Best Drama Films of 1955
My Sister Eileen
My Sister Eileen is ... which compares quite favorably to all the My Sister Eileen adaptations which went before and were still to come. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
The Big Knife
Robert Aldrich's screen adaptation ... signing. When the star continues to resist, Hoff threatens to blackmail him with an ugly incident from his past. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell
In this 1955 Otto ... wises up and strengthens its air power. Elizabeth Montgomery makes her film debut in the role of Margaret Landsdowne. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Love Me or Leave Me
One of the gutsiest ... that she would soon turn her back on dramatic roles to star in a series of fluffy domestic comedies. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
The Desperate Hours
Based on the novel ... on who would get top billing. Desperate Hours was remade in 1991 with Mickey Rourke in the Bogart role. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
East of Eden
This truncated screen version ... as Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden provided Dean with his first Oscar nomination, for Best Actor. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Blackboard Jungle
In this gritty urban ... Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets, which helped to spark the rock & roll boom of the 1950s. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
The Long Gray Line
The life story of ... too leisurely for its own good, but this appealing film gradually grows on its audience--just like Marty Maher himself. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Based on the autobiographical ... by Paul Fain and Sammy Webster; Oscars also went to Alfred Newman's musical score and Charles LeMaire's costume design. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
The Man With the Golden Arm
When Otto Preminger was ... killed in a suicidal fall, the path is cleared for Frankie to pursue a clean new life with Novak. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Susan Hayward pulls out ... not win an Oscar for her performance, she did cop the "Best Actress" prize at the Cannes Film Festival. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
The Rose Tattoo
Scripted by famed playwright ... troubling time. Williams wrote the script for Magnani, who was awarded an Oscar for her work in the film. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Battle Cry
Adapted by Leon Uris ... much that he adopted it as his professional cognomen. Composer Max Steiner's musical score earned him an Oscar nomination. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
The End of the Affair
Recently freed from his ... delivered by John Mills, as an affable private detective hired by Henry Miles to check up on Sarah's whereabouts. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
A Bullet for Joey
A communist spy plots ... true alignment he takes action. Between him and the G-man, the world ends up safe for democracy once again. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Summertime
Katharine Hepburn stars as ... Jack Hildyard, Summertime was an adaptation of (and vast improvement upon) Arthur Laurents' play The Time of the Cuckoo. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
The Prisoner
British theatrical director Peter ... release than it did in Europe, where it was branded both "pro-Communist" and "anti-Communist" by various single-issue pressure groups. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the ... hardly 100 percent accurate; still, the film is immensely entertaining, thanks to the enthusiastic performances of the three stars. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Queen Bee
Queen Bee offers a ... can to destroy the relationship so she can have the manager back for herself. Unfortunately, she goes too far. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
The Benny Goodman Story
Steve Allen makes his ... Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson, Harry James, Martha Tilton, Ziggy Elman, and Sammy Davis Sr. (as Fletcher Henderson). [ best drama films - 1955 ]
The Way of Life [TV Series]
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The Prodigal
One critic has noted ... else, The Prodigal would be memorable for Lana Turner's pagan-ritual costume, which is little more than a glorified bikini. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
A Man Called Peter
A Man Called Peter ... A Man Called Peter was certainly not conceived out of any box-office considerations, but it still paid its way. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
La Sorcière
An Alexander Kouprine novel ... of the film's final image still leaves the audience with a hollow feeling in the pit of the stomach. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Stella
Earlier reports that Greek ... play by Iakovos Kambanellis, Stella was filmed in 1955, but did not attain a widespread American release until 1957. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Le Amiche
Roman couturier Clelia (Eleonora ... relationships and a keen sense of balance. The fine supporting cast includes Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux, and Franco Fabrizi. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto
Musashi Miyamoto was the ... and Duel at Ganyru Island . All three films were eventually combined into an epic single entity, Samurai Trilogy. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
La Escondida
Judging by the number ... Gabriela's heart -- and inadvertently causes her downfall. La Escandida is stunningly photographed by the late, great Gabriel Figueroa. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Quay South
This hour-long episode of ... struggles to retain control over his blockship "The Ebb Tide" despite the authorities' persistent attempts to take it away. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Yellowneck
A "Yellowneck" was a ... makes it to the coast. There he discovers that the boat that was supposed to be there has vanished. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Flesh Merchant
The exploitational The Flesh ... of its era, the film stops short of actual sex scenes, though little else is left to the imagination. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
The Brain Machine
A vicious murderer suffers ... tendencies. After he escapes and kidnaps the doctor, police follow and soon uncover evidence of gangsters and drug smuggling. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Kid Tabaco
Armando Silvestre, Lucio Moreno ... settle down and get married. Veteran Mexican helmer Zacarias Gomez Urquiza (El Hijo Del Diablo, El Ultimo Cartucho) directs. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Muerte de un Ciclista
An adulterous couple is ... same year director Bardem published a controversial essay on the decline in Spanish cinema under the rule of Franco. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
The Tiger and the Flame
Tiger and the Flame ... to American audiences, the film was at least handsomely mounted in the manner of the best Hollywood historical epics. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
The Alfred Nobel Story - No Greater Love
Directed by Harald Braun ... use the money as reward for the greatest contributors to physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and, of course, peace. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Escuela de Música
Popular South-of-the-Border singing stars ... a virtual catalogue of what was then playing on the hit parades in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Cuba. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
La Faraona
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La Gaviota
Raul de Anda's romantic ... a voyage, but during his time away she falls in love with an artist who moves to her village. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
La Sospechosa
La Sospechosa concerns a ... begins to investigate what happened, she begins to suspect that her stepfather knows more than he is letting on. [ best drama films - 1955 ]
Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal [TV Series]
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La Doncella de Piedra
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