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Subgenre Sampler
Artists and Models (1955)
- Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley Maclaine… - Bubbly, brain–addled comedy with comic–artist Dean Martin getting his ideas from roommate Jerry Lewis’ wild nocturnal mutterings. Rated…
Atomic Kid, The (1955)- Dir. Leslie Martinson
Feat. Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss - Mickey Rooney becomes radioactive after bumbling into a nuclear test–site. Minor comedy, the first credit for Blake Edwards (as writer).
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin… - An unflappable Spencer Tracy arrives in a desolate town to investigate a dormant missing–persons report, but the surly locals don't take to…
Battle Cry (1955)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Aldo Ray… - Entertaining WWII yarn concerning a squad of American marines romancing and training (in Paekakariki, New Zealand!) before heading off to action in…
Big Combo, The (1955)- Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Feat. Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy - Late period film noir borders on parody, with light and dialogue straight out of some parallel universe. Untouchables–style story has some…
Big Knife, The (1955)- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Rod Steiger… - Lurid expose of the Hollywood 'studio system' from the melodramatic pen of playwright Clifford Odets. Palance shows a rare vulnerability as a…
Blackboard Jungle, The (1955)- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow - Famously controversial on release and first of the 'Rock–n–roll' films, this lifted the lid on the heated youth tensions in 50s America.…
Bob Le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler) (1955)- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corney - Superb French noir from the dir. of LE SAMOURAI, here debuting with a taut plan to rob the Deauville casino, that grows ever more perilous for…
Cockleshell Heroes (1955)- Dir. Jose Ferrer
Feat. Jose Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley… - Fictionalised account of Operation Frankton, a British canoe–borne raid on Bordeaux Harbour during WWII.
Colditz Story, The (1955)- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes - A compulsive and tightly wound prison yarn, set around the supposedly unescapable German POW camp. Britisher John Mills unites prisoners of various…
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