Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3628 Films to Buy & Rent
Star in the Dust (1956)
- Dir. Charles Haas
Feat. John Agar, Richard Boone, Mamie Van Doren…
- Psychological western with Agar as a sheriff caught between farmers and cattlemen who disagree the impending execution of a gunman.
Teahouse of the August Moon, The (1956)
- Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo…
- Dated culture clash comedy with Glenn Ford as an American GI charged with teaching democracy to the inhabitants of a small Japanese…
Ten Commandments, The (1956)
- Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter…
- The director remakes his 1923 silent epic with improved results and Charlton Heston as Moses, who battles the odds to lead the Israelites to the…
The Buccaneers (1956)
- Dir. C.M. Pennington-Richards
Feat. Robert Shaw, Peter Hammond, Paul Hansard
- Frisky frolics on the high seas with Robert Shaw as a former pirate pardoned by the English King and now given to policing the Caribbean
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Bennett
- Resolute Sirk melodrama tugs at the heartstrings of a disenchanted family man whose chance encounter with an old–flame compels his children to…
Three Worlds of Jacques Cousteau, The (The Silent World, World Without Sun, Voyage to the Edge of the World) (1956-1976)
- Dir. Jacques Cousteau, Louis Malle
- A trilogy of award–winning documentary feature films from famed oceanogragher, Jacques Cousteau.
The Silent World (1956) won the Palm D'Or…
Trapeze (1956)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida…
- Surprisingly well–realised drama, which sets a love–triangle (Lancaster, Curtis, Lollobrigida) in the world of European circus…
Unguarded Moment, The (1956)
- Dir. Harry Keller
Feat. Esther Williams, George Nader, John Saxon…
- Film noir with MGM star Esther Williams playing a High School music teacher and unmarried 'career woman' who is targeted by a stalker.
Although…
Walk the Proud Land (1956)
- Dir. Jesse Hibbs
Feat. Audie Murphy, Anne Bancroft, Charles Drake
- Considered one of Audie Murphy's best Westerns, based on the true story of an Indian agent who is sent to try a new approach to peace with the…
War and Peace (1956)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda
- In treating Tolstoy's literary sprawl, Hollywood pinned its hopes on a high–profile cast and extravagant battle sequences to redeem a…