A comedy thriller starring John Slater in the title role as a gormless lorry driver accused of murdering an attractive hitchhiker he picked up. He…
Browsing: Movies 1956
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Racetrack dogsbody Willie Joy (Frankie Howerd) loses his job at the greyhound stadium, acquires a sick greyhound and is thrown out of his lodgings. He…
Pugnacious publicity agent Bert Lane (Ronald Shiner) approaches wealthy Mrs Anstey (Jean Cadell) for funds to market a new cleaning gadget – the “Demon” -…
This accomplished thriller based on Lionel White’s novel Clean Break was Stanley Kubrick’s third feature. Aged 27, he had made only Fear and Desire and Killer’s Kiss…
The King and I was another lavish Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, this time based on Anna Leonowens’ autobiographical novel Anna and The King of Siam. Originally a…
Early in his career, Elvis Presley realised that if he wanted to promote all his records, he would have to stop doing exhausting concert tours.…
The tormented life of the painter Vincent Van Gogh, from his days in the coal mining region of Belgium to his suicide at Auvers-Sur-Oise, is…
James Stewart plays an American doctor – on holiday in Morocco with his family – who accidentally learns of a political assassination to take place…
In 1840, a young sailor joins the whaling ship Pequod, whose captain, Ahab, is obsessively searching for the monstrous white whale that took off his…
A team of explorers, led by Dr Roger Bentley (John Agar) and Dr Jud Bellamin (Hugh Beaumont) discover a race of strange creatures living beneath…
Valerie Carr (Anna Neagle) is a widow and the secretary to the editor of a women’s magazine. She is devoted to her two daughters, 17-year-old…
Shapely red-headed Pamela Muir (Rhonda Fleming), a veterinarian from Pittsburgh, travels to Kenya to work with big-game hunter Steve Stratton (Macdonald Carey) who collects animals…
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis appear here in their second-last movie together as handsome Western troubadour Slim Moseley (Martin) and doltish rich-kid Wade Kingsley (Lewis),…
Wealthy Investment Counselor Jessica Warren (Merle Oberon) is involved in a hit-and-run car accident and eventually stops to call the police and turn herself in.…
Upper-class innocent Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) has to interrupt his cloistered university education when he is called up in 1942 and sent to Gravestone Camp.…
In 1465, Scottish knight Quentin Durward (Robert Taylor with an accent which is all wrong for the part) travels to France to meet Isabelle, Countess…
1 9 5 6 (UK) 8 x 18 minute episodes Produced by Merton Park Studios for the Children’s Film Foundation, this eight-part serial for children was…
Lancashire publican Bill Ramsbottom (Arthur Askey) inherits a saloon and some land with uranium deposits from his grandfather, Wild Bill Ramsbottom, who lived the cowboy…
While many of Hollywood’s tales about heroism during the Second World War were tainted by smug patriotism and unwelcome sentiment, postwar British cinema tended to…
In this low-budget, 77-minute movie, disc jockey Alan Freed discovers a rock band in a village in the faraway hills and promotes them in New…