Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
- Dir. Jack Webb
Feat. Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien…
- Musical set in 1920's Kansas which blends jazz, gangsters and political corruption.
Directed by and starring Jack Webb as a cornet player who is…
Picnic (1955)
- Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Kim Novak, Cliff Robertson, William Holden…
- Epitome of the 50s smalltown melodrama has the sultry Kim Novak relieved of boyfriend Cliff Robertson and the general Mid–West tedium, by…
Quatermass II (TV Series) (1955)
- Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. John Robinson
- Professor Quatermass returns (this time palyed by John Robinson) in Nigel Kneale's popular sci–fi serial of the 1950s.
The six–part…
Quatermass Xperiment, The (The Creeping Unknown) (1955)
- Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner
- Effective Hammer Films feature adaptation of the 1953 BBC sci–fi TV serial written by Nigel Kneale, in which an astronaut mysteriously returns…
Queen Bee (1955)
- Dir. Ranald MacDougall
Feat. Joan Crawford
- Archetypal glamour–bitch Joan Crawford is deliciously hammy as a compulsive socialite who brings destruction to an blue–blooded Southern…
Ray Harryhausen: Special Edition Collection (1955-1977)
- It Came From Beneath The Sea
Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
Mysterious Island
Jason and the Argonauts
The 7th Voyage of…
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
- James Dean's intense portayal of an alienated youth from a wealthy family opened the eyes of a generation and catapulted him to stardom. One of the…
Revenge of the Creature (1955)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield…
- Follow–up to the cult hit CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, with poor, harassed Gill Man captured in the Amazon this time round and brought back…
Rififi (1955)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Jean Servais, Jules Dassin, Magali Noel…
- The French reclaim film noir with this methodical and stylish heist movie, famous for its 35 minute real–time bank robbery, executed in virtual…
Robin Hood: The Movie (1955-1991)
- Dir. Ralph Smart, Terence Fisher
Feat. Richard Greene, Leo McKern
- A feature film colourized and edited in 1991 from episodes 1,2,3,5,8 & 27 of the 1955 TV Series. Notably, Will Scatlock who dies at the end of…