The world has been devastated by nuclear war. In a valley that is protected by mountains lined with lead ore, former Naval Intelligence Officer Captain…
Browsing: Movies 1955
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One year after the highly successful Doctor In The House, Dirk Bogarde returned as the hapless medic Doctor Simon Sparrow. Now a qualified doctor, Sparrow…
Caleb and Aron Trask are brothers living in Salinas Valley with their father in 1917. Their father is very religious, and while Aron is the…
The storyline of this classic British comedy film follows two friendly yet intensely competitive couples competing in the famous annual London-to-Brighton vintage car rally. Buttoned-up lawyer…
Geordie MacTaggart (played by Paul Young as a child and Bill Travers as an adult) spends his Highland childhood – most of it in the…
“In 1906, the Thaw-White murder case rocked America. Because it involved a man of great consequence, another of great wealth, and a girl of extraordinary…
Guys & Dolls is pretty much the most foolproof of the great musicals. For one thing, it was adapted from the eternally hilarious stories of Broadway’s…
Written, produced and directed by Hugo Haas, Hold Back Tomorrow stars Cleo Moore as Dora Garben, a prostitute who is chosen at random to visit…
Betty Grable’s virtual adieu to the movies after a 25-year career, and while the Rock milieu might not be her precise cup of tea, to…
After an encounter at sea with an unknown underwater creature stalking an “atomic” submarine, Commander Matthews (Kenneth Tobey) of the US Navy works with scientists…
It’s June 1953 and two children from Dorset – John (Colin Gibson) and Julie (Lesley Dudley) – are eager to see the Coronation of Queen…
Director Carol Reed’s first colour film is a lively theatrical presentation all about working-class hopes and dreams. Released in 1955, A Kid For Two Farthings was filmed…
Kiss Me Deadly is the blackest of film noir movies – a masterpiece wrenched by director Robert Aldrich and screenwriter A I Bezzerides from Mickey Spillane’s trash…
Walt Disney’s first full-length cartoon in Cinemascope is a triumph for all ages. The story of a romance between a dainty, well-bred pedigree cocker spaniel…
A wonderful Ealing comedy with a great performance by British actress Katie Johnson, then well into her seventies, who plays Louisa Wilberforce – an old…
The arrival of widescreen cinema in the early 1950s brought about a new golden age of the ancient world epic. The very first CinemaScope production…
For 50 years, Marty Maher (played here by Tyrone Power) served the US Army as an athletic instructor and trainer at the United States Military…
Bill Brown (Arthur Askey) and Wally Binns (Glenn Melvyn) are a pair of football-mad railway men. Bill has misplaced £55 of union money, his son…
Love Me or Leave Me is a powerful MGM musical that established Doris Day as a first-rate dramatic actress with an impressive emotional range. This…
This 1955 film from Paramount Pictures is an example of a near-defunct genre once called, disparagingly, “a woman’s picture,” though in retrospect that means nothing…