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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Confidential Report (Mr. Arkadin) (1955)- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori… - A typically Welles–ian shaggy dog story, with Welles himself playing a possibly insane, Kane–like billionaire, who hires a detective to…
Daddy Long Legs (1955)- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore… - An orphaned French teenager (Caron) endears herself to a playboy sophisticate (Astaire), who secretly sponsors her in an American private education.…
Desperate Hours, The (1955)- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy… - A bunch of escaped convicts, led by Bogart, hold a family hostage in this domestic noir thriller based on the Broadway play by Joseph Hayes.…
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