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…
Browsing: Movies 1957
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Inspired by the 1947 stage play Off the Record by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall, Carry On Admiral – which, despite its title and director,…
Crazy old Edmund Brandt (Ernest Milton) firmly believes that a family curse has resulted in his soul entering the body of a blood-lusting leopard. Hoping…
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…
Lovely Susan Winter (Gloria Talbott) engages pilot Lee Brand (Tom Drake) and organises an expedition deep into the wilds of Mexico in the hope of…
A catastrophic volcanic eruption in the South Pacific creates a chain reaction that causes icebergs to crumble at the North Pole, freeing a gigantic praying…
After 16 films with actor/singer Dean Martin, comedian Joseph Levitch, alias Jerry Lewis (then aged 30), thankfully decided to go it alone. New York policeman…
Desk Set starred Katharine Hepburn as Bunny Watson, the head of the library of the Federal Broadcasting Network. The television station is bringing in an efficiency-boosting…
The third in the Doctor series of films sees Dr Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) back at St Swithin’s where he loses out to the self-important…
Louise Blake (Fay Spain) loves hot cars but her parents don’t. She likes wealthy, existential hot-rodder Fred Armstrong (John Ashley) but her parents don’t. After…
In 1955, an hour-long live television play called A Man Is Ten Feet Tall was broadcast on Philco Television Playhouse with Sidney Poitier starring as…
A US destroyer and a German U-Boat clash in the South Atlantic during World War II in a game of lethal stalking, each trying to…
Frederick Henry (Rock Hudson), an American serving as a volunteer ambulance driver with the Italian forces in the First World War, is wounded and falls…
When it came to playing tough, cynical dames, few actresses could equal Barbara Stanwyck, who hit her peak as Arizona ranch owner Jessica Drummond in this…
On the South Seas island of Kalai, the chief’s son Kimo (Gregg Palmer) is wrongly accused of the murder of his father by the real…
Audrey Hepburn stars in her first screen musical (and did all her own singing) alongside the doyen of dance, 57-year-old Fred Astaire, who is still…
This rock ‘n’ roll comedy starring Tom Ewell and the pneumatic Jayne Mansfield is witty, stylish, clever and (by today’s standards) extraordinarily sexist. Tom Miller…
This thriller from Universal-International was based on the assumption that Joseph Stalin’s funeral was actually that of a double and that the tyrant himself escaped…
John Sturges’s staging of the famous battle between Wyatt Earp and the Clanton gang in Tombstone, Arizona, on 26 October 1881, was not the first…
In the South Pacific in 1944, US Marine Corporal Allison (Robert Mitchum) and his recon party are disembarking from a submarine when they are spotted…