Subgenre Sampler
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My Sister Eileen (1955)
- Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Janet Leigh
- Charming if not modest retread of the "brains vs. beauty" dilemma sees on–screen sisters Janet Leigh and Betty Garrett jostle for the affection…
Napoleon (1955)
- Dir. Sacha Guitry
Feat. Daniel Gelin, Raymond Pellegrin, Yves Montand…
- A somewhat farcical film that suffers from being dubbed into English, over–narration, and the attempt to give a complete account of Napoleon's…
Night My Number Came Up, The (1955)
- Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox…
- A prophetic nightmare about an ill–fated plane flight begins to play out as reality for 13 passengers aboard a British military aircraft in…
Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
- Dir. Charles Laughton
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
- A disturbing yet poetic masterpiece in which Robert Mitchum is mighty mean as a psychopathic preacher pursuing two runaways across the American…
Not As A Stranger (1955)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra…
- Undemanding medical drama notable for being Kramer's directorial debut and for its abundance of big stars in small roles.
Mitchum plays against…
Nuit et Broulliard (Night and Fog) (1955)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
- Haunting, influential doco on the Nazi concentration camps investigates the ways in which images of past events cause guilt for those in the present,…
Oklahoma! (1955)
- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson…
- Ground–breaking Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, includes many classic numbers.
One Desire (1955)
- Dir. Jerry Hopper
Feat. Anne Baxter, Rock Hudson, Julie Adams
- Old–fashioned romantic melodrama set in the early 1900's, following the fate of a star–crosses Oklahoma gambler–casino dealer and a…
Ordet (1955)
- Dir. Carl Dreyer
- Hailed by many critics as dir. Dreyer's masterpiece, this deep exploration of the true meaning of Christianity, set in rural Denmark, will repay the…
Otto Preminger Director's Collection, The (The Man With the Golden Arm, The Cardinal, The Human Factor) (1955-1979)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
- Further trifecta of Otto Preminger films.