Movies 1956 Page 40

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam...

In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to...

On his way home, Don Simone meets his friend Ciccillo, who asks him for a favor: to entertain the husband of a woman, his lover, until they find the...

On Halloween night, Bugs Bunny, masquerading as a witch, trick-or-treats at the creepy old mansion of Witch Hazel, who prides herself on being the...

A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.

Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate band of passengers must band together to fight them off.

A young woman hires a frontier scout to help her discover if her brother died in an Indian attack on a remote fort.

A concert film made up of performances shown at the final concert of the Decade of Belarusian Art and Literature in Moscow in February 1955.

Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped...

The penniless Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o raddoppia", a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between...

A generous doctor is aghast that the population of a small island is being oppressed and mistreated, but is seemingly unable to do anything about it,...

The whaling captain, Antonio Grez, meets in a bar in the port of Valparaiso a very beautiful woman who lives haunted by the tragic premonition that...

The pioneering trail to Oregon was littered with constant danger. Yet, the hope of the "promised land" keeps American families westward bound despite...

The "Foyer de la Jeune Fille" takes in teenage girls who have no family of their own, their birth not having been well received. As a result of a...

In the small idyllic town Randrup, lives on nature-loving and friendly thatcher Rasmus Thomsen (Oswald Helmuth). In addition to refurbish people's...

Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace,...

This featurette demonstrates how trained dogs are instrumental in helping round up an outlaw Brahma bull which has been plaguing a ranchers pure-bred...

A parable made in the manner of an old silent comedy about artistry and illusion.

Contrasts the traffic court of the horse and buggy era with that of today. Points out that traffic court cases must be kept separate from others and...

A candlemaker entrusts his young son with the task of making candles for their church on Christmas Eve.

An educational film sponsored and distributed by the Los Angeles-based Narcotic Educational Foundation of America and directed by Gilbert Lasky with...

A humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema.

After startling a stork who drops his package, Casper the Friendly Ghost delivers a baby penguin to its parents at the South Pole.

The History and Development of the 35mm Projector

The Dragon Slayer is an animated cartoon in Technicolor., and is the first film of Peanuts director Bill Melendez. It was commissione by Du Pont to...

Magazine film for children showing Dan Maskell giving tennis tips; a model railway at Cirecester; a collection of money-boxes; and, a family which...

A husband-and-wife dance team works smoothly onstage, but backstage it's one long fight because the wife is observing a "special date", and the...

A man is haunted throughout his life, by a magical door that opens onto an alternate, Garden-of-Eden like world.

Wally and Eddie are on their way to Reno to win enough money to pay for a little boy's operation. On the way, their car is stolen by two girls and...

The near-sighted one decides to take a hunting-and-fishing trip, and hires a Native American guide. He quickly grows impatient with the guide and...

The young man, played by Stan Brakhage, gets himself into a seriously comic mix-up by indulging in semi-sexual fantasies, and allowing the fantasies...

Bob Jackson wakes up with his pants hanging low. E.Z. Webster enters the apartment and Bob tells him that he can only afford to spend $5.00 but...

A young girl, normal in every way, is affected with severe epilepsy.

The Ghostly Trio give Casper the Friendly Ghost a pill to make him as mean as they are.

Sam acquires and ostrich from which hatches, no surprise, an ostrich. The ostrich attach's itself to Sam, in addition to eating everything in sight,...

In Judge Wimpy's courtroom, Bluto accuses Popeye of assault and battery; he claims to have been attacked by him on several occasions, without...