Browsing: Movies 1957

12 Angry Men is the most probing, incisive, and penetrating look into the hearts and minds of a jury that has ever been filmed. Sidney Lumet…

An American rocket returning from the first manned space flight to Venus crashes into the sea near Sicily. One of the crew members is killed,…

This quite extraordinary anti-communist tract masquerades as naive science fiction. An alien (Arnold Moss) transports five people from five different countries on Earth to his…

This Hammer production was released in the US as The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas and featured ‘token’ American actor Forrest Tucker, whose value to the…

Rod Steiger is Carl Schaffner, a crooked German-born businessman on the run from Scotland Yard and the FBI after embezzling £3 million in company funds.…

Lord Loam (Cecil Parker) is a peer of one of England’ stately homes who takes his three daughters on a yachting cruise with a few…

US Army Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Manning (Glenn Langan) is exposed to radiation after a plutonium bomb test in Nevada and mutates into a giant -…

Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr star in this syrupy sob story, which is actually a remake by director Leo McCarey of his own 1939 movie Love…

American singing sensation Bobby Denver ‘the crying crooner’ (whose tearful singing technique has a traumatic effect on females, schoolgirls and little old ladies alike) arrives…

A group of scientists gather on a deserted Pacific island to study the effects of nuclear fallout. The group is uneasy since a similar group…

Newspaper photojournalist Audrey Ames (Peggie Castle) stumbles upon the town of Ludlow in Illinois, which has been inexplicably destroyed with all its population missing presumed…

Alan Ladd stars as Kansas soldier-turned-cattle driver Chad Morgan, battling the elements and corrupt cattle buyers to build a railroad spur to the Rio Grande…

The ever-popular tale was given a new twist in Blood Of Dracula by being set in a girls’ school. Nancy (Sandra Harrison), an aggressive pupil at an…

This sequel to The Belles of St Trinian’s (1954) finds headmistress, Miss Fritton (Alastair Sim) doing a short stretch under lock and key in one…

Absent-minded boffin Professor Hasdane (Tony Quinn) invents a booby trap fountain pen packed with a revolutionary new explosive that is detonated by the sound of…

Nuclear physicist Steve March (John Agar) and his colleague Dan Murphy (Robert Fuller) visit a remote location to investigate unusual radioactivity. A blinding light kills…

This superb war drama is distinguished by magnificent acting and direction and an out-of-the-ordinary approach to its subject. In early 1943, British military prisoners are…

Eddie Rico (Richard Conte) has been the book-keeper of an important Mafia boss but now he is an honest merchant and lives with his family…

Replete with thrilling outdoors action, rugged portrayals and magnificent scenic backgrounds photographed in Eastman Color, this is one of the best Rank films in terms…

This was the classic that single-handedly revived traditional British Gothic and firmly placed the Hammer House of Horror on the global gore map. Peter Cushing…