Category Archives: 1956

The Rainmaker

IMDB Rating: 7.10
1277 votes

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Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secrect yen, won't take a chance — until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!
Actors
Bill Starbuck, aka Bill Smith, Bill Harley, Tornado JohnsonBurt Lancaster
Lizzie CurryKatharine Hepburn
Deputy Sheriff J.S. File, Three Point TexasWendell Corey

The King and Four Queens

IMDB Rating: 5.70
302 votes

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Smooth cowboy Dan Kehoe arrives at a ranch run by an old widow and her four daughters-in-law. He's been tipped off that the proceeds of a gold robbery are hidden on the ranch and only one of the women knows where. He plays them off against each other in his quest to discover the location.
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Dan KehoeClark Gable
Sabina McDadeEleanor Parker
Ruby McDadeJean Willes

Anastasia

IMDB Rating: 7.20
2480 votes

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Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her he comes to believe she is really Anastasia. In the end the Empress must decide her claim.
Actors
AnastasiaIngrid Bergman
General Sergei Pavlovich BounineYul Brynner
Dowager Empress Maria FeodorovnaHelen Hayes

The Searchers

IMDB Rating: 8.00
26316 votes

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When Ethan Edwards decide to go find the Indians who killed his family, he is joined by his nephew, Martin Pawley. The problem is that Pawley is 1/8th Indian and there's nothing in the world that Edwards hates more than Indians. The journey to find the Indians and Edwards' niece last for years.
Actors
Ethan EdwardsJohn Wayne
Martin PawleyJeffrey Hunter
Laurie JorgensenVera Miles

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

IMDB Rating: 6.20
2064 votes

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Dr. Russell Marvin heads up Operation Skyhook, which is tasked with sending rockets into the upper atmosphere to probe for future space flights. Unfortunately, all the rockets are somehow disappearing. While investigating this strange occurrence, Russell and his new wife Carol are abducted by a flying saucer. The aliens demand to meet with certain people in order to negotiate... but it was a trick, and the Martains only wanted to kill them. The invasion has begun and if Russell and Carol can't find a way to stop these creatures and get past their defenses, it may be the end of the human race.
Actors
Dr. Russell A. MarvinHugh Marlowe
Carol MarvinJoan Taylor
Maj. Huglin, Liason OfficerDonald Curtis

Forbidden Planet

IMDB Rating: 7.80
12427 votes

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An expedition is sent from Earth to Altair in the constellation of Aquilae (some 17 light years from Earth) to discover what happened to a colony of settlers on its fourth planet, Altair-4. What they discover is how and why an alien race of geniuses destroyed itself overnight while leaving their technology intact at some point in the distant, distant past.
Actors
Dr. Edward MorbiusWalter Pidgeon
Altaira 'Alta' MorbiusAnne Francis
Commander J. J. AdamsLeslie Nielsen

A Kiss Before Dying

IMDB Rating: 6.80
705 votes

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Bud Corliss is an ambitious college student with big plans for himself and an heiress, Dorothy Kingship. But then Dorothy goes and gets herself pregnant. It's his child, too, of course; but this ruins everything. Her moralistic father will disown her and will certainly never accept him. It seems he's trapped. Bud's mother knows something is troubling her son, but he won't talk to her about it. All she knows is that Bud doesn't want to turn out like his father, with holes in his shoes. He doesn't have to worry. As his mother says, when he turns his mind to something, he does it. Unknown to her, his thoughts have turned to murder.
Actors
Bud CorlissRobert Wagner
Gordon GrantJeffrey Hunter
Ellen KingshipVirginia Leith

Reach for the Sky

IMDB Rating: 7.10
582 votes

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The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
Actors
Douglas BaderKenneth More
Thelma BaderMuriel Pavlow
Johnny SandersonLyndon Brook

Trapeze

IMDB Rating: 6.60
1003 votes

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Tino Orsini has learned the trapeze from his father but he travels to Europe to seek out Mike Ribble, one of the few men who has managed to complete a triple somersault. Ribble no longer works the trapeze and now walks with a cane after a nasty fall left him a cripple. Orsini convinces him to act as his catcher and all is well until the gold digging Lola, who'll do just about anything to become part of a major circus act, arrives on the scene. Her presence creates friction between the two men and puts in doubt whether Tino will ever accomplish the elusive triple.
Actors
Mike RibbleBurt Lancaster
Tino OrsiniTony Curtis
LolaGina Lollobrigida

The King and I

IMDB Rating: 7.40
5935 votes

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After the death of her husband, Anna Owens moves from England to Siam with her son Louis to become a teacher for the children of the king of Siam. She finds Siamese customs to be quite different from English ones, which brings her often in conflict with the king. However, after some time they find themselves getting along much better.
Actors
Anna LeonowensDeborah Kerr
King Mongkut of SiamYul Brynner
TuptimRita Moreno
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