Subgenre Sampler
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Lone Ranger, The (1956)
- Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Lyle Bettger…
- Modest but proficient movie spinoff from the popular 1950s TV series, with the masked one (Moore) and Tonto (Silverheels) taking on a rancher who is…
Man Escaped, A (1956)
- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Francois Leterrier
- Bresson's films are all extremely controlled in style: no suspense, no histrionics, flat acting, spare and simple camerawork, yet this is an…
Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The (1956)
- Dir. Nunnally Johnson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March…
- Adapted from the novel by Sloan Wilson, this powerful drama evokes the multiple crises of an Madison Avenue advertising executive (Peck), whose…
Man in the Vault (1956)
- Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. William Campbell, Berry Kroeger, Karen Sharpe
- Tommy Dancer is an ordinary man thrust into an extraordinary situation – a locksmith forced into a heist by a ruthless mobster and his…
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Doris Day
- Hitchcock remakes his 1934 film and generally comes up trumps with James Stewart and Doris Day as the innocent victims of international espionage.…
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…
Mole People, The (1956)
- Dir. Virgil W. Vogel
Feat. John Agar, Hugh Beaumont
- Silly sci–fi fun, about a group of archeologists who discover an ancient underground civilisation – some of whose residents bear…
Mystery of Picasso, The (1956)
- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Famed director Henri–Georges Clouzot gains exclusive entry into Pablo Picasso's inner creative sanctum, observing the master painter at work on…