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- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsCharlton HestonYul BrynnerAnne BaxterMoses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.Release date October 5, 1956
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Charlton Heston ... Moses
Yul Brynner ... Rameses
Anne Baxter ... Nefretiri
Edward G. Robinson ... Dathan
Vincent Price ... Baka
John Carradine ... Aaron
Academy Awards, USA 1957
NOMINEE Best Picture
NOMINEE Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
NOMINEE Best Cinematography, Color
NOMINEE Best Costume Design, Color
WINNER Best Effects, Special Effects
NOMINEE Best Film Editing
NOMINEE Best Sound, Recording - DirectorErnst MarischkaStarsRomy SchneiderKarlheinz BöhmMagda SchneiderThe second in a trilogy of movies about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria, the film chronicles the married life of the young empress as she tries to adjust to formal and strict life in the palace and an overbearing mother-in-law.Release date 19 December 1956
Directed by Ernst Marischka
Romy Schneider ... Sissi - DirectorCarol ReedStarsBurt LancasterTony CurtisGina LollobrigidaA crippled circus acrobat is torn emotionally between two ambitious young trapeze artists, one a talented young American and a less-gifted but beautiful Italian.Release date May 29, 1956
Directed by Carol Reed
Burt Lancaster ... Mike Ribble
Tony Curtis ... Tino Orsini
Gina Lollobrigida ... Lola - DirectorJoshua LoganStarsMarilyn MonroeDon MurrayArthur O'ConnellA naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.Release date August 31, 1956
Directed by Joshua Logan
Marilyn Monroe ... Chérie
Academy Awards, USA 1957
NOMINEE Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Don Murray) - DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsJean GabinBourvilLouis de FunèsTwo men carry at night four suitcases of contraband meat across German-occupied Paris during WWII. Their opposite personalities and strange encounters provoke different adventures - until they are arrested by the police.Release date September 9 1956
Directed by Claude Autant-Lara
Jean Gabin ... Grandgil
Bourvil ... Marcel Martin
Louis de Funès ... Jambier, l'épicier - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartDoris DayBrenda de BanzieAn American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.Release date April 29, 1956
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart ... Dr. Benjamin McKenna
Doris Day ... Josephine Conway McKenna
Academy Awards, USA 1957
WINNER Best Music, Original Song - DirectorKing VidorStarsAudrey HepburnHenry FondaMel FerrerNapoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.Release date August 21, 1956
Directed by King Vidor
Audrey Hepburn ... Natasha Rostova
Henry Fonda ... Pierre Bezukhov
Anita Ekberg ... Helene Kuragina
Academy Awards, USA 1957
NOMINEE Best Cinematography, Color
NOMINEE Best Costume Design, Color
NOMINEE Best Director - DirectorRichard PottierStarsLuis MarianoBourvilAnnie CordyVincent Etchebar is spotted by the impresario Cartoni who gives him the opportunity to break into Paris. But nothing will go as planned.Release date December 19, 1956
Directed by Richard Pottier
Bourvil ... Bilou - DirectorMichael AndersonJohn FarrowStarsDavid NivenCantinflasFinlay CurrieA Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.Release date October 17, 1956
Directed by Michael Anderson
David Niven ... Phileas Fogg
Shirley MacLaine ... Princess Aouda
John Carradine ... Col. Stamp Proctor
Marlene Dietrich ... Barbary Coast Saloon Owner
Fernandel ... French Coachman
Trevor Howard ... Denis Fallentin
Buster Keaton ... Train Conductor
George Raft ... Barbary Coast Saloon Bouncer
Frank Sinatra ... Barbary Coast Saloon Pianist
Academy Awards, USA 1957
WINNER Best Picture
NOMINEE Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
WINNER Best Cinematography, Color
NOMINEE Best Costume Design, Color
NOMINEE Best Director
WINNER Best Film Editing
WINNER Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
WINNER Best Writing, Best Screenplay - Adapted - DirectorJohn HustonStarsGregory PeckRichard BasehartLeo GennThe sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.Release date June 27, 1956
Directed by John Huston
Gregory Peck ... Captain Ahab
Orson Welles ... Father Mapple - DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsIngrid BergmanYul BrynnerHelen HayesAn opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.Release date December 13, 1956
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Ingrid Bergman ... Anna Koreff
Yul Brynner ... General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine
Academy Awards, USA 1957
WINNER Best Actress in a Leading Role (Ingrid Bergman)
NOMINEE Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture - DirectorRobert D. WebbStarsRichard EganDebra PagetElvis PresleyAt the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for it.Release date November 15, 1956
Directed by Robert D. Webb
Elvis Presley ... Clint Reno - DirectorJean DelannoyStarsGina LollobrigidaAnthony QuinnJean DanetThe timeless tale of the seductive gypsy Esmeralda and the tortured hunchback Quasimodo.Release date December 19, 1956
Directed by Jean Delannoy
Gina Lollobrigida ... Esmeralda
Anthony Quinn ... Quasimodo - DirectorCharles WaltersStarsBing CrosbyGrace KellyFrank SinatraWith socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.Release date July 17, 1956
Directed by Charles Walters
Grace Kelly ... Tracy Lord
Frank Sinatra ... Mike Connor
Celeste Holm ... Liz Imbrie
Academy Awards, USA 1957
NOMINEE Best Music, Original Song
NOMINEE Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsHenry FondaVera MilesAnthony QuayleIn 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.Release date December 13, 1956
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Henry Fonda ... Manny Balestrero - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsElizabeth TaylorRock HudsonJames DeanSprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.Release date October 10, 1956
Directed by George Stevens
Elizabeth Taylor ... Leslie Benedict
Rock Hudson ... Jordan 'Bick' Benedict Jr.
