Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
The Absent-Minded Professor |
Robert Stevenson |
Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk |
Comedy |
Disney; remade in 1997; 3 Oscar nominations |
Ada |
Daniel Mann |
Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfred Hyde-White, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker |
Political drama |
MGM; based on novel by Wirt Williams |
All in a Night's Work |
Joseph Anthony |
Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Cliff Robertson |
Romantic comedy |
Paramount |
All Hands on Deck |
Norman Taurog |
Pat Boone, Barbara Eden |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
Angel Baby |
Paul Wendkos |
George Hamilton, Mercedes McCambridge, Joan Blondell |
Drama |
Allied Artists |
Aquamania |
Wolfgang Reitherman |
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Animated |
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Armored Command |
Byron Haskin |
Howard Keel, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman |
War |
Allied Artists |
Atlantis, the Lost Continent |
George Pal |
John Dall, Edward Platt |
Science fiction |
MGM |
Babes in Toyland |
Jack Donohue |
Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello, Ray Bolger, Ed Wynn |
Musical |
Disney; based on Victor Herbert operetta |
Bachelor in Paradise |
Jack Arnold |
Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Paula Prentiss, Janis Paige |
Comedy |
MGM |
Back Street |
David Miller |
Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles |
Drama |
from Fannie Hurst novel; remake of 1932 and 1941 |
The Beast of Yucca Flats |
Coleman Francis |
Tor Johnson |
Sci-fi |
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Beep Prepared |
Chuck Jones |
voice of Paul Julian |
Animated |
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The Big Bankroll |
Joseph M. Newman |
David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Diana Dors |
Crime |
aka King of the Roaring '20s |
The Big Gamble |
Richard Fleischer |
Stephen Boyd, Juliette Greco, David Wayne |
Adventure |
20th Century Fox |
Blast of Silence |
Allen Baron |
Allen Baron, Larry Tucker |
Thriller |
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Bloodlust! |
Ralph Brooke |
Robert Reed, June Kenney |
Horror |
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Blue Hawaii |
Norman Taurog |
Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury |
Musical |
Paramount |
Boys Beware |
Sid Davis |
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Documentary |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's |
Blake Edwards |
Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Buddy Ebsen, Patricia Neal, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney |
Drama |
based on Truman Capote story; won 2 Oscars |
Bridge to the Sun |
Étienne Périer |
Carroll Baker, James Shigeta |
Drama |
MGM |
By Love Possessed |
John Sturges |
Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Jason Robards |
Drama |
United Artists |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
The Children's Hour |
William Wyler |
Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner |
Drama |
from Lillian Hellman play; 5 Oscar nominations |
Claudelle Inglish |
Gordon Douglas |
Diane McBain, Arthur Kennedy, Chad Everett |
Drama |
Warner Bros. |
The Comancheros |
Michael Curtiz |
John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin |
Western |
20th Century Fox; final film for Curtiz |
Come September |
Robert Mulligan |
Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Bobby Darin, Sandra Dee |
Comedy |
Universal |
Creature from the Haunted Sea |
Roger Corman |
Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland |
Science fiction |
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Cry for Happy |
George Marshall |
Glenn Ford, Donald O'Connor, James Shigeta |
Comedy |
Columbia |
Daffy's Inn Trouble |
Robert McKimson |
voice of Mel Blanc |
Animated |
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The Deadly Companions |
Sam Peckinpah |
Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Chill Wills |
Western |
Peckinpah's first film |
The Devil at 4 O'Clock |
Mervyn LeRoy |
Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, Grégoire Aslan |
Disaster |
Columbia |
Dondi |
Albert Zugsmith |
David Janssen, Patti Page, Walter Winchell |
Comedy |
based on comic strip |
Down and Outing |
Gene Deitch |
voice of Allen Swift |
Animated |
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El Cid |
Anthony Mann |
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page, Herbert Lom |
Historical epic |
Allied Artists; 3 Oscar nominations |
The Errand Boy |
Jerry Lewis |
Jerry Lewis, Brian Donlevy |
Comedy |
Paramount |
Everything's Ducky |
Don Taylor |
Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Jackie Cooper |
Comedy |
Columbia |
The Exiles |
Kent Mackenzie |
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Documentary |
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The Explosive Generation |
Buzz Kulik |
William Shatner, Patty McCormