1957 movies



Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Lancaster, Burt | Douglas, Kirk | Fleming, Rhonda | Van Fleet, Jo | Ireland, John | Bettger, Lyle | Faylen, Frank | Holliman, Earl | de Corsia, Ted | Hopper, Dennis | Bissell, Whit | Mathews, George | Hudson, John | Kelley, DeForest | Milner, Martin
Directors: Sturges, John
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After the long career of lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp deciedes to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. There he would see them in feud with Clantons, local clan of thugs and cattle thieves. When the showdown becomes inevitable, the help will come from Doc Holliday, terminally-ill gambler who happens to be another Wild West legend.

Fire Down Below (1957)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Seagal, Steven | Helgenberger, Marg | Lang, Stephen | Hunt, Brad | Kristofferson, Kris | Stanton, Harry Dean | Helm, Levon | Collie, Mark | Harvey, Alex | Bruce, Ed | Neighbors, Amelia | Masur, Richard | Krawic, Michael | Jeter, Clay | Pollard, Yvonne
Directors: Enríquez Alcalá, Félix
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Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.

Paths of Glory (1957)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Douglas, Kirk | Meeker, Ralph | Menjou, Adolphe | Macready, George | Morris, Wayne | Anderson, Richard | Turkel, Joe | Kubrick, Christiane | Hausner, Jerry | Capell, Peter | Meyer, Emile | Freed, Bert | Dibbs, Kem
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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In Stanley Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” war is viewed in terms of power. This mesmerizing, urgent film about a true episode in World War I combines the idea that class differences are more important than national differences with the cannon-fodder theory of war, the theory that soldiers are merely pawns in the hands of generals who play at war is if it were a game of chess. The result of this amazing film has been the emergence of one of the great talents in contemporary cinema, the master whose greatest work was yet to come.

12 Angry Men (1957)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Balsam, Martin | Fiedler, John | Cobb, Lee J. | Marshall, E.G. | Klugman, Jack | Binns, Ed | Warden, Jack | Fonda, Henry | Sweeney, Joseph | Begley, Ed | Voskovec, George | Webber, Robert | Bond, Rudy | Kelly, James | Nelson, Billy
Directors: Lumet, Sidney
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Heralded as an individual of the all-on many occasions great mannered releases, “12 Piqued Men” focuses on a jury’s deliberations in a marvellous murder casing. A 12-confine jury is sent to enter on deliberations in the from the start-degree carnage trial of an 18-year-beloved Latino accused in the stabbing extirpation of his sire, where a blameworthy verdict means an instinctive death decree. The took place appears to be unfortified-and-kill: The defendant has a flickering alibi; a knife he claimed to oblige lost is base at the butchery scene; and specific witnesses either heard screaming, catch-phrase the destruction or the guy fleeing the disturbance. Eleven of the jurors instantaneously vote at fault; only Juror No. 8 (Mr. Davis, played aside Henry Fonda) casts a not responsible vote. At elementary Mr. Davis’ bases his suffrage moreso as a replacement for the good of exchange after all, the jurors should believe beyond a unextravagant doubt that the defendant is sorry. As the deliberations open out, the exclusive quickly becomes a burn the midnight oil of the jurors’ complex personalities (which scope from sound, bright and empathetic to presumptuous, prejudiced and barbarian), preconceptions, backgrounds and interactions. That provides the backdrop to Mr. Davis’ attempts in convincing the other jurors that a “not penitent” verdict power be allot.

Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s (1957)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Terry-Thomas | Cole, George | Grenfell, Joyce | Sim, Alastair | Sabrina | Jeffries, Lionel | Lamble, Lloyd | Rollett, Raymond | Scott, Terry | Mayne, Ferdy | Walters, Thorley | Chamberlain, Cyril | Ibbs, Ronald | Furse, Judith | Ripper, Michael
Directors: Launder, Frank
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The headmistress of St Trinian’s is jailed, and to try one’s hand at and donjon order, the army and the monitor are called in, they don’t copse a imperil. This epoch the hellcats of St. Trinian’s scantiness to wangle to Italy where a abundant playboy wants to preferable one of them as his little woman (little does he identify what he’s letting himself in repayment for). To after to Italy in dub time they beget to away an endeavour writing game, it’s accommodating when you be acquainted with how. In Europe they generate amok and mature involved in brilliant theft and their ordinary brand of disorder.

Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Holden, William | Hawkins, Jack | Guinness, Alec | Hayakawa, Sessue | Donald, James | Horne, Geoffrey | Morell, André | Williams, Peter | Boxer, John | Herbert, Percy | Goodwin, Harold | Sears, Ann | Okawa, Heihachiro | Katsumoto, Keiichiro | Chakrabandhu, M.R.B.
Directors: Lean, David
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The steam deals with the picture of British prisoners of do battle during Men War II who are ordered to assemble a connect to suit the Burma-Siam rolling-stock. Their predisposition is to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery the link but, beneath the running of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a arms of British unity, spirit and amour propre in adverse circumstances. At initially, the prisoners regard Nicholson when he bravely endures torture kind of than compromise his principles instead of the allowances of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but mighty man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded all-encompassing. He convinces himself that the span is a tombstone to British stamp, but truly is a tombstone to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a smarmy form of collaboration with the opponent. Unknown to him, the Allies eat sent a business into the jungle, led through Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to whirlwind up the tie.

Funny Face (1957)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hepburn, Audrey | Astaire, Fred | Thompson, Kay | Auclair, Michel | Flemyng, Robert | Dovima | Parker, Suzy | Hartnett, Sunny | Del Val, Jean | Gibson, Virginia | England, Sue | Lee, Ruta | Gerry, Alex | Castiglioni, Iphigenie | Booth, Nesdon
Directors: Donen, Stanley
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Dernier Cri photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), in search recompense an highbrow backdrop benefit of an ventilate-headed sculpt, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore. When the photo conference is through the stock is sinistral in a devastation, much to salesgirl Jo Stockton’s (Audrey Hepburn) shock. Avery stays behind to pinch her blameless up. Later, he examines the photos enchanted there and sees Jo in the grounding of a person shot. He is intrigued sooner than her corresponding exactly appearance, as is Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), the compiler of a important fashion journal. They proposition Jo a modeling catch, which she reluctantly accepts only because it includes a caper to Paris. Sooner, her haughty attitude toward the farm out softens, and Jo begins to relish in the employ and the business of her generous photographer.

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Power, Tyrone | Dietrich, Marlene | Laughton, Charles | Lanchester, Elsa | Williams, John | Daniell, Henry | Wolfe, Ian | Thatcher, Torin | Varden, Norma | O'Connor, Una | Compton, Francis | Tonge, Philip | Lee, Ruta | Farnum, Franklyn | Kenny, Colin
Directors: Wilder, Billy
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Esteemed criminal member of the bar Sir Wilfrid Robarts has legitimate returned to rule after hardship a understanding attack and is imagined to be on a nutriment of mild civil suits. But the box of Leonard Vole, a wolf accused of murdering a mellifluous middle-venerable widow, proves overpowering — particlularly when Sir Wilfrid meets the accused’s bride, the distinguished Christine Vole. Christine when one pleases appear as a onlooker: not the defense, but an eye to the prosecution.

Love in the Afternoon (1957)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Cooper, Gary | Hepburn, Audrey | Chevalier, Maurice | Doude, Van | McGiver, John | Bourdin, Lise | Bonifas
Directors: Wilder, Billy
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Top Banana Billy Wilder salutes his graven image, Ernst Lubitsch, with this comedy there a midst-aged Lothario fascinated alongside the daughter of a concealed detective who has been hired to entrap him with the spouse of a patient.