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Subgenre Sampler
Interlude (1957)- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch… - June Allyson falls for the charms of a married European conductor while being courted by a Munich doctor. One of Sirk's weaker melodramas, this was…
Le Notti Bianche (White Nights) (1957)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Jean Marais… - A departure from neo–realist beginnings, this surreal Visconti masterwork adapts Dostoyevsky’s ‘White Nights’ through dreamlike art…
Les Miserables (1957)- Dir. Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Feat. Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Daniele Delorme… - Adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel with Jean Gabin playing the peasant who is jailed for stealing a loaf of bread in 19th century France. A faithful…
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier - Dark horse Audrey Hepburn classic sees dir. Billy Wilder riff Ernst Lubitsch by way of Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier (a wall fixture of…
Lower Depths, The (Donzoko) (1957)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Isuzu Yamada… - Arresting Maxim Gorky stage adaptation (previously filmed by Jean Renoir) is transposed to Japan’s Edo–era slums. Social realisms and the…
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)- Dir. Joseph Pevney
Feat. James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer - James Cagney moulds his ‘dirty face’ into the many classic horror personas of actor Lon Chaney Jr, in this liberal biopic of the actor’s…
Nights of Cabiria (1957)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Giulietta Masina - Giulietta Masina is marvelous as a waifish prostitute dreaming of a rich, wonderful life but always finding sorrow. Tragicomic masterpiece won an…
Paths of Glory (1957)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou… - Kubrick's muscular drama deals frankly with the hypocrisy and inhumanity of military ethics, based on a true incident in WWI France. Following a…
Peyton Place (1957)- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Lee Philips… - A cheesy classic based on the mega–seller, weaving almost any domestic scandal you can think of into a compelling melodrama. Followed by a TV…
Pride and the Passion, The (1957)- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren… - A solemn epic set around Napoleon's campaign in Spain in the early 19th century – the cast doing their sincere best with a fairly passionless…
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