Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Seven Year Itch, The (1955)- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell - Marilyn Monroe gives plenty of dumb blonde for this comedy about a married man (Tom Ewell) who has a fling with you–know–who.
Simon & Laura (Simon and Laura) (1955)- Dir. Muriel Box
Feat. Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Maurice Denham… - Prescient satire with a bickering couple, on the brink of splitting up are given the opportunity to revitalise their acting careers by starring in a…
Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens Leende) (1955)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson… - An enjoyable, ultimately serious comedy of deception set among the Swedish gentry of the early 20th century who are engaged in a poetic dance of…
To 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…
We're No Angels (1955)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov… - Moderately interesting Hollywood comedy concerns three convicts (Bogart, Ray and Ustinov) who escape from Devils Island and have to transform into…
3 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…
Belles of St. Trinian's, The (1954)- Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole… - Classic pre–CARRY ON hi–jinks set in a seedy girl's school and based on Ronald Searle's cartoon series. Alastair Sim (in drag) plays…
Doctor in the House (1954)- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde - First and best of a series in which Doctors and Nurses exchange fleeting glances and banter for comic effect while training at a med school. Dirk…
Dov'e La Liberta...? (Where Is Freedom?) (1954)- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Toto, Vera Molnar, Nita Dover - Legendary Italian comic Toto plays a barber who cannot abide the hypocritical society he is thrust into after spending two decades in prison, and…
Father Knows Best (TV Series) (1954-1960)- Dir. Peter Tewksbury
Feat. Sarah Selby, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray - Cloying sitcom bathed in the idealised glow of 50's apple–pie America, centred on a suburban family and their typically patriarchal upbringing.…
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