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Hancock's Half HourHancock'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, TheHaunted 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)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. AllisonHeaven 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 DriversHell 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 NavyHellcats 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 FrankensteinI 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 WerewolfI Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) Recommended
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 GridoIl 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 MoonlightIll 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.…

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