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Wide Blue Road, The (La grande strada azzurra) (1957)- Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
Feat. Yves Montand, Alida Valli, Francisco Rabal… - Italian neorealist melodrama drama which marks the feature debut of Gillo Pontecorvo (THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS). Set on a small rugged island off the…
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…
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…
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
- 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’…
One Desire (1955)- Dir. Jerry Hopper
Feat. Anne Baxter, Rock Hudson, Julie Adams - Old–fashioned romantic melodrama set in the early 1900's, following the fate of a star–crosses Oklahoma gambler–casino dealer and a…
Sissi (1955)
- Dir. Ernst Marischka
Feat. Romy Schneider - Regal saga finds 16–year–old princess Sissi fall in love with husband–to–be Franz Josef in the first of an ongoing series of…
Summertime (Summer Madness) (1955)- 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…
Beachcomber, 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 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, 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…
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