Subgenre Sampler
: 25144 Films to Buy & Rent
Hancock's Half Hour (1957-1961)
- Feat. Tony Hancock, Sid James, Dick Emery…
- Tony Hancock's hilarious and influential 50s/ 60s sitcom:
On DVD, two compilations.
On Vol 1, the earliest surviving episodes, all from 1957:…
Haunted Strangler, The (1957)
- Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Boris Karloff
- Jekyll–and–Hyde variation with criminologist Boris Karloff delving into a serial–murder case for which he suspects the wrong man…
Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series) (1957)
- Feat. Richard Boone, Hal Needham
- Popular classic Western series about the adventures of professional gunfighter Paladin and his manservant Hey Boy.
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr
- Kerr and Mitchum play a nun and Marine sergeant respectively, who are stranded on a desert island during WWII – the island happens to also be…
Hell Drivers (Hard Drivers) (1957)
- Dir. Cy Endfield
Feat. Patrick McGoohan, Sir Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom…
- Stanley Baker plays a hard–nosed trucker forced to take on a dangerous long haul, through which a bitter rivalry develops with a fellow driver…
Hellcats of the Navy (1957)
- Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Arthur Franz…
- WW2 submarine actioner that is chiefly remembered as the only film to star both Ronald Reagan and his future wife Nancy Davis. Storywise this…
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
- Dir. Herbert Strock
Feat. Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton
- Campy drive–in classic about a mad scientist who pulls a teen from a car wreck and 'repairs' him. Best seen as a double feature with 'Teenage…
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
- Dir. Gene Fowler Jnr.
Feat. Michael Landon
- A cool Michael Landon scored a big hit in his film debut – a hilarious mishmash of horror and juvenile delinquency dramas.
Il Grido (The Outcry) (1957)
- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair
- This lesser–known work from Antonioni provides a missing link between Italian neorealism and the director's later works like L'AVVENTURA,…
Ill Met By Moonlight (1957)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley
- Conventional WW2 flick focused on a group of Resistance fighters in German occupied Crete who hatch a plan to kidnap the head of the German army.…