Movies 1955 Page 22

Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When...

A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.

Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.

Qing (i.e. Qin) Xianglian was the wife of a man named Chen Shimei, who won the first title of national examination and awarded as husband of the...

A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.

Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive royal romance leads to an escalating series of...

Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in...

A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also...

A small Spanish town is divided between the upper and lower parts. In the wealthy upper part, all the women are barren. Juan from the poor lower part...

In the late afternoon in Kyoto’s Ponto-chō, as Tsuruko, a maiko who had just left Tsurunoya, was crossing a small bridge over the Takase River, a...

In 1880, Osawkie, Kansas is feuding with rival town Mandaroon over which will be county seat, keeping the town's men away from home most of the time....

Fumiko, mother of two and wife to an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful...

Two outlaws are trying to steal a shipment of gold being guarded by Deputy Droopy, and have to keep quiet to avoid alerting the sheriff.

A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate...

A man who has been married four times falls in love again.

Claus, an unhappy 28 year old Norwegian insurance company employee quits his job in Oslo and heads for Sweden in order to figure out who he really...

In bustling era of 19th-century Louisiana, sugar is as valuable as gold, and pirates like Lili Scarlet will do anything to get it. After robbing...

Filmed on a world wide trip by Danny Kaye, this is an examination of the state of children in the third world.

Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a...

This documentary film from the 1950s explains how the citizens of a small midwestern town restore community spirit through a 4-H club.

Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk...

An ex-con is inspired to go undercover and "finger" the mob after finding out his sister is hooked on illegal drugs.

Rhythm and Blues Revue is a plotless variety show, one of several compiled for theatrical exhibition from the made-for-television short films...

Among the strategies that fail in Wile E. Coyote's attempts to catch the Roadrunner: glue on the road, a giant rubber band, an outboard motor in a...

A collaboration between Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt, Aviary is an impression of Union Square. The location held a particular fascination for...

Six people who have emigrated to Israel from different countries are all on a bus traveling through the Negev Desert. They find themselves stranded...

A reverend goes West to a town where the Indians killed his priest-father and burned his church but the local townsfolk are keener about cash than...

A couple who have escaped from the Baltics to Copenhagen are pursued by a KGB officer.

This vintage stage production of Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca was originally mounted and filmed in Milan on September 24, 1955; it stars Renata...

In the quiet village of Poonkulam, Kalyani and Muthayyan are deeply in love. But fate takes a cruel turn when Muthayyan is wrongfully branded a...

A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.

An apple falls on Bugs' head, transporting him back to King Arthur's England.

The wealthy businessman Wu Xiang Fu’s family was trying to win the family’s wealth. The young and widowed two young women did not obey the...

A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper...

Walt Disney animation animated cartoon musical compilation ("The BIG Parade of MIRTH and MELODY"; "Offering hits re-released from 'Make Mine Music'...

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a...

The romantic entanglements of three singers: two boys and a girl who fail in a radio contest and formed a trio.

Sylvester Cat is a lighthouse keeper's mouse-catcher assigned to keep a mouse from unplugging the light. The mouse only wants a good night's sleep...