Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)- Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Alastair Sim… - Particularly raucous installment of the popular naughty schoolgirl series; this time their behaviour gets the headmistress thrown in jail and the…
Boy on a Dolphin (1957)- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Alan Ladd, Sophia Loren, Clifton Webb… - Greek picaresque with Sophia Loren as a diver who catches the scent of ancient sunken treasure. Mainly memorable for the actress's drenched figure…
Brain from Planet Arous (1957)- Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller - Cheesy 'killer–B' in which a bad alien brain inhabits the body of a small–town scientist and a good alien brain that inhabits the body of…
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins - Another rousing, grand scale production from director Lean, about a group of British POW's employed by the Japanese to build a bridge, while their…
Brothers Karamazov, The (1957)- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom… - A sumptuous Hollywood version of Dostoyevsky's classic novel of Czarist Russia. Centred around Karamazov (Cobb) and his four disparate offspring,…
China Gate (1957)- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson - In 1954, during the French Indochina War, an Eurasian female smuggler and a group of French Foreign Legion mercenaries, infiltrate the enemy…
Cranes are Flying, The (Letyat Zhuravli) (1957)- Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
Feat. Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksei Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev - A Russian classic which conveys homefront anxieties during WW2 for a young bride whose original fiance has gone to the front. Pursued by his…
Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957)- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee - The first true Hammer gothic horror and number one in the Frankenstein series bringing together the fantastic talents of Cushing (as the Baron) and…
Curse of the Demon (Night of the Demon) (1957)- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis… - Classy occult thriller survives its big reputation through an intelligent script and controlled sense of menace. Dana Andrews' cynical professor…
Decision at Sundown (1957)- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele… - Another fruitful Boetticher/Scott collaboration is the grimmest of the lot with Scott on the trail of the man who drove his wife to suicide.
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