Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Rock Around the Clock (1956)- Dir. Fred F. Sears
- This upbeat, toe–tapping 'advertorial' for rock & roll was intially brushed off as a show–reel for live performance, yet remains a lively…
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,…
Rodan (1956)- Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata - GODZILLA spin–off has a small Japanese town undergoing various monstrous threats, starting with caterpillars and ending with flying prehistoric…
Roger Corman Collection #2 (Creature from the Haunted Seas, It Conquered the World) (1956-1961)- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland… - A double–feature of Corman sci–fi 'quickies'. It Conquered the World (1956) – Van Cleef lures a malevolent alien from Venus to…
Roof, The (Tetto, Il) (1956)- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi - Moving (and until recently, exceptionally hard to find) neo–realist drama that latches onto the hard times of a newly married couple who…
Run for the Sun (1956)- Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer… - Righteous remake of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME has Widmark and Greer running through some almighty foliage desperate to evade smarmy baddie…
Searchers, The (1956)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles… - A grand example of what made this such a popular genre. A disturbed John Wayne treks the untamed wilderness in a five–year odyssey to kill the…
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…
Sissi - The Young Empress (1956)- Dir. Ernst Marischka
Feat. Romy Schneider - Royal life is not quite the bed of roses for Princess Sissi, now married to her beloved Franz but under the constant gaze of her meddling…
Smiley (1956)- Dir. Anthony Kimmins
Feat. Ralph Richardson, John McCallum, Chips Rafferty… - An iconic, simple depiction of smalltown life in rural 1950s Australia, loosely revolving around the life of a young boy, whose father is a nomadic…
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