William Darling (Frankie Howerd), the popular and indispensable hall porter at London’s Royal Connaught Hotel, inherits a fortune (£10,000). After a spree on the French…
Browsing: Movies 1956
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While other films of the time were banned and condemned by the Catholic Church because of nudity, this Mexican Eastmancolor film was given an “A-3″…
An epic account of the young prince whose military conquests unified the civilised world in the fourth century BC. Alexander (Richard Burton), son of Philip…
Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson star in this predictable soap opera about pleasant and wealthy middle-class widow, Cary Scott (Wyman) who marries her gardener, Ron…
A charming drama set in Paris in 1928. Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming…
Roger Vadim created a scandal with his first film, And God Created Woman, which starred his young wife, Brigitte Bardot. The eroticism and nudity in the…
A splendid, charming film version of Jules Verne’s magnificent travelogue with spectacular sketches from various parts of the world and scores of cameos from an…
Fragile Fox is an American rifle company occupying a town in Belgium near the frontline in the closing days of WWII. They are commanded by…
One of the best of Tennessee Williams’s steamy southern dramas about mendacity under the magnolias, this rare, seldom-revived movie classic is a welcome treasure. Shot…
Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) has the adults in her life completely fooled, but when her uncontrolled hellishness leads her to murder schoolmate Claude Daigle in…
In the autumn of 1939, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee – the pride of the German Navy – commands the Atlantic, preying on…
Set in Mexico, The Beast of Hollow Mountain is for the most part the story of Texan cattle rancher Jimmy Ryan (Guy Madison) and his…
The very finest of Nicholas Ray’s films is a brilliant expressionist melodrama that used the then-topical controversy over the discovery and deployment of the “wonder…
This Technicolor movie from Paramount Pictures – a re-make of Barbara Stanwyck’s The Lady Eve – starred George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor and David Niven. Gobel…
US State Department agent Kent Foster (Richard Travis) is on the trail of murderous traitor Nick Randall (Jim Davis) – who has been living in…
Based on a true story, The Brave One chronicled the unusual friendship between a Mexican boy and his adopted bull. It was an interesting spin on the…
This was the film that proved Marilyn Monroe was a considerable screen actress, and capable of much, much more than her sexpot image indicated. Whether…
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s brilliant stage musical came to the big screen in 1956 with Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae in the lead roles. Pretty, innocent…
Already a phenomenally successful entertainer and stalwart of the London Palladium, in 1956, Max Bygraves headed an accomplished cast in this musical drama charting the…
With her mother in the hospital and her father (Stanley Baker) on the run, 11-year-old Elizabeth (Mandy Miller) is sent to live with her sniffy…
