1956 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1956

Notable Films Released in 1956

U.S.A. unless stated

• 7th Cavalry, starring Randolph Scott and Barbara Hale
• 23 Paces to Baker Street, starring Van Johnson and Vera Miles
• 1984, directed by Michael Anderson, starring Edmond O'Brien and Michael Redgrave - (Britain)

A

• Accused of Murder, starring Vera Ralston
• Alexander the Great, starring Richard Burton
• Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum) - (India)
• The Ambassador's Daughter, starring Olivia de Havilland, Myrna Loy, John Forsythe
• Anastasia, starring Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner
• And God Created Woman, directed by Roger Vadim, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France)
• Aparajito (The Unvanquished), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
• Around the World in 80 Days, directed by Michael Anderson, starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine - Academy Award for Best Picture
• At Gunpoint, starring Fred MacMurray, Walter Brennan, Dorothy Malone
• Attack, aka Attack!, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin
• Autumn Leaves, starring Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson
• Away All Boats, starring Jeff Chandler

B

• Baby Doll, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach
• Back from Eternity, starring Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger
• Backlash, starring Richard Widmark and Donna Reed
• The Bad Seed, starring Nancy Kelly and Patty McCormack
• Bandido, starring Robert Mitchum
• The Battle of the River Plate, aka Pursuit of the Graf Spee, written and directed by Powell and Pressburger, starring John Gregson and Peter Finch - (Britain)
• Behind the Headlines, starring Paul Carpenter and Hazel Court
• The Benny Goodman Story, starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed
• The Best Things in Life Are Free, starring Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Sheree North
• Between Heaven and Hell, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Robert Wagner and Buddy Ebsen
• Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Dana Andrews and Joan Fontaine
• Bhowani Junction, starring Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger - (Britain/U.S.A.)
• Bigger Than Life, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
• The Birds and the Bees, starring George Gobel and Mitzi Gaynor
• Bob le flambeur (Bob the Gambler), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville - (France)
• The Bold and the Brave, starring Wendell Corey and Mickey Rooney
• The Boss, starring John Payne and Doe Avedon
• The Bottom of the Bottle, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Van Johnson, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Roman
• The Brave One, directed by Irving Rapper
• The Burmese Harp (Biruma no tategoto), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
• The Burning Hills, starring Natalie Wood and Tab Hunter
• Bus Stop, starring Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray

C

• C.I.D., starring Dev Anand - (India)
• Calabuch (aka The Rocket from Calabuch), directed by Luis García Berlanga, starring Edmund Gwenn and Valentina Cortese - (Spain)
• Calle Mayor (Main Street), directed by Juan Antonio Bardem, starring Betsy Blair - (Spain)
• Carnival Night (Karnavalnaya noch) - (USSR)
• Carousel, directed by Henry King, starring Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae
• The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn, comedy short starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Dick Emery - (Britain)
• The Catered Affair, starring Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds
• Child of Sorrow (Anak dalita) - (Philippines)
• Chori Chori, starring Nargis and Raj Kapoor - (India)
• Comanche, starring Dana Andrews and Linda Cristal
• Come Next Spring, starring Ann Sheridan and Steve Cochran
• Congo Crossing, starring Virginia Mayo and Peter Lorre
• The Conqueror, directed by Dick Powell, starring John Wayne (as Genghis Khan)
• The Court Jester, starring Danny Kaye
• Crazed Fruit (Kurutta kajitsu), directed by Ko Nakahira - (Japan)
• Crime in the Streets, directed by Don Siegel, starring James Whitmore and John Cassavetes
• A Cry in the Night, starring Edmond O'Brien, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr

D-F

• D-Day the Sixth of June, starring Robert Taylor
• Dakota Incident, starring Dale Robertson
• Dance With Me Henry, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Death in the Garden (La mort en ce jardin), directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Simone Signoret and Charles Vanel - (France)
• Diane, starring Lana Turner in her final MGM film after nearly 20 years with the studio
• Donatella, directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Elsa Martinelli - (Italy)
• Don't Look Back, My Son (Ne okreći se sine) - (Yugoslavia)
• The Dragon (O Drakos) - (Greece)
• Early Spring (Soshun), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
• Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, starring Hugh Marlowe
• The Eddy Duchin Story, starring Tyrone Power and Kim Novak
• Elena and Her Men, starring Ingrid Bergman - (France/Italy)
• The Fastest Gun Alive, starring Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford
• The First Texan, starring Joel McCrea
• The First Traveling Saleslady, starring Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson, Carol Channing
• Forbidden Planet, starring Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis
• Forever, Darling, starring Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, James Mason
• Friendly Persuasion, directed by William Wyler, starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins
• Funtoosh (Funny Man), starring Dev Anand - (India)

