Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Man Who Never Was, The (1956)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng…
- Riveting adaptation of Ewen Montagu's book about the true story of a British Navy commander's involvement in a tricky scheme to fool the Nazis, by…
Moby Dick (1956)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart
- Celebrated version of Herman Melville's classic novel, about a whaler obsessively pursuing the whale that bit off his leg, is flawed but brilliantly…
Mohawk (1956)
- Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. Scott Brady, Rita Gam
- White men playing Indians is typical of this hokey affair, which is about as ethnically sensitive as Adolf Hitler. In retrospect, though, it's a…
Naughty Girl (Cette Sacree Gamine) (1956)
- Dir. Michel Boisrond
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Francoise Fabian
- A con–artist father leaves his devious minx of a daughter in the hands of a performer who discovers the girl is bent on disrupting his life the…
Pardners (1956)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Agnes Moorehead
- Comic–partners Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis saddle–up for a jaunt in the Old West.
Please Murder Me (Please Murder Me!) (1956)
- Dir. Peter Godfrey
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran…
- Raymond Burr and Angela Lansbury square off in this tough–minded noir about a lawyers who successfully defends his client only to discover…
Plucking the Daisy (Mademoiselle Striptease) (1956)
- Dir. Roger Vadim
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Roger Vadim
- One of the Brigitte Bardot/Roger Vadim light comedies that relies on Bardot's charms rather more than the simple story of a smalltown woman who is…
Private's Progress (1956)
- Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas…
- Popular Ealing war satire finds Ian Carmichael, as the film’s spotty college freshman, conscripted to military service where he’s whipped into…
Reach for the Sky (1956)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More
- British WW2 favourite tells the courageous true story of pilot Douglas Bader who overcame the amputation of both legs to miraculously continue his…
Red Balloon, The (Ballon Rouge, Le) (1956)
- Dir. Albert Lamorisse
- Classic French short that still manages to captivate audiences with its simple premise of a young Parisian boy who discovers a red balloon with a…