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Paths of Glory
Genres: Crime, Drama, War
Starring: Ralph Meeker, Kirk Douglas, Joe Turkel, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Country: USA
Year: 1957
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The futility and irony of the war in the trenches in WWI is shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general after part of his force falls back under fire in an impossible attack.
12 Angry Men
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Starring: E.G. Marshall, Martin Balsam, Henry Fonda, Jack Warden, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Klugman
Directors: Sidney Lumet
Country: USA
Year: 1957
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"12 Angry Men" focuses on a jury's deliberations in a capital murder case. A 12-man jury is sent to begin deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of an 18-year-old Latino accused in the stabbing death of his father, where a guilty verdict means an automatic death sentence. The case appears to be open-and-shut: The defendant has a weak alibi; a knife he claimed to have lost is found at the murder scene; and several witnesses either heard screaming, saw the killing or the boy fleeing the scene. Eleven of the jurors immediately vote guilty; only Juror No. 8 (Mr. Davis) casts a not guilty vote. At first Mr. Davis' bases his vote more so fo...
I Love Lucy - Season Eight
Genres: Comedy, Family
Starring: Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Directors: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance
Country: USA
Year: 1957
She is also depicted as a devoted housewife and attentive mother. Lucy and Ricky are mountain climbing in the Alps during their 1956 European vacation.Lucy's husband, Ricky Ricardo, is an up-and-coming Cuban American singer and bandleader with an excitable personality.
Fox-Terror
Genres: Comedy, Family, Animation
Starring: Mel Blanc
Directors: Robert McKimson
Country: USA
Year: 1957
Foghorn's going fishing, but a fox has other plans for him. Posing as a racetrack tout, he suggests Foggy get a hunting dog and go hunting. Once the dog is gone, the fox comes after the chickens. One of them pulls the fox alarm, and the dog comes running back (too late). The fox next poses as a quiz show host, tricking Foghorn and the dog into blowing each other up. They go through another cycle or two of abuse before identifying their common enemy. They team up and go after him.
Cheese It, the Cat!
Genres: Comedy, Family, Animation
Starring: Mel Blanc, June Foray, Daws Butler
Directors: Robert McKimson
Country: USA
Year: 1957
In this spoof of TV's "The Honeymooners", Ralph Crumden and Ned Morton, two mice patterned on Jackie Gleason and Art Carney's characters in the TV show, try to obtain a cupcake from a refrigerator to use as a birthday cake for Ralph's wife, Alice. But they have to pass through a kitchen guarded by an orange cat.
The Smallest Show on Earth
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Francis De Wolff, Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis
Directors: Basil Dearden
Country: UK
Year: 1957
Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business - a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. They pack their bags and travel to Sloughborough expecting to sell the cinema to gain a huge inheritance, however, they discover the cinema is falling apart and is run by a comically incompetant staff who seem to have worked there forever. They set out with a plan to sell it but things don't quite go to plan.
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi
Starring: Whit Bissell, Robert Burton, Marshall Bradford, Charles Seel, Phyllis Coates, Gary Conway, George Lynn
Directors: Herbert L. Strock
Country: USA
Year: 1957
Professor Frankenstein, a university lecturer with an alligator pit under his house, steals body parts of dead athletes from the wreckage of a crashed airplane. He builds a hunky male monster with a hideously disfigured face, which goes on a killing spree.
Night of the Demon (1957)
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Starring: Lloyd Lamble, Liam Redmond, Athene Seyler, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Reginald Beckwith, Ewan Roberts
Directors: Jacques Tourneur
Country: UK
Year: 1957
Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader, Julian Karswell. Holden is a skeptic and does not believe in Karswell's power. Nonetheless, he accepts an invitation to stay at Karswell's estate, along with Joanna Harrington, niece of Holden's confidant who was electrocuted in a bizarre automobile accident. Karswell secretly slips a parchment into Holden's papers that might possibly be a death curse. Recurring strange events finally strike fear into Holden, who believes that his only hope is to pass the parchment back to Karswell to break the demonic curse.
Campbell's Kingdom
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western
Starring: Barbara Murray, Sid James, James Robertson Justice, Robert Brown, Stanley Baker, Athene Seyler, Maurice Kaufmann
Directors: Ralph Thomas
Country: UK
Year: 1957
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. Bruce Campbell (Dirk Bogarde) inherits "Campbell's Kingdom" in the Canadian Rockies on the death of his grandfather...
The Undead
Genres: Fantasy, Horror
Starring: Dick Miller, Billy Barty, Bruno VeSota, Richard Devon, Allison Hayes, Mel Welles, Richard Garland
Directors: Roger Corman
Country: USA
Year: 1957
Two psychical researchers procure the services of a lady of the night and send her back in time under hypnosis. She finds herself in the body of a past existence - a woman in medieval times waiting to be beheaded as a witch. By avoiding this fate she unwittingly starts to alter history.