G-H

• Gaby, starring Leslie Caron
• Gervaise, directed by René Clément, starring Maria Schell - (France)
• Giant, directed by George Stevens, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean in his final film
• The Girl Can't Help It, starring Tom Ewell and Jayne Mansfield in her first starring role
• The Girl He Left Behind, starring Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood
• A Girl in Black, directed by Michael Cacoyannis - winner of Golden Globe - (Greece)
• Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, starring Raymond Burr and Takashi Shimura - (Japan/U.S.A.)
• Good-bye, My Lady, directed by William A. Wellman, starring Brandon deWilde, Walter Brennan, Phil Harris
• Great Day in the Morning, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Robert Stack and Virginia Mayo
• The Great Locomotive Chase, starring Fess Parker and Jeffrey Hunter
• The Great Man, directed by and starring José Ferrer, with Julie London, Keenan Wynn, Ed Wynn
• The Green Man, starring Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas - (Britain)
• Gun the Man Down, starring James Arness and Angie Dickinson in her film debut
• Gunslinger, directed by Roger Corman, starring John Ireland and Beverly Garland
• The Harder They Fall, starring Humphrey Bogart in his final film
• The Harvest Month (Elokuu) - (Finland)
• Helen of Troy, starring Rossana Podesta, Stanley Baker
• High Society, starring Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly in her final film
• Hilda Crane, starring Jean Simmons
• Hold Back the Night, starring John Payne
• Hollywood or Bust, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, with Anita Ekberg, in the final Martin and Lewis film
• Hot Blood, starring Jane Russell and Cornel Wilde
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Anthony Quinn - (France/Italy)

I-J

• Ich suche Dich (I Seek You), starring O.W. Fischer and Anouk Aimée - (West Germany)
• The Indian Fighter, starring Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directed by Don Siegel, starring Kevin McCarthy
• Invitation to the Dance, directed by and starring Gene Kelly
• Jagte Raho (Stay Awake), starring Raj Kapoor - (India)
• Johnny Concho, starring Frank Sinatra
• Jubal, starring Glenn Ford, Rod Steiger, Ernest Borgnine, Felicia Farr, Charles Bronson
• Julie, starring Doris Day and Louis Jourdan

K-L

• Kanal, directed by Andrzej Wajda - (Poland)
• The Killer Is Loose, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey
• The Killers, a short film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Killing, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor, Vince Edwards
• The King and Four Queens, starring Clark Gable
• The King and I, starring Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner
• A Kiss Before Dying, starring Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward
• The Last Hunt, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger
• The Last Wagon, starring Richard Widmark
• The Leech (Shabab emraa) - (Egypt)
• The Lieutenant Wore Skirts, directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Tom Ewell and Sheree North
• Lisbon, directed by and starring Ray Milland, with Maureen O'Hara and Claude Rains
• The Long Arm, starring Jack Hawkins - (Britain)
• Love Me Tender, starring Elvis Presley in his film debut
• Lust for Life, starring Kirk Douglas (as Vincent van Gogh) and Anthony Quinn

M-N

• A Man Escaped (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, starring Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March, Keenan Wynn, Lee J. Cobb
• Man on the Tracks (Człowiek na torze) - (Poland)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (a remake of his own 1934 British film), starring James Stewart and Doris Day
• The Man Who Never Was, starring Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame - (Britain)
• Meet Me in Las Vegas, starring Cyd Charisse
• Merry-Go-Round (Körhinta) - (Hungary)
• Miracle in the Rain, starring Jane Wyman
• Moby Dick, directed by John Huston, starring Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn
• Naked Gun starring Mara Corday and Willard Parker
• Nagareru (Flowing), directed by Mikio Naruse - (Japan)
• Navy Wife, starring Joan Bennett
• Never Say Goodbye, starring Rock Hudson, David Janssen, Cornell Borchers
• New Delhi - (India)

O-Q

• Old Khottabych (Starik Khottabych) - (U.S.S.R.)
• On the Threshold of Space, starring Guy Madison
• Over-Exposed, starring Cleo Moore
• Pardners, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Patterns, starring Van Heflin and Ed Begley
• Pillars of the Sky, starring Jeff Chandler and Dorothy Malone
• Please Murder Me, starring Angela Lansbury and Raymond Burr
• Poor but Handsome (Poveri ma belli) - (Italy)
• The Power and the Prize, starring Robert Taylor, Burl Ives, Mary Astor, Cedric Hardwicke, Elisabeth Muller
• Private's Progress, a Boulting Brothers film starring Ian Carmichael and Richard Attenborough - (Britain)
• Professor Hannibal (Hannibál tanár úr), directed by Zoltán Fábri (Hungary)
• The Proud and Profane, starring William Holden and Deborah Kerr
• The Proud Ones, starring Robert Ryan and Virginia Mayo

R

• The Rack, starring Paul Newman, Edmund O'Brien, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis
• The Railroad Man (Il Ferroviere), directed by and starring Pietro Germi - (Italy)
• The Rainmaker, starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn
• Ransom!, starring Glenn Ford and Donna Reed
• Reach for the Sky, a biopic of Douglas Bader starring Kenneth More - (Britain)
• The Red Balloon (Le Ballon rouge) - (France)
• The Road of Life (El camino de la vida) - (Mexico)
• Rock Around the Clock, featuring Bill Haley and His Comets
• Rodan, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• The Roof (Il Tetto), directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
• Run for the Sun, starring Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer

S

• Samurai III: Duel At Ganryu Island, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
• The Searchers, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Ken Curtis, Natalie Wood
• Serenade, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Mario Lanza and Joan Fontaine
• Seven Men from Now, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott and Lee Marvin
• Seven Wonders of the World, a documentary film directed by Tay Garnett and others
• Seven Years in Tibet - (Britain)
• The Silent World, a marine documentary by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle - (France)
• Sira` Fi al-Mina (aka Dark Water), directed by Youssef Chahine, starring Omar Sharif - (Egypt)
• The Solid Gold Cadillac, starring Judy Holliday
• Somebody Up There Likes Me, starring Paul Newman
• The Spanish Gardener, starring Dirk Bogarde - (Britain)
• The Square Jungle, starring Tony Curtis and Patricia Crowley
• Star in the Dust, starring John Agar and Mamie Van Doren
• Stars in Your Eyes - (Britain)
• Storm Center, starring Bette Davis and Kim Hunter
• Street of Shame (Akasen chitai), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi - (Japan)

T-V

• Tea and Sympathy, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Deborah Kerr and John Kerr
• The Teahouse of the August Moon, starring Marlon Brando and Glenn Ford
• The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. de Mille, starring Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Yvonne De Carlo, Edward G. Robinson
• There's Always Tomorrow, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett
• Three Brave Men, starring Ray Milland
• Time Table, directed by and starring Mark Stevens, with Felicia Farr
• Toward the Unknown, starring William Holden and Virginia Leith
• A Town Like Alice, starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch - (Britain)
• Trapeze, directed by Carol Reed, starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida
• Tribute to a Bad Man, directed by Robert Wise, starring James Cagney, Irene Papas, Stephen McNally, Don Dubbins, Vic Morrow
• The Twelve Months (Dvenadtsat mesyatsev) - (USSR)
• Uncle Hyacynth (Mi tío Jacinto) - (Spain)
• Valley of Peace (Dolina miru) - (Yugoslavia)
• I Vampiri (The Vampire) - (Italy)

W-Z

• War and Peace, directed by King Vidor, starring Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Anita Ekberg
• What a Woman!, starring Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer and Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
• While the City Sleeps, starring Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Vincent Price
• Who Done It?, starring Benny Hill - (Britain)
• Written on the Wind, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone
• The Wrong Man, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles
• X the Unknown, starring Dean Jagger and Leo McKern - (Britain)
• Yield to the Night, starring Diana Dors - (Britain)
• You Can't Run Away from It, directed by Dick Powell, starring June Allyson and Jack Lemmon
• Zarak, starring Victor Mature - (Britain)