1956 IN FILM

My favourite films released in the U.S. in 1956.








30.         7 MEN FROM NOW

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29.         THE LADYKILLERS

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28.            LUST FOR LIFE

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27.           THE WHITE SHEIK

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26.       SAWDUST AND TINSEL

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25.                   JUBAL

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                    SAMURAI III:

24.    DUEL AT GANRYU ISLAND

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23.         THE WRONG MAN

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22.        THE SILENT WORLD

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21. ALL THE WORLD'S MEMORY

20.            EARLY SPRING

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19.         BOB LE FLAMBEUR

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18.          AUTUMN LEAVES

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17.             RICHARD III

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16.  THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

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15.                 GOJIRA

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14.                   RIFIFI

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13.        THE RED BALLOON

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                     INVASION

12.   OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

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11.             THE KILLING

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10.           NIGHT AND FOG

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9.        THE BURMESE HARP

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8.       WRITTEN ON THE WIND

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7.                UMBERTO D.

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6.           THE SEARCHERS

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5.         FORBIDDEN PLANET

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4.           BIGGER THAN LIFE

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3.                       IKIRU

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2.                  LA STRADA

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1.             SEVEN SAMURAI

*****

ALSO ESSENTIAL. NOT RANKED.
(other titles of '56 I loved that almost placed)

STREET OF SHAME

A SHORT VISION

THE ARTIST AND THE CITY

SUNDAY IN PEKING

ATTACK!

GIANT

BABY DOLL

SKID ROW

FRENCH CANCAN

THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT

MOBY DICK

THE KILLER IS LOOSE

AWAARA  आवारा

... AND GOD CREATED WOMAN

THE BESPOKE OVERCOAT

THE HARDER THEY FALL

LE COUP DU BERGER

THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT

HIGH SOCIETY

THE BAD SEED

THE SHOEMAKER 

OF LOIRE VALLEY

[LE SABOTIER DU VAL DE LOIRE]

THE COURT JESTER

THE BITTER STEMS

SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME

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INVITATION TO THE DANCE

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THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH

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I WILL BUY YOU

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1956
TOP 30

1. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa)
2. LA STRADA (Fellini)
3. IKIRU (Kurosawa)
4. BIGGER THAN LIFE (Nicholas Ray)
5. FORBIDDEN PLANET (Fred M. Wilcox)
6. THE SEARCHERS (Ford)
7. UMBERTO D. (De Sica)
8. WRITTEN ON THE WIND (Sirk)
9. THE BURMESE HARP (Kon Ichikawa)
10. NIGHT AND FOG (Resnais)
11. THE KILLING (Kubrick)
12. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (Siegel)
13. THE RED BALLOON (Albert Lamorisse)
14. DU RIFIFI CHEZ LES HOMMES (Jules Dassin)
15. GOJIRA (Ishiro Honda)
16. TEN COMMANDMENTS (DeMille)
17. RICHARD III (Olivier)
18. AUTUMN LEAVES (Aldrich)
19. BOB LE FLAMBEUR (Melville)
20. EARLY SPRING (Ozu)
21. TOUTE LA MÉMOIRE DU MONDE (Resnais)
22. LE MONDE DU SILENCE (Cousteau/Malle)
23. THE WRONG MAN (Hitchcock)
24. SAMURAI III (Hiroshi Inagaki)
25. JUBAL (Hathaway)
26. SAWDUST & TINSEL (Bergman)
27. LO SCEICCO BIANCO (Fellini)
28. LUST FOR LIFE (Minnelli)
29. LADYKILLERS (Mackendrick)
30. SEVEN MEN FROM NOW (Boetticher)

RUNNER UP
STREET OF SHAME (Mizoguchi), A SHORT VISION (Foldes), ARTIST AND THE CITY (de Oliveira), DIMANCHE A PEKIN (Marker), ATTACK! (Aldrich), GIANT (Stevens), BABY DOLL (Kazan), SKID ROW (Allan King), FRENCH CANCAN (Renoir), THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT (Tashlin), MOBY DICK (Huston), KILLER IS LOOSE (Boe), VAGABOND (Raj Kapoor), AND GOD CREATED WOMAN (Vadim), THE BESPOKE OVERCOAT (Clayton), HARDER THEY FALL (Mark Robson), LE COUP DU BERGER (Rivette), THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (Val Guest), HIGH SOCIETY (Walters), THE BAD SEED (Mervyn LeRoy), LE SABOTIER DU VAL DE LOIRE (Demy), THE COURT JESTER (Frank/Panama), LOS TALLOS AMARGOS (Ayala), SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME (Wise), INVITATION TO THE DANCE (G.Kelly), MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Hitchcock), I WILL BUY YOU (Kobayashi)