1957 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1957

Notable Films Released in 1957

U.S.A. unless stated

• 3:10 to Yuma, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Richard Jaeckel, Felicia Farr
• 5 Steps to Danger, starring Sterling Hayden and Ruth Roman
• 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements, director Jean Cocteau
• 10th of May (Der 10. Mai) - (Switzerland)
• 12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, E.G. Marshall
• 1918 - (Finland)
• 20 Million Miles to Earth, starring William Hopper

A

• Aasha, starring Kishore Kumar, Vyjayanthimala and Asha Parekh - (India)
• The Abominable Snowman, starring Peter Cushing - (Britain)
• Across the Bridge, starring Rod Steiger - (Britain)
• The Admirable Crichton, starring Kenneth More and Diane Cilento - (Britain)
• All Mine to Give, starring Glynis Johns
• An Affair to Remember, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr
• And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) - (U.S.S.R.)
• April Love, starring Shirley Jones and Pat Boone
• The Auntie from Chicago (I theia ap' to Chicago) - (Greece)

B

• Baby Face Nelson, starring Mickey Rooney
• The Bachelor Party, starring Don Murray, E.G. Marshall, Carolyn Jones
• Barnacle Bill, starring Alec Guinness - (Britain)
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring John Gielgud and Jennifer Jones - (Britain)
• La Bestia humana (The Human Beast) - (Argentina)
• The Big Land, starring Alan Ladd and Virginia Mayo
• Bitter Victory, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Richard Burton - (France/U.S.A.)
• The Black Scorpion, starring Mara Corday
• Blue Murder at St Trinian's, starring Terry-Thomas and Joyce Grenfell - (Britain)
• Boy on a Dolphin, starring Alan Ladd and Sophia Loren
• The Bridge on the River Kwai, directed by David Lean, starring William Holden and Alec Guinness - winner of 7 Oscars, 3 BAFTAS and 3 Golden Globes - (Britain)
• Brothers in Law, starring Richard Attenborough and Ian Carmichael - (Britain)
• The Brothers Rico, starring Richard Conte
• The Burglar, starring Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield (filmed in 1955 but released in 1957 due to sudden popularity of Mansfield)

C

• The Careless Years, starring Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, Barbara Billingsley
• City of Gold - (Canada)
• The Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull) - (West Germany)
• Country Hotel (Rong Raem Narok) - (Thailand)
• The Cranes are Flying (Letyat zhuravli), directed by Mikhail Kalatozov - winner of the Palme d'Or - (U.S.S.R.)
• Crime of Passion, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr
• The Crucible (Les Sorcières de Salem), starring Simone Signoret and Yves Montand - (France/East Germany)
• The Curse of Frankenstein, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee - (Britain)

D

• The D.I., directed by and starring Jack Webb
• Decision at Sundown, starring Randolph Scott
• The Delicate Delinquent, starring Jerry Lewis (his first film without Dean Martin)
• The Delinquents, directed by Robert Altman
• Designing Woman, starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall
• Desk Set, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell
• The Devil's Hairpin, starring Cornel Wilde
• Do Aankhen Barah Haath (Two Eyes, Twelve Hands) - (India)
• Don Quixote (Don Kikhot) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Don't Go Near the Water, starring Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Holliman, Anne Francis
• Drango, starring Jeff Chandler
• Duped Till Doomsday (Betrogen bis zum jüngsten Tag) - (East Germany)

E-F

• Edge of the City, starring Sidney Poitier and John Cassavetes
• The Enemy Below, produced and directed by Dick Powell, and starring Robert Mitchum
• A Face in the Crowd, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Tony Franciosa, Lee Remick
• Les Fanatiques (The Fanatics), starring Pierre Fresnay and Michel Auclair - (France)
• A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones
• A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister (Wakare no chatsumi-uta shimai-hen) - (Japan)
• Fathers and Sons (Padri e figli), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
• Fear Strikes Out, starring Anthony Perkins and Karl Malden
• Fire Down Below, starring Rita Hayworth and Robert Mitchum
• The Flute and the Arrow (En Djungelsaga), directed by Arne Sucksdorff - (Sweden)
• Forty Guns, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Gene Barry
• Funny Face, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson

