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Subgenre Sampler
Cranes are Flying, The (Letyat Zhuravli) (1957)
- Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
Feat. Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksei Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev - A Russian classic which conveys homefront anxieties during WW2 for a young bride whose original fiance has gone to the front. Pursued by his…
Designing Woman (1957)- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray - A sportswriter and a fashion–designer marry after a whirlwind romance, and discover they have little in common in this diverting rom–com…
Interlude (1957)- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch… - June Allyson falls for the charms of a married European conductor while being courted by a Munich doctor. One of Sirk's weaker melodramas, this was…
Kiss Them For Me (1957)- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson… - Very very silly war comedy with Grant and his navy buddies fighting for their right to spend their shore leave as they see fit, which inevitably…
Love in the Afternoon (1957)- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier - Dark horse Audrey Hepburn classic sees dir. Billy Wilder riff Ernst Lubitsch by way of Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier (a wall fixture of…
Raintree County (1957)- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint… - Civil War set romance has Montgomery Clift as a schoolteacher whojoins the Union Army as they march into Georgia in the hope of finding his estranged…
Sayonara (1957)- Dir. Joshua Logan, Marlon Brando
Feat. Patricia Owens, Ricardo Montalban, Martha Scott… - An effective, well–acted version of James Michener's novel set during the Korean War, in which ace pilot Brando inconveniently falls in love…
Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)- Dir. Joseph Pevney
Feat. Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, Walter Brennan - Debbie Reynolds shines in this classic rom–com about an unsophisticated woman from backwoods Mississippi who falls in love with a wealthy pilot…
Until They Sail (1957)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman… - 1950s Christchurch is the novelty star of this MGM prestige picture set entirely in Canterbury, New Zealand, with landmarks such as the Christchurch…
Backlash (1956)- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, William Campbell… - Richard Widmark and Donna Reed play the tough–talkin', rootin–tootin leads in this gritty horse opera, as they both seek vengeance for…
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