Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks Read More »
Tag Archives: 1955
The Ladykillers (1955) Alexander Mackendrick, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker
A gang of thieves rent a room upstairs from an old woman, who thinks they’re a musical band. Read More »
Kings Rhapsody (1955) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore
Richard, son of the King of all Laurentia that has been residing in Monte Carlo with Martha Karrillos for many years Read More »
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) Otto Preminger, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker
Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. Read More »
Las Vegas Shakedown (1955) Sidney Salkow, Dennis O’Keefe, Coleen Gray, Charles Winninger
A teacher (Coleen Gray) writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner (Dennis O’Keefe) threatened by a gangster. Read More »
The Way Out (1955) Montgomery Tully, Mona Freeman, Gene Nelson, John Bentley
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge Read More »
Leonora of the Seven Seas AKA Leonora dos sete mares (1955) Carlos Hugo Christensen, Sadi Cabral, Wilza Carla, Annie Carol
A great mystery surrounds Leonora, and it becomes even more mysterious Read More »
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) Otto Preminger, Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy
The true story of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneering crusader for the Army’s fledgling air corp. Read More »
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (1955) Edward Buzzell, Rory Calhoun, Piper Laurie, Jack Carson
Harold North, public relations director of the Post conglomerate Read More »
El asesino X (1955) Juan Bustillo Oro, Carlos López Moctezuma, Manolo Fábregas, Prudencia Grifell
A man shoots four times to another man and then surrenders to the police. Read More »
Stranger on Horseback (1955) Jacques Tourneur, Joel McCrea, Miroslava, Kevin McCarthy
A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. Read More »
A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) Carol Reed, Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff
In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers Read More »
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955) J. Lee Thompson, Donald Sinden, Jeannie Carson, James Robertson Justice
Peter Weston is engaged to Vanessa Colebrook, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Read More »
Stronger Than Love AKA Más fuerte que el amor (1955) Tulio Demicheli, Jorge Mistral, Miroslava, Néstor de Barbosa
Young industrialist with a working-class background forces his way into the old-money society that’s trying to shut him out. Read More »
Toto in Hell AKA Totò all’inferno (1955) Camillo Mastrocinque, Totò, Maria Frau, Fulvia Franco
After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi Read More »