G-H

• The Garment Jungle, starring Lee J. Cobb and Gia Scala
• The Gates of Paris (Porte des Lilas), directed by René Clair - (France/Italy)
• The Girl in Black Stockings, starring Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren
• La grande strada azzurra (The Wide Blue Road) - (Italy)
• Les Girls, aka Cole Porter's Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Mitzi Gaynor
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, directed by John Sturges, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, John Ireland, Dennis Hopper
• Gun for a Coward, starring Fred MacMurray
• The Halliday Brand, starring Joseph Cotten and Viveca Lindfors
• A Hatful of Rain, starring Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa
• He Who Must Die (Celui qui doit mourir), directed by Jules Dassin - (France)
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum
• The Helen Morgan Story, starring Paul Newman and Ann Blyth
• Hell Drivers, directed by Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins, Herbert Lom, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell - (Britain)
• Hour of Decision, starring Jeff Morrow and Hazel Court
• The House of the Angel (La Casa del ángel) - (Argentina)

I-J

• I Am Waiting (Ore wa matteru ze) - (Japan)
• The Incredible Shrinking Man, directed by Jack Arnold, starring Grant Williams
• Island in the Sun, starring Dorothy Dandridge, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, Harry Belafonte
• Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley
• Jamboree, featuring Dick Clark, Frankie Avalon, Fats Domino
• Jeanne Eagels, starring Kim Novak
• Jet Pilot, starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh
• Johnny Tremain, starring Hal Stalmaster and Sebastian Cabot
• The Joker Is Wild, starring Frank Sinatra, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Mitzi Gaynor

K-L

• Kabuliwala (aka The Man) - (India)
• Kathputli (Puppet), directed by Amiya Chakrabarty and Nitin Bose, starring Vyjayanthimala and Balraj Sahni - (India)
• A King in New York, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin - (Britain)
• Kiss Them for Me, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Suzy Parker, Ray Walston
• The Land Unknown, starring Jock Mahoney
• Legend of the Lost, starring John Wayne and Sophia Loren
• Les Girls, starring Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Mitzi Gaynor
• Let's Be Happy, starring Vera-Ellen and Tony Martin - (U.K.)
• The Little Hut, starring Ava Gardner - (Britain/U.S.A.)
• Love in the Afternoon, starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
• Loving You, starring Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey
• The Lower Depths (Donzoko), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)

M-N

• Man of a Thousand Faces, biopic of Lon Chaney, starring James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Roger Smith, Robert Evans
• A Matter of Dignity (To teleftaio psema), directed by Michael Cacoyannis - (Greece)
• Mayabazar (Fantasy Bazaar), starring N. T. Rama Rao - (India)
• Mayerling, a TV film starring Audrey Hepburn
• Men in War, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray
• Miracles of Thursday (Los jueves, milagro), directed by Luis García Berlanga, starring Richard Basehart - (Spain)
• Mister Cory, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Kathryn Grant
• The Monolith Monsters, starring Grant Williams and Lola Albright
• The Monster That Challenged the World, starring Tim Holt
• Mother India, starring Nargis - (India)
• My Gun Is Quick, starring Robert Bray (as Mike Hammer)
• The Mysterians (Chikyū Bōeigun), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• The Naked Truth, starring Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers - (Britain)
• Naya Daur (New Era), directed by B. R. Chopra, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala - (India)
• Night of the Demon, (Curse of the Demon), directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews - (Britain)
• Night Passage, starring James Stewart
• Nightfall, starring Aldo Ray, Brian Keith and Anne Bancroft
• Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria), directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)
• Nine Lives (Ni Liv) - (Norway)

O-P

• The Oklahoman, starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Hale
• Old Yeller, starring Dorothy McGuire and Fess Parker
• Omar Khayyam, starring Cornel Wilde, John Derek, Debra Paget, Yma Sumac
• The One That Got Away, starring Hardy Kruger - (Britain)
• Operation Mad Ball, starring Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs
• An Osaka Story (Osaka Monogatari) - (Japan)
• The Outcry (Il Grido), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Steve Cochran and Alida Valli - (Italy)
• The Pajama Game, starring Doris Day
• Pal Joey, directed by George Sidney, starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak
• Paths of Glory, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas
• Paying Guest, starring Dev Anand - (India)
• Perri
• Peyton Place, starring Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Diane Varsi, Russ Tamblyn, Arthur Kennedy, Lloyd Nolan
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin, starring Van Johnson and Claude Rains
• The Pride and the Passion, starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren
• The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier (who also directed)
• Pyaasa (Thirsty), directed by and starring Guru Dutt - (India)

Q-R

• Quatermass 2, starring Brian Donlevy - (Britain)
• Raintree County, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint
• The Real End of the Great War (Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny) - (Poland)
• Rose Bernd, starring Maria Schell and Raf Vallone - (West Germany)

S

• The Sad Sack, starring Jerry Lewis
• Saint Joan, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jean Seberg - (Britain/U.S.)
• Sayonara, directed by Joshua Logan, starring Marlon Brando, James Garner, Red Buttons, Miyoshi Umeki
• The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow - (Sweden)
• The Shiralee, starring Peter Finch - (Britain)
• Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend, starring Randolph Scott and Angie Dickinson
• Silk Stockings, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse
• The Singing Ringing Tree (Das singende, klingende Bäumchen) - (East Germany)
• Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, starring Richard Egan and Walter Matthau (see also ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue)
• The Smallest Show on Earth, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna and Peter Sellers - (Britain)
• The Snow Queen (Snezhnaya koroleva) a Russian animated film
• Something Of Value, starring Rock Hudson and Sidney Poitier
• The Spirit of St. Louis, starring James Stewart in a biopic of Charles Lindbergh
• Stopover Tokyo, starring Robert Wagner and Joan Collins
• The Story of Esther Costello, starring Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi and Heather Sears - (Britain)
• The Strange One, starring Ben Gazzara and George Peppard
• The Strange World of Planet X, starring Forrest Tucker - (Britain)
• Sweet Smell of Success, directed by Alexander MacKendrick, starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis

T-V

• The Tall T, directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott and Richard Boone
• Tammy and the Bachelor, starring Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Nielsen
• The Tattered Dress, starring Jeanne Crain, Jeff Chandler, Jack Carson
• Ten Thousand Bedrooms, starring Dean Martin
• The Three Faces of Eve, starring Joanne Woodward
• Three Violent People, starring Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Forrest Tucker
• Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jō), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
• Time Limit, directed by Karl Malden, starring Richard Widmark and June Lockhart
• The Tin Star, starring Anthony Perkins, Henry Fonda, Betsy Palmer
• Tip on a Dead Jockey, starring Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Jack Lord
• Tizoc, starring Pedro Infante and María Félix - (Mexico)
• The Tough (Al-Fetewa) - (Egypt)
• Tumsa Nahin Dekha, starring Shammi Kapoor - (India)
• The Unholy Wife, starring Diana Dors and Rod Steiger
• Untamed Youth, starring Mamie Van Doren
• Until They Sail, starring Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jean Simmons
• El Vampiro (The Vampire) - (Mexico)

W-Z

• The Way to the Gold, starring Jeffrey Hunter and Sheree North
• The Wayward Bus, starring Jayne Mansfield, Joan Collins, Dan Dailey
• White Nights (Le Notti Bianche), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Maria Schell and Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
• Whom God Forgives (Amanecer en Puerta Oscura) - (Spain)
• Wild Is the Wind, starring Anna Magnani and Anthony Quinn
• Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson and Victor Sjostrom - (Sweden)
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, starring Jayne Mansfield (reprising her Broadway role) and Tony Randall
• The Wings of Eagles, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (their 4th film together)
• Witness for the Prosecution, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
• Woman in a Dressing Gown, directed by J. Lee Thompson - (Britain)
• Yellow Crow (Kiiroi karasu) - (Japan)
• Young and Dangerous, starring Mark Damon
• Zero Hour!, starring Dana Andrews, Sterling Hayden, Linda Darnell, Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch