Drama Movies of 1957
The Sun Also Rises
For its time, The Sun Also Rises was a reasonably frank and faithful adaptation of the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel. Its main concession to Hollywood formula was the casting of star players who were all too old to convincingly ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Fire Down Below
Jack Lemmon and Robert Mitchum star as Tony and Felix, co-owners of a ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Band of Angels
Based on a novel by Robert Penn Warren, this Southern potboiler stars Yvonne DeCarlo as Amantha Starr, the daughter of a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner. When her father unexpectedly dies, Amantha discovers that her father was deep ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
12 Angry Men
A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Three Violent People
Set in the American West after the Civil War, this drama is the pull-no-punches story of a lethal family feud. Colt Saunders (Charlton Heston) fought for the Confederacy in the war, and he returns to his family's Texas ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Island in the Sun
Political intrigue and romantic gamesmanship send an already torrid ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Sweet Smell of Success
Ernest Lehman drew upon his experiences as a Broadway press agent to write the devastating a clef short story "Tell Me About Tomorrow." This in turn was adapted by Lehman and Clifford Odets into the sharp-edged, penetrating ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
A Face in the Crowd
The meteoric popularity of Arthur Godfrey was allegedly the basis of the 1957 drama Face in the ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
The Wings of Eagles
The Wings of Eagles is filmmaker John Ford's paean to his frequent collaborator--and, it is rumored, drinking buddy--Cmdr. Frank "Spig" Wead. John Wayne stars as Wead, a reckless WW1 Naval aviator who (it says here) was ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Bonjour Tristesse
Francoise Sagan's bittersweet novel Bonjour Tristesse is given a sumptuous Riviera-filmed screen treatment. David Niven plays a wealthy playboy, the father of teenaged ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Man of a Thousand Faces
One screen legend tips his hat to another as James Cagney portrays horror film icon Lon Chaney in Man of a Thousand Faces. Joseph ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
The Lonely Man
Based on a 1941 movie entitled Shepherd of the Hills, this is the story of a gunfighter who decides to return home after 17 years to make amends with his son. The son blames him for his mother's death and ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Wild Strawberries
After exploring his disillusionment with religion in his previous films, Ingmar Bergman adopted a humanistic approach for this classic study in isolationism. Legendary Scandinavian director ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
The Mark of the Hawk
Filmed on location in Africa, Mark of the Hawk stars Sidney Poitier as a London-educated African who returns to his homeland to ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
The Tin Star
Taciturn marshal-turned-bounty hunter Henry Fonda rides into a small town where greenhorn deputy Anthony Perkins is sole representative of the law. Sensing that ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
The River's Edge
A bank robber's avarice and obsessive quest for freedom lead to his downfall in this adventure-packed crime drama that was shot on location in Mexico. After lifting a cool million from ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Peyton Place
Grace Metalious' once-notorious bestseller Peyton Place is given a lavish -- and necessarily toned-down -- film treatment in this deluxe 20th Century-Fox production. Set during WWII, the film concentrates on several denizens of the outwardly ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
The Seventh Seal
Endlessly imitated and parodied, Ingmar Bergman's landmark art movie The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) retains its ability to hold an audience spellbound. Bergman regular Max von Sydow stars as a 14th century ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Flor de Mayo
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman (Pedro Armendariz) lives with his wife ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Old Yeller
Based on the novel by Fred Gipson, Old Yeller is set in Texas in 1869. While his father is away on a cattle drive, 15-year-old Travis Coates (Tommy Kirk) takes over management of the family farm. Adopting a "strictly business" policy, Travis ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
The Three Faces of Eve
When Alistair Cooke shows up to introduce Three Faces of Eve, we know that the fact-based story will bear more than a little fidelity to truth. Joanne Woodward won an Academy Award for her portrayal ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Decoy [TV Series]
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Throne of Blood
Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Nights of Cabiria
Nights of Cabiria opens with Cabiria (Giulietta Masina) and her boyfriend playfully embracing by the ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Zero Hour
This suspenseful air-borne adventure can rightfully lay claim to being the Mother of All subsequent in-flight disaster films of the '70s. ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Sayonara
Sayonara takes its own sweet time to unfold; in so doing, it permits us to make intimate acquaintance with ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Fear Strikes Out
Anthony Perkins stars as troubled baseball great Jimmy Piersall in Fear Strikes Out. Based on ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Il Grido
The grim, drab life of a man who labors in a Po Valley sugar refinery in northern Italy provides the center of this black-and-white drama from Michelangelo Antonioni. ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Better known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this opulent French production is the second talkie ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
The Lower Depths
Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorky's play The ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Studio One: The Night America Trembled
The prestigious CBS dramatic anthology Studio One launched its tenth season on the air with this elaborate dramatization of the nationwide panic which ensued after Orson Welles' famous ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Hellcats of the Navy
Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Le Notti Bianche
Shy young Marcelo Mastroianni ambles across a bridge one evening, where he meets a strange but alluring girl (Maria Schell) who is ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Monkey on My Back
The painfully true story of welterweight boxing champion Barney Ross is detailed in Monkey on My Back. Cameron Mitchell stars as Ross, whose meteoric ring career is interrupted when he joins the ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
The Cranes Are Flying
Based on a play by V. Rusov, the Russian The Cranes are Flying is a love story set during the early years of World War II. With her boyfriend Boris ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Teenage Doll
The Teenage Doll in this Roger Corman-directed "J. D." opus is a little number named Barbara (June Kenney). Basically a good girl, she falls into bad company when she ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
The Defender
This gripping courtroom drama -- originally broadcast live on the television series ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
A Matter of Dignity
Best known for their award-winning Zorba the Greek, director Michael Cacoyannis and writer Walter Lassally tackle both the grievous flaws in a selfish approach ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex looks just like what it was: a photographed stage play. Any cinematic deficiencies are, however, quickly forgotten as the "magic" of the Sophocles tragedy ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Rock, Baby, Rock It
A handful of youthful rock & roll fans take on organized crime in this vintage rock musical. A rundown Dallas dance hall has been rented by a pack of high-school kids who've turned it into the Texas Hot Rock Club, where they host jam ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Mother India
Bharat Mata (Mother India) was Indian filmmaker Mehboob Khan's remake of his own 1940 film Aurat (Woman). The intervening years had somewhat altered Mehboob's ... [ Drama movie - 1957 ]
Cielito Lindo
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Alma de Acero
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