In ancient times, the Mongolian warlord Temujin (John Wayne) must do battle against the rival tribe that killed his father. The battles pale in comparison…
Browsing: Movies 1956
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Hyperkinetic funnyman Danny Kaye turned his antics to spoofing Arthurian films in the 1956 classic The Court Jester. Switching personalities as deftly as he shuffled his…
Quickie follow-up to the enormously successful Rock Around The Clock (1956), also featuring the granddaddy of rock’n’roll – Bill Haley and his Comets. There’s great period value in…
In the Cornish village of Fowey lives Albert Pascoe (Donald Houston), a young fisherman who sometimes indulges in his favourite pastime of poaching. One day…
Newlywed research scientist hero Dr Russell Marvin (Hugh Marlowe, back in the nation’s capital after surviving The Day the Earth Stood Still ) tries to…
A team of five astronauts from Earth – commanded by Luther Blair (American actor Anthony Dexter) – land on the 13th moon of Saturn to…
A member of the notorious Checker gang, whose face is never shown, breaks out of prison and kills a farmer (John Agar), stealing his long barreled…
A lot of young science-fiction fans think that the genre began with Star Trek and Star Wars (1977). However, the 1950s produced a vast array of classics that defined…
A train carriage carrying no-nonsense American reporter Mike Wilson (Paul Douglas) and his stiff-upper-lip English photographer, Howard Meade (Leslie Phillips), is accidentally decoupled from the…
Edna Ferber specialised in writing sprawling family sagas, several of them set in the West. Her 1930 novel Cimarron was twice filmed by Hollywood, as was the…
Ever since his youth, Harry Hawkins (Alastair Sim) has been an assassin. He had started with the removal of a hated headmaster (an easy matter…
There are three men in the life of icy, spoiled Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly). The first is CK Dexter-Haven (Bing Crosby) – or “Dex” -…
This low-budget black-and-white effort from British Lion Films is a grim and gritty tale about a patrol of British soldiers on a reconnaissance mission in…
Gigolo gambler Steve Wiley (Dean Martin) cheats movie buff Malcolm Smith (Jerry Lewis) when he wins a car in a raffle, claiming that he won…
Charles “Butcher” Benton (Lon Chaney Jr.) is executed in the electric chair at San Quentin, cursing the three men who double-crossed him following a payroll…
Fuelled by paranoia and dripping with low-key terror, Invasion of the Body Snatchers put the fear of pod into audiences across the world. Based on Jack Finney’s…
Captain Vinka Kovalenko (Katharine Hepburn) – a serious-minded and officious female pilot from the Soviet Union – defects to the West because of the way…
Dr Tom Anderson (Lee Van Cleef) makes contact with a Venusian via his radio transmitter and guides it to Earth, unaware that the creature wants…
The boys and girls of the Upper Sixth at Angel Hill Grammar School are practising hard for the National Festival of School Orchestras. Their popular…
Directed by Don McGuire, Johnny Concho was the very first film produced by Frank Sinatra’s production company (Kent Productions) and the singer’s first foray into…