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Naughty GirlNaughty Girl (Cette Sacree Gamine) (1956)
Dir. Michel Boisrond
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Francoise Fabian
A con–artist father leaves his devious minx of a daughter in the hands of a performer who discovers the girl is bent on disrupting his life the…
All That Heaven AllowsAll That Heaven Allows (1955) Aro Favourite
Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
Middle–aged widow Jane Wyman fights for the respect of her family and upscale community when she conducts an affair with her ‘gardener’…
Love is a Many-Splendoured ThingLove is a Many-Splendoured Thing (1955)
Dir. Henry King
Feat. William Holden, Jennifer Jones
Romantic splendour set in Hong Kong at the time of the Korean war about a married US war correspondent who embarks on a forbidden love affair.
SummertimeSummertime (Summer Madness) (1955) Recommended
Dir. David Lean
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda
Katharine Hepburn, middle–aged spinster, flees to Venice on vacation, only for the romance of the city – and a dark, handsome Italian catch…
To Paris with LoveTo Paris with Love (1955)
Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray
Widowed aristocrat Guinness takes his estranged son to Paris where romantic entanglements await. Tepid romantic comedy fails to rise to the standard…
3 Coins in the Fountain3 Coins in the Fountain (Three Coins in the Fountain) (1954)
Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters
Likeable, but modest classic in which three women throw coins into the Fountain of Trevi in Rome, to try their romantic luck. Great tourist locales…
Beachcomber, TheBeachcomber, The (1954)
Dir. Muriel Box
Feat. Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden
Entertaining and deeply silly romantic yarn with prim missionary Johns falling for slovenly Newton as they team up to fight a cholera outbreak on a…
Elephant WalkElephant Walk (1954)
Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch
Love–triangle melodrama set on Ceylon tea plantation is a tad overblown, with thunder stolen from the good cast by a climactic elephant…
End of the Affair, TheEnd of the Affair, The (1954)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills
Original screen adaptation of Graham Greene’s tale of unrequited wartime love, with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson entangled in a brief but illicit…
It Should Happen to YouIt Should Happen to You (1954)
Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon
Aspiring model Judy Holliday gets the kind of attention she hadn't bargained for when she advertises herself on a giant billboard. Jack Lemmon's…

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