Jet Pilot
Genres: Drama
Starring: Jay C. Flippen, John Wayne, Ivan Triesault, Janet Leigh, Paul Fix, Roland Winters, Hans Conried
Directors: Josef von Sternberg
Country: USA
Year: 1957
Air Force Colonel Shannon is assigned to escort defecting Soviet pilot Anna. He falls in love with her, but she is scheming to lure him back to the USSR. But Shannon has a scheme of his own.
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Ralph Meeker, Keenan Wynn, Adolphe Menjou, Milton Frome, Benay Venuta, Una Merkel, Jane Russell
Directors: Norman Taurog
Country: USA
Year: 1957
When a movie star is kidnapped, everyone thinks it's a publicity stunt. It's not.
Not of This Earth
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi
Starring: Paul Birch, Morgan Jones, Dick Miller, Harold Fong, William Roerick, Jonathan Haze, Roy Engel
Directors: Roger Corman
Country: USA
Year: 1957
An alien agent from the distant planet Davana is sent to earth via a high-tech matter transporter. There he terrorizes Southern California in an attempt to acquire blood for his dying race, the result of a devastating nuclear war.
The True Story of Jesse James
Genres: Biography, Western
Starring: Hope Lange, Marian Seldes, Robert Wagner, John Carradine, Agnes Moorehead, Alan Baxter, Barry Atwater
Directors: Nicholas Ray
Country: USA
Year: 1957
The last eighteen years in the life of Jesse James, showing his home life in Missouri, his experiences with Quantrill's raiders, his career of banditry with his brother Frank and the Younger brothers, and his attempt to lead a peaceful life after the disastrous attempt to rob the bank at Northfield, Minn.
The Lonely Man
Genres: Western
Starring: Claude Akins, Neville Brand, Denver Pyle, Anthony Perkins, Jack Palance, Robert Middleton, Elisha Cook Jr.
Directors: Henry Levin
Country: USA
Year: 1957
Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past...
Sweet Smell of Success
Genres: Drama, Film-Noir
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Martin Milner, Emile Meyer, Tony Curtis, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell
Directors: Alexander Mackendrick
Country: USA
Year: 1957
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J.J. Hunsecker, the most powerful newspaper columnist in New York, is determined to prevent his sister from marrying Steve Dallas, a jazz musician. He therefore covertly employs Sidney Falco, a sleazy and unscrupulous press agent, to break up the affair by any means possible.
The D.I. aka The Drill Instructor
Genres: Drama
Starring: Don Dubbins, Virginia Gregg, Barbara Pepper, Jackie Loughery, Lin McCarthy, Jack Webb, Monica Lewis
Directors: Jack Webb
Country: USA
Year: 1957
Technical Sergeant Jim Moore is one of the toughest Drill Instructors on Parris Island. But he's got a thorn in his side: Pvt. Owens, who always seems to foul up when the pressure's on. Convinced that "there's a man underneath that baby powder," Sgt. Moore drives Owens to the point of desertion. Making things worse, Capt. Anderson has given Moore three days to make the scared private into Marine material, "or I'll personally cut the lace off his panties and ship him out!" Adding to the pressure, Moore also juggles a budding romance with a shop girl.
Loving You
Genres: Musical, Drama
Starring: Elvis Presley, James Gleason, Wendell Corey, Lizabeth Scott, Grace Hayle, Ralph Dumke, Paul Smith
Directors: Hal Kanter
Country: USA
Year: 1957
Deke Rivers is a delivery man who is discovered by publicist Glenda Markle and country-western musician Tex Warner who want to promote the talented newcomer to fame and fortune, giving him every break he deserves. Romantic complications arise as Susan, another singer in the group, offers him devoted admiration as Glenda leads him on with promises of a golden future.
The One That Got Away
Genres: Drama, War
Starring: Richard Marner, George Mikell, Jack Gwillim, Andrew Faulds, Alec McCowen, Colin Gordon, Terence Alexander
Directors: Roy Ward Baker
Country: UK
Year: 1957
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This is the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war taken in Britain during the Second World War who escaped from numerous British POW camps and got back to Germany.
The Invisible Boy
Genres: Family, Sci-Fi
Starring: Robert H. Harris, Robby the Robot, Harold J. Stone, Alexander Lockwood, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster, Dennis McCarthy
Directors: Herman Hoffman
Country: USA
Year: 1957
Timmie is a typical ten-year-old boy: he loves fun and mischief and hates to study. When his scientist father, in an attempt to improve Timmie's mind, plops him in front of the Super Computer, the boy learns more than how to beat his dad at chess. With designs on world domination, the computer has Timmie reactivate Robbie the Robot and directs the metal hulk to do his bidding. But while Robbie is an efficient minion, can he be made to harm the boy who gave him life?