Movies 1957 Page 50

Burglar Nat Harbin and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah, who has inherited a fortune -- including a renowned...

An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town...

A preacher (George Nader) fears for his family (Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Hovey) after killing a teenage burglar whose father seeks revenge.

A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.

The owner of a tavern is pressured by the local mob to go into business with them, and figures it's better all around if he does that rather than...

Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

A man walks down the exterior staircase of building of flats; he's dressed to go out, taking care to wrap a scarf around his neck. He pauses as he...

An obliging and resourceful peasant made a woodworking machine out of scrap metal bought for two ducks, unaware of the dangers that would await him...

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...

An imprisoned gunfighter must scatter to elude the authorities. Outlaws Bob Ford and Vic Rodell are nabbed, but the governor offers them amnesty in...

1957 Japanese movie.

When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.

Jim Davis is a man on the run. He comes across the body of a dead man wearing the badge of a marshal. He buries the body and takes the badge and...

An incompetent lawyer gets evicted, dons the guise of an old man to gain accommodation, falls for the owner's daughter, then faces numerous...

A turf war between two French villages against a soccer backdrop... Claudius, goalkeeper for Fouzy's team, is traded for a cow and becomes...

A kitten takes to an adult bear's walls with his crayons, while a couple of mice taunt and attempt to ruin his graffiti as well.

hong kong film

In July-August 1957, the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students took place in Moscow. This film showcases ensembles and individual representatives...

The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.

A boy falls into his prehistoric book and falls in love with a cave girl.

A paean to canned food.

A sponsored film promoting the Finnish wood processing and paper industries

A look at the work of the Forestry Commission in Scotland.

Short by Robert Vickrey.

Adaptation of Molière's play of the same name. The story revolves around a wife who plays a trick on her husband to get revenge on him, by agreeing...

Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Émile Cohl, the brilliant inventor and self-taught artist Louis Van Maelder created a body of work of...

A film by Robert Vickrey.

Fine art documentary directed by Mohammad Qoli Sattar.

A visual poem of neutrons exploding and merging, with complex animation and colour effects made possible by the use of a computer. Based on complex...

A documentary short about Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where everyone brings skis with them in the winter and they host The Steamboat Winter Carnival.

Adults must provide teenagers with guidance in social skills if they are to make a harmonious adjustment to social life. The mother and daughter in...

This video was produced by Fr. Patrick Peyton, the famous “Family Rosary Crusade” priest. It is a full-scale drama of the Joyful mysteries of the...

The first in a series of films for the Rural Cinema Scheme in the Orkneys, it records the return to the island of Wyre of Neil Flaws, a farmer, and...

An RKO-Pathe Sportscope focusing on sports played by Basques living along the Spain-France border in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay...

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Robert Snyder's acclaimed 26-minute short following Pablo Casals in Prades during his self-imposed exile from Franco's dictatorship in Spain. In this...

The sea, with its storms, which break and break the waves against the sharp rocks, is the fulcrum of the life of the people of Gallura in Sardinia,...

This RKO-Pathe short film produced with the assistance of the United States Air Force is about the construction of the DEW Line, the Distant Early...

A girl learns how to look after her younger brother.

A PR short that chronicles the Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo, California.