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Female Jungle (1956) on 16 june 1956
, 1h13Directed by Bruno VeSota
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Lawrence Tierney, Kathleen Crowley, John Carradine, Jayne Mansfield, Davis Roberts, Bruno VeSota
Rating55%
A cop (Tierney) is suspected of killing a gorgeous film star. Since he was extremely drunk at the time, even he suspects that he did it.
I Killed Wild Bill Hickok (1956) on 16 june 1956
, 1h3Directed by Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Johnny Carpenter, Denver Pyle, Virginia Gibson, Tom Brown, Helen Westcott, I. Stanford Jolley
Rating43%
Des marchands de chevaux rivaux s'affrontent dans le Far West.
The Catered Affair (1956) on 14 june 1956
, 1h32Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald, Rod Taylor, Robert F. Simon
Rating73%
Agnes Hurley (Davis) is a frowsy and disillusioned housewife, married to Bronx cabdriver Tom Hurley (Borgnine). She wants something better for her daughter, Jane (Reynolds). When Jane announces her engagement to Ralph Halloran (Taylor), Aggie sees this as an opportunity to have an elaborate wedding, with caterers and all the trimmings, despite the fact that the family cannot afford it, the daughter does not want it and her husband was planning on using the money to purchase a taxi medallion and become self-employed. The film deals with the ensuing conflicts within the family, which also involve Uncle Jack Conlon (Fitzgerald) and most of the neighborhood. It is not until the end of the film that the vain mother realizes what a fool she has been in forcing her own fantasy onto her family.
A Kiss Before Dying (1956) on 12 june 1956
, 1h34Directed by Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward, Mary Astor, George Macready
Rating66%
Bud Corliss (Robert Wagner) is an ambitious student who is wooing Dorothy Kingship (Joanne Woodward) purely for her father's mining fortune. When he discovers that Dorothy is pregnant with his child, he realizes she is quite likely to be disinherited by her wealthy family. He assures Dorothy that he'll take care of her, yet he hesitates when Dorothy insists on marrying. Bud then murders Dorothy and stages it in a way that it appears to be a suicide. He then reaches out to her sister Ellen (Virginia Leith) with the hopes of marrying her in order to ingratiate himself with her father. After a couple of months Ellen finds evidence to question the suicide verdict, and then discovers that Bud knew Dorothy. Ellen struggles to avenge her sister and save her own life.
The Naked Hills (1956) on 17 june 1956
, 1h12Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors David Wayne, Keenan Wynn, James Barton, James Barton, Jim Backus, Denver Pyle
Rating55%
Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper employed by Willis Haver. Six years later, Powell returns to Indiana and his sweetheart, Julie. They marry and he tries farming again but, on the night their son is born, he takes off again searching for gold. This time he heads for the hills with an inveterate prospector, Jimmo McCann. A decade later, the two are still hunting for their big strike when McCann is killed in an accident. Powell returns home with news of a big strike but the deserted Julie will have nothing to do with him. His friend Killian will not believe him but Haver, now a banker gives him a small loan and then beats him out of his claim. Many years pass before he comes home, now sixty-years-old, and this time, his wife and son open their home to him. But he vows to go prospecting come next spring.
The Oklahoma Woman (1956) on 15 june 1956
, 1h13Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Action, Musical, Romance, Western
Actors Peggie Castle, Richard Denning, Cathy Downs, Mike Connors, Dick Miller, Jonathan Haze
Rating44%
Returning to town to claim a ranch as an inheritance, Steve Ward gets involved in a local election and the ambitions of a saloon owner, Marie "Oklahoma" Saunders.
The Proud and Profane (1956) on 13 june 1956
, 1h51Directed by George Seaton, Joseph L. McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter, Dewey Martin, William Redfield, Ross Bagdasarian
Rating61%
In Noumea, New Caledonia 1943, Lee Ashley (Kerr), the widow of a Paramarine Lieutenant killed on the Battle of Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal has joined the American Red Cross on the island to entertain American servicemen. Her leader at the service club, Kate Connors (Ritter) had initially been reluctant to have her assigned to New Caledonia lest she use her position as a pilgrimage to find out about her late husband. In addition to entertaining, serving the soldiers and giving French lessons, the Red Cross women are expected to help with the wounded — which Lee initially refuses to do.
The Black Sleep (1956) on 15 june 1956
, 1h22Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Patricia Blair
Rating60%
Set in England in 1872, the story concerned a prominent, knighted surgeon whose wife has fallen into a coma caused by a deep-seated brain tumor. Due to medicine's state of the art at the time, he does not know how to reach the tumor without risking brain damage or death to the woman he loves, so he undertakes to secretly experiment on the brains of living, but involuntary, human subjects who are under the influence of a powerful Indian anesthetic, Nind Andhera, which he calls the "Black Sleep". Once he has finished his experiment, surviving subjects are revived and placed, in seriously degenerated and mutilated states, in a hidden cellar in the gloomy, abandoned country abbey where he conducts his experiments.
Abdullah's Harem (1955) on 13 june 1956
, 1h43Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Kay Kendall, Sydney Chaplin, Gregory Ratoff, Alexander D'Arcy, Marina Berti
Rating49%
The film is set in a Middle Eastern country whose absolute ruler, Abdullah (Gregory Ratoff), lives a life of great luxury, surrounded by lovely women. When Ronnie, a beautiful English model (Kay Kendall), arrives, Abdullah falls for her and offers her great riches. She resists his advances as she is more interested in Ahmed (Sydney Chaplin), an officer in the King's army. While this is going on, Abdullah is unaware of the growing discontent among his subjects which threatens to overthrow him.
Star in the Dust (1956) on 13 june 1956
, 1h20Directed by Charles F. Haas
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Agar, Mamie Van Doren, Richard Boone, Coleen Gray, Leif Erickson, James Gleason
Rating59%
Gunlock's town sheriff (Agar) is planning to hang Sam Hall (Boone) for shooting three farmers found on cattle land at sundown. At the casino, betting odds are 8 to 3 he won't make it. The cattlemen are set to rescue Sam; the farmers hope to lynch him before he can be rescued. Hall schemes for escape with his girl Nellie (Coleen Gray). Sheriff Jorden is most concerned with finding out who hired Hall; a leading suspect is the sheriff's future brother-in-law.