Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Tight Spot (1955)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith…
- Tense crime melodrama in which Ginger Rogers is persuaded by attorney Edward G. Robinson to testify against her gangster boyfriend.
To Hell and Back (1955)
- Dir. Jesse Hibbs
Feat. Audie Murphy
- Unique war film presents Audie Murphy in his own real–life story as the most decorated US Soldier during WW2.
To Paris with Love (1955)
- Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray…
- Widowed aristocrat Guinness takes his estranged son to Paris where romantic entanglements await. Tepid romantic comedy fails to rise to the standard…
Trouble with Harry, The (1955)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. John Forsythe, Shirley Maclaine
- The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and the townspeople, including a young John Forsyth and Shirley Maclaine, don't quite know how to deal with…
Violent Men, The (1955)
- Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Glenn Ford, Edward G. Robinson…
- Barbara Stanwyck, Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson transform a standard conflict of the land into a notable diversion.
Violent Saturday (1955)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally…
- Crisp southern noir in which a bank robbery gone wrong ignites trouble in amongst the morally corrupt citizens of a small town. Ripping dialogue and…
Virgin Queen, The (1955)
- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Bette Davis
- Bette Davis is in full flight playing Queen Liz I, for the second time. Quality Hollywood.
We're No Angels (1955)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov…
- Moderately interesting Hollywood comedy concerns three convicts (Bogart, Ray and Ustinov) who escape from Devils Island and have to transform into…
White Feather (1955)
- Dir. Robert D. Webb
Feat. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, John Lund…
- Superior liberal western, scripted by Delmer Dawes, concerns the surrender of the last Cheyenne warriors to the U.S. government.
Though Wagner…
3 Coins in the Fountain (Three Coins in the Fountain) (1954)
- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters…
- Likeable, but modest classic in which three women throw coins into the Fountain of Trevi in Rome, to try their romantic luck. Great tourist locales…