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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Bolshoi Ballet - Romeo and Juliet (1955)- The Bolshoi Ballet presents Sergei Prokofiev's interpretation of Shakespeare's play. Features the daning talents of Galina Ulanova. Narrated in…
Bride of the Monster (1955)- Dir. Ed Wood Jnr.
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson - Mad scientist Bela Lugosi and hulking monster Tor Johnson abduct passers–by in a scheme to create a super–race. Super–bad acting,…
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…
Conquest Of Space (1955)- Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy - Technicolor space adventure that redeems some of its contrived script with whimsical special effects.
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.…
Doctor at Sea (1955)- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot - Dirk Bogarde is once again the eligible MD, in this entertaining second entry in the series taken from Richard Gordon's novels. The crushing boredom…
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