The Mailbag Robbery

1957

English

6.2

♡ 1

Compton Bennett Director

Mark Baker as Gibbs

Patsy Smart as Mother

Lee Patterson as Ronnie

John Lee as Young Man

A gang of four would-be robbers plans to steal a fortune in currency hidden aboard the "Flying Scotsman" in a railroad stateroom by cutting through the wall of the adjacent stateroom, but find themselves up against numerous unexpected drawbacks, including interference by their fellow passengers.

Not One Shall Die

5.3

David Lowell Rich Director

Abraham Sofaer as David Lessing

Frank DeKova as Egyptian official

Paul Stewart as Kellerman

Agnes Moorehead as Mrs. Lessing

A short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core crew of many Columbia noirs, including cinematographer Burnett Guffey, art director Cary Odell, editor Al Clark, set decorator Frank Tuttle, and composer Morris Stoloff.

We'll Meet Again

1957

Japanese

7.2

♡ 5

Action

based on novel or book

Comedy

Drama

stepparent stepchild relationship

Yasuzô Masumura Director

Tetsuya Watanabe as

Keizô Kawasaki as Ryôsuke Hirooka

Sadako Sawamura as Tatsuko Ono

Ayako Wakao as Yûko Ono

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.

Woman in a Dressing Gown

1957

English

7.2

♡ 4

79%

J. Lee Thompson Director

Marianne Stone as Hairdresser

Anthony Quayle as Jim

Melvyn Hayes as Newsboy

Michael Ripper as Pawnbroker

A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.

Los jueves, milagro

1957

Spanish

7.2

♡ 1

Action

Comedy

Fantasy

Luis García Berlanga Director

Félix Fernández as Don Evaristo

José Luis López Vázquez as Don Fidel

Paolo Stoppa as Don Salvador

Richard Basehart as Martino

In Fontecilla, a Spanish village in decline, the mayor and other illustrious citizens hatch a crazy plan to revitalize tourism.

Sunlight

1957

English

5.9

Melvin Van Peebles Director

Melvin Van Peebles as

Ruby Edwards as

Peter Fleischer as

Effie Furnace as

A black man steals to afford to marry the woman he loves. After being released from prison, he returns in time to see his daughter's wedding.

Three Pickup Men for Herrick

1957

English

5.7

Melvin Van Peebles Director

The second short film Melvin Van Peebles made in San Francisco before decamping for Europe is a striking portrait of a group of day labourers competing to secure a job.

After the Ball

1957

English

6.2

♡ 1

Biography

Musical

vaudeville

Compton Bennett Director

Mark Baker as George M. Cohan

Leonard Sachs as Richard Warner

Ronnie Corbett as Stage Entertainer

Laurence Harvey as Walter de Frece

The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility

Time Lock

1957

English

6.1

♡ 3

40%

Gerald Thomas Director

Roland Brand as Police Officer

Marianne Stone as (uncredited)

Sean Connery as Welder #1

Murray Kash as Welder #2

A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than 10 hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy.

Lucky Jim

1957

English

5.9

♡ 2

28%

John Boulting Director

Maureen Connell as Margaret Peel

Jean Anderson as Mrs. Welch

Ronnie Corbett as Professor in opening staff meeting

John Cairney as Roberts

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.

The Three Faces of Eve

1957

English

7.2

♡ 14

94%

77%

Action

based on a true story

based on true story

dissociative identity disorder

Nunnally Johnson Director

Lee J. Cobb as Doctor Curtis Luther

Mary Field as Effie Blanford

Joanne Woodward as Eve White / Eve Black / Jane

Douglas Spencer as Mr. Black

A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.

La grande strada azzurra

1957

Italian

6.8

♡ 4

Gillo Pontecorvo Director

Yves Montand as Giovanni Squarciò

Terence Hill as Renato

Alida Valli as Rosetta, la moglie

Francisco Rabal as Salvatore

Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll…

Johnny Gunman

1957

English

5.3

♡ 1

Art Ford Director

Stanley H. Robinson as 1st Hood

Leona Anderson as Leona

Woodrow Parfrey as Sidney Wells

Mort Hillman as Waiter

Set over the course of one night in New York, Johnny Gunman follows a tense battle between two mob boss hopefuls.

The Midnight Story

1957

English

6.7

♡ 2

Joseph Pevney Director

John Indrisano as Card Player

Joe Turkel as Lothario at Dance

Ted de Corsia as Lt. Kilrain

Gilbert Roland as Sylvio Malatesta

Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and investigates alone. Soon he is a close friend of the Malatesta family, all delightful people, especially lovely cousin Anna. Uncertain whether Sylvio is guilty or innocent, Joe is now torn between old and new loyalties.

Omar Khayyam

1957

English

5.9

♡ 3

33%

William Dieterle Director

Margaret Hayes as Queen Zarada

Don Diamond as Trooper Captain

Abraham Sofaer as Tutush

Kem Dibbs as Tutush's Guard

Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.

Battle Hymn

1957

English

6.3

♡ 6

22%

Douglas Sirk Director

Carleton Young as Maj. Harrison

Martha Hyer as Mary Hess

Paul Sorensen as Sentry

Dan Duryea as Sgt. Herman

Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others.

The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent

1957

English

3.4

♡ 4

8%

Roger Corman Director

June Kenney as Asmild

Susan Cabot as Enger

Herman Hack as Grimault Rider

Gary Conway as Jarl

A group of Viking women build a ship and set off across the sea to locate their missing menfolk, only to fall into the clutches of the barbarian Grimolts who hold their men captive and worship the sea serpent which overturned their ship.

Sayonara

1957

English

7.0

♡ 18

82%

79%

Action

air force

based on novel or book

Drama

interracial relationship

Joshua Logan Director

James Garner as Captain Bailey

Kent Smith as General Webster

Marlon Brando as Major Gruver

William Wellman Jr. as Stars and Stripes Reporter

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

The Devil Strikes at Night

1957

German

7.2

♡ 2

1940s

based on magazine, newspaper or article

Robert Siodmak Director

Mario Adorf as Bruno Lüdke

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as Dr. Schleffien

Claus Holm as Kommissar Axel Kersten

Friedrich Joloff as Radiostimme

Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case.

The Night Runner

1957

English

6.1

♡ 3

Abner Biberman Director

Merry Anders as Amy Hansen

Bill Erwin as McDermott

Jean Inness as Miss Dodd

Ray Danton as Roy Turner

A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Was he released too soon?

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The Mailbag Robbery

Not One Shall Die

We'll Meet Again

Woman in a Dressing Gown

Los jueves, milagro

Sunlight

Three Pickup Men for Herrick

After the Ball

Time Lock

Lucky Jim

The Three Faces of Eve

La grande strada azzurra

Johnny Gunman

The Midnight Story

Omar Khayyam

Battle Hymn

The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent

Sayonara

The Devil Strikes at Night

The Night Runner