Subgenre Sampler
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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…
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.…