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Subgenre Sampler
Girl Can't Help It, The (1956)
- Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Julie London - This ebullient comedy is not only the best showcase for what one Jayne Mansfield had to offer, but also for many of the rock 'n' roll talent of the…
Girls in Prison (1956)- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Richard Denning, Joan Taylor - A seminal women–in–prison movie sure to have packed the kids in at US drive–ins to see 'what happens when a group of deranged,…
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956)- Dir. Ed Wood Jnr.
Feat. Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Bela Lugosi - Ed Wood's 'masterpiece' is renowned as the worst film ever made, but in truth any film this enjoyable can't be so bad. Zilch production values and…
Rock Rock Rock (1956)- Dir. Will Price
Feat. Tuesday Weld - Tuesday Weld (at 13) schemes to get herself a strapless gown for the prom, surrounded by an impressive array of rock'n'rollers both black and white,…
Shake, Rattle and Rock! (1956)- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Michael Connors, Lisa Gaye, Douglas Dumbrille… - Shaky but endearing pop relic in which a group of concerned adults try to ban rock 'n' roll music in their town believing that it promotes juvenile…
- Violent Years, The (1956)
- Dir. William J Morgan
Feat. Mamie Van Doren - Scripted by Ed Wood Jnr (PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE) this tawdry 50s juvenile–delinquent pic features Mamie Van Doren leading a gang of…
Written On the Wind (1956)- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack… - Douglas Sirk’s strident Texas oil–dynasty drama about a pair of spoiled and wayward heirs to the family fortune and the…
Bettie Page - Teaserama (Betty Page) (1955)- Dir. Irving Klaw
Feat. Betty Page - Latterday fetish icon Betty Page dominates the screen in this near plotless curiousity from the mid–1950s: a loosely organised series of…
Bride of the Monster (1955)- Dir. Ed Wood Jnr.
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson - Mad scientist Bela Lugosi and hulking monster Tor Johnson abduct passers–by in a scheme to create a super–race. Super–bad acting,…
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin - High–camp spectacle about treachery in ancient Egypt during the building of the great Pyramid has procured something of a cult following, with…
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