1957 movies

Men in War (1957)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan, Robert | Ray, Aldo | Keith, Robert | Pine, Phillip | Persoff, Nehemiah | Morrow, Vic | Edwards, James | Jones, L.Q. | Marlowe, Scott | Kennedy, Adam | Gentry, Race | Kelley, Walter | Ray, Anthony | Normand, Robert | Miller, Michael
Directors: Mann, Anthony
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In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson’s platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring for his catatonic colonel. Benson and Montana can’t stand each other, but together they must get the survivors to Hill 465, where they hope the division is waiting. It’s a long, harrowing march, fraught with all the dangers the elusive enemy can summon. Who will survive?

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK
Actors: Cushing, Peter | Court, Hazel | Urquhart, Robert | Lee, Christopher | Hayes, Melvyn | Gaunt, Valerie | Hardtmuth, Paul | Hood, Noel | Johnson, Fred | Kingston, Claude | Gallier, Alex | Mulcaster, Michael | Leigh, Andrew | Blake, Ann | Walsh, Sally
Directors: Fisher, Terence
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After all his family has died, young and rich Baron Victor Frankenstein finds himself a teacher, Paul Krempe. Over the years, their relationship switches from teacher-pupil to research colleagues. Their specific interest lies in life itself. After resurrecting a dead puppy, Paul Krempe sees the monstrosity of their experiments and decides to quit working on those projects. But as Elizabeth, Victor’s Cousin arrives to marry him, Paul stays in the house to protect her. Victor gets more and more obsessed with his work and starts building a man who is supposed to be a superior being. He even kills to get a proper brain. After a little accident the brain gets damaged, and when the creature is resurrected, it does not behave in a superior manner. In the course of events, Victor has chambermaid Justine killed by his creature. This is the sign for Paul Krempe to stop Victor’s madness. He has to turn against his old student and friend.

The Affairs of Julie (1957)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Comedy
Countries: West Germany
Actors: Pulver, Liselotte | Hubschmid, Paul | Wicki, Bernhard | Lukschy, Wolfgang | Kaiser, Roland | Platte, Rudolf | Finck, Werner | Linder, Erwin | Carlsen, Traute | Peltzer, Gisela | Franck, Peter | Schaufuss, Hans Hermann | Sebaldt, Maria | Hediger, Marianne
Directors: Käutner, Helmut
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Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner’s closest friend and from then on things become very complicated…

Quand la femme s’en mêle (1957)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime
Countries: France | Italy | West Germany
Actors: Feuillère, Edwige | Servais, Jean | Blier, Bernard | Mondy, Pierre | Daumier, Sophie | Roberts, Pascale | Debucourt, Jean | Lefebvre, Jean | Delon, Alain | Barbulée, Madeleine | Cogan, Henri | Cremer, Bruno | Darnis, Annie | Hahn, Jess | Jourdan, Michel
Directors: Allégret, Yves
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Henri Godot, the owner of a night-club in Paris. He calls to the young hitman, Jo to kill his rival Boby, who intrigues with his lover, Maine.

Old Yeller (1957)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: McGuire, Dorothy | Parker, Fess | York, Jeff | Connors, Chuck | Washburn, Beverly | Kirk, Tommy | Corcoran, Kevin
Directors: Stevenson, Robert
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Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860’s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog. After a series of scrapes involving raccoons, snakes, bears and all manner of animals, Travis grows to love and respect Old Yeller, who comes to have a profound effect on the boy’s life.

The Abominable Snowman (1957)

Monday, January 11th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK
Actors: Tucker, Forrest | Cushing, Peter | Connell, Maureen | Wattis, Richard | Brown, Robert | Brill, Michael | Morris, Wolfe | Marlé, Arnold | Chinn, Anthony | Johnson, Fred | Rae, John
Directors: Guest, Val
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At a remote lhamasery in the Himalayas, scientist John Rollason studies rare mountain herbs with the help of his wife Helen, and associate Peter, while awaiting the arrival of an American named Tom Friend. Over Helen’s objections and warnings by the High Lhama, he sets out with Friend on an expedition to find the elusive Yeti, accompanied by another American named Shelley and a young Scotsman, McNee, who claims to have seen the thing. Footprints are found in the snows and McNee seems queerly affected the closer they get to their quarry’s likely habitat but the biggest shock to Rollason is discovering Friend is a showman who only intends to exploit their find, with Shelley his gamehunter-marksman. The conflict between science and commercialism only increases when an enormous anthropoid is shot, and the horror only increases as the party realizes the other Yeti intend to retrieve their fallen comrade and have powers to do so which seem extra-human…

The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Woodward, Joanne | Wayne, David | Cobb, Lee J. | Jerome, Edwin | Murray, Alena | Kulp, Nancy | Spencer, Douglas | Ross, Terry Ann | Scott, Ken | Gibson, Mimi | Cooke, Alistair | Edwards, Vince | Garrick, Richard
Directors: Johnson, Nunnally
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Eve White is a quiet, mousy, unassuming wife and mother who keeps suffering from headaches and occasional black outs. Eventually she is sent to see psychiatrist Dr. Luther, and, while under hypnosis, a whole new personality emerges: the racy, wild, fun-loving Eve Black. Under continued therapy, yet a third personality appears, the relatively stable Jane. This film, based on the true-life case of a multiple personality, chronicles Dr. Luther’s attempts to reconcile the three faces of Eve. multiple personalities.

Night Passage (1957)

Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Genres: Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Murphy, Audie | Duryea, Dan | Foster, Dianne | Stewart, Elaine | De Wilde, Brandon | Flippen, Jay C. | Anderson, Herbert | Wilke, Robert J. | Beaumont, Hugh | Elam, Jack | Cook, Tommy | Fix, Paul | Carey, Olive | Flavin, James
Directors: Neilson, James
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The workers on the railroad haven’t been paid in months — that’s because Whitey and his gang, including fast-shooting, dangerous, but likeable Utica Kid, keep holding up the train for its payroll. Grant McLaine, a former railroad employee who was fired in disgrace, is recruited to take the payroll through under cover. A young boy and a shoebox figure into the plot when Whitey’s gang tries to hold up the train and Grant and the Kid meet again to settle an old score.

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Hopper, William | Taylor, Joan | Puglia, Frank | Zaremba, John | Henry, Thomas Browne | Vuolo, Tito | Arvan, Jan | Space, Arthur | Braverman, Bart | Cassel, Sid | Harryhausen, Ray | Khoury, George | Moriyama, Rollin | Orlando, Don | Pelling, George
Directors: Juran, Nathan
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When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome forcing the military to take drastic action.

Unearthly, The (1957)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Carradine, John | Healey, Myron | Hayes, Allison | Buferd, Marilyn | Batanides, Arthur | Todd, Sally | Johnson, Tor | Gordon, Roy | Prescott, Guy | Fleer, Harry | Petroff, Gloria | McWilliams, Paul | Johnson, Karl
Directors: Petroff, Boris
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Professor Charles Conway is a mad scientist attempting to develop the proverbial fountain of youth by creating “the 17th gland”. Ignoring all aspects of scientific ethics, his research subjects are people who have no family and are under the impression that the doctor can cure their depression. However, his research hasn’t been successful and his subjects are turned into grotesque zombies. Some of Conway’s patients begin to catch on to his scheme and intend to stop him.