Drama Movies of 1956
Giant
George Stevens' sprawling adaptation of Edna Ferber's best-selling novel successfully walks a fine line between potboiler and serious drama for its ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
Anastasia
Anastasia is adapted from the popular stage play by Marcelle Maurette. The scene is Paris in the early 1920s. Ingrid Bergman plays a would-be suicide who is rescued by Russian expatriate Yul Brynner. ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
War and Peace
War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
This meticulous and unusually long cinemadaptation of Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit stars Gregory Peck ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
The Wide Blue Road
La Grande Strada Azzura was also released as Squarcio, which happens to be the name of the character played by star Yves Montand. Squarcio is a provincial fisherman who ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
Written on the Wind
Perhaps the definitive Douglas Sirk production, Written on the Wind is based on the novel by Robert Wilder. The story revolves around the Hadleys, a wealthy but thoroughly debauched family of Texas oil ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
Friendly Persuasion
Adapted from the best-selling novel by Jessamyn West, Friendly Persuasion is set in Southern Indiana in the early days of the Civil War. Gary Cooper plays Jess Birdwell, patriarch of a Quaker family which ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
Lust for Life
This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was in turn inspired by the written correspondence between Van Gogh and ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
Patterns
Rod Serling's incisive "gray flannel suit" TV drama created such a sensation when Kraft Television Theatre first aired it live on January 11, 1955 that, in an unprecedented move, it was ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
Battle Hymn
Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson. A bomber pilot during World War II, Hess inadvertently releases a ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
Miracle in the Rain
The fate that brings lovers together can easily tear them apart as can be seen in this sentimental tragedy ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
The Eddy Duchin Story
Tyrone Power stars in this tear-jerking biography of the beloved but short-lived pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin. Boston-born Eddy Duchin (Tyrone Power) moves to New York City to pursue a career ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
The Harder They Fall
An obviously ailing Humphrey Bogart made his final screen appearance in The Harder They Fall. Adapted from a novel by Budd Schulberg, the film is a thinly disguised a clef account of the Primo Carnera boxing scandal. Bogart is cast as ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
The Wrong Man
Director Alfred Hitchcock lets us know from the outset that The Wrong Man is a painfully true story and not one of his customary fabricated suspense yarns, through the simple expedient of walking ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
Hot Rod Girl
American-International's Hot Rod Girl is a whole lot less exploitaitonal than its title. Chuck Connors stars as Ben, a policeman who hopes to stem an outbreak of juvenile delinquency. Overcoming great obstacles--most of them ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
Die Halbstarken
Rising young German leading man Horst Buccholz followed up his award-winning performance in Sky Without Stars with his starring role in Die Halbstarken. The title translates to "The Half-Strong Ones", in reference to the film's ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
Il Ferroviere
Pietro Germi is both star and director of Il Ferroviere. Germi plays Andrea, a railroad engineer with a large and troublesome family. Faced with a choice between supporting ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
Girl in Black
Hot on the heels of his breakthrough film Stella, Greek moviemaker Michael ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
Liane, Jungle Goddess
In this variation of the Tarzan legend, a beautiful white woman is found living with a tribe in the jungles of Africa. Thought to be the granddaughter of a rich ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
A Man Escaped
In a genre crowded with quality films, director Robert Bresson's ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
New Year Sacrifice
Based on an original short story by renowned Chinese author Lu Xun, New Year Sacrifice tells the harrowing yet moving tale of a young woman whose tragic life eventually forces her to the fringes of society. In the years before the Revolution ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
La Tercera Palabra
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
Crazed Fruit
In this powerful drama with comic undertones from Japan, a lazy summer by the beach develops a sinister undercurrent when two brothers' (Masahiko Tsugawa and Yujiro Ishihara) ... [ Drama movie - 1956 ]
Locura Pasional
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