James Dean ... Jett Rink
Dennis Hopper ... Jordan Benedict III
Academy Awards, USA 1957
NOMINEE Best Picture
NOMINEE Best Actor in a Leading Role (James Dean)
NOMINEE Best Actor in a Leading Role (Rock Hudson)
NOMINEE Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Mercedes McCambridge)
NOMINEE Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
NOMINEE Best Costume Design, Color
WINNER Best Director
NOMINEE Best Film Editing
NOMINEE Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
NOMINEE Best Writing, Best Screenplay - Adapted - DirectorJean BoyerStarsFernandelSuzy DelairFred PasqualiA modest tailor the women find irresistible, inherits a fashion house in financial difficulty. Deciding to save it, he prepares a great collection. But after his wife discovers his relationship with one of the mannequins, how can he prevent a scandal without losing both of them?.Release date April 13, 1956
Directed by Jean Boyer
Fernandel ... Fernand Vignard - DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneJeffrey HunterVera MilesAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.Release date May 16, 1956
Directed by John Ford
John Wayne ... Ethan Edwards
Natalie Wood ... Debbie Edwards - Age 15
Mae Marsh ... (uncredited) - DirectorJacqueline AudryStarsDanièle DelormeFernand GraveyFrançois GuérinDuring the First World War, the Empyrée Montmartre, a Paris music-hall, is dedicated to patriotic revues whose star is the charming Mitsou. The young artist is not without talent but she is mainly well-connected. She is indeed the cherished mistress of Pierre Duroy-Lelong, a rich industrialist. One night, thanks to Petite-Chose, an ebullient singer-dancer and her co-star, she gets to know a handsome army, Lieutenant Bleu. Mitsou falls madly in love with him and Lieutenant Bleu is physically attracted to her. The trouble is that Bleu comes from a distinguished family and cannot put up with her lack of culture and artistic bad taste...Release Date December 24, 1956
Directed by Jacqueline Audry - DirectorDouglas SirkStarsRock HudsonLauren BacallRobert StackAlcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister.Release date October 4, 1956
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Rock Hudson ... Mitch Wayne
Lauren Bacall ... Lucy Moore Hadley
Academy Awards, USA 1957
NOMINEE Best Actor in a Supporting Role Robert Stack)
WINNER Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Dorothy Malone)
NOMINEE Best Music, Original Song - DirectorMaurice RégameyStarsFernandelAndrexFrancis BlancheAn ethnologist comes to interview a Marseillais of old stock.Release date December 5, 1956
Directed by Maurice Régamey
Fernandel ... Honoré de Marseille / Protis / Honorius - DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisLori NelsonA rich momma's boy returns west with the son of his murdered father's partner to foil a gang trying to gain control of his family ranch.Release date July 25, 1956
Directed by Norman Taurog
Jerry Lewis ... Wade Kingsley Jr. / Sr.
Lee Van Cleef ... Gus - DirectorGuy LefrancStarsFernand RaynaudNoël RoquevertHenri CrémieuxFernand Jérôme is an ordinary bank clerk whose friends see him as an object of ridicule due to his clumsiness and naivety. All this changes one day when he accidentally foils a bank robbery. Now he is a hero, they look at him differently.Release date 7 March 1956
Directed by Guy Lefranc
Louis de Funès ... L'inspecteur Victor Eugène Merlerin - DirectorMarika BeikuAleksandr GordonAndrei TarkovskyStarsYuliy FaytAleksandr GordonValentin VinogradovTwo men besiege a lunch bar looking for a third man they must kill.Release date 1956
Directed by Marika Beiku, Aleksandr Gordon & Andrei Tarkovsky - DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsJune ForayWilliam HannaTom steals a witch's flying broom so he can scare the wits out of Jerry.Release date January 27, 1956
Directed by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Tom & Jerry - DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsSara BernerA baby woodpecker mistakes Jerry for his mother. The mouse rejects the newly hatched bird but soon finds himself protecting it against his feline nemesis, Tom.Release date March 23, 1956
Directed by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Tom & Jerry - DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsWilliam HannaTom settles in for a day at the beach with his sweety, accidentally ruining Jerry's day. Meanwhile, Tom's girl is paying more attention to the bodybuilders than to Tom.Release date September 7, 1956
Directed by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Tom & Jerry - DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsDaws ButlerPaul FreesA dancing bear, who has escaped from a carnival, uses Tom as his reluctant dance partner.Release date October 21, 1956
Directed by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Tom & Jerry - DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsPaul FreesBob LaztnyJack SabelAs Tom prepares to commit suicide, Jerry recounts the cat's hopeless lover's pursuit of the opportunistic lady that led to this.Release date November 16, 1956
Directed by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Tom & Jerry - DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsDaws ButlerWilliam HannaSpike is showing his son Tyke how to barbecue when his cooking is disrupted by a typical Tom-and-Jerry chase.Release date December 14, 1956
Directed by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Tom & Jerry - DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancJune ForayWitch Hazel's claim to be the ugliest witch of all is threatened by a Halloween witch who turns out to be Bugs trick-or-treating.Release date February 25, 1956
Directed by Chuck Jones
Bugs Bunny - DirectorChuck JonesStarsPaul JulianWile E. Coyote unsuccessfully chases the Road Runner using such contrivances as a rifle, a steel plate, a dynamite stick on an extending metal pulley, a painting of a collapsed bridge (which the Coyote falls into while Road Runner passes right through), and a jet motor.Release date May 5, 1956
Directed by Charles M. Jones
Road Runner - DirectorChuck JonesStarsPaul JulianWile E. Coyote, tired of eating mud, chases after the Road Runner instead.Release date November 10, 1956
Directed by Chuck Jones
Road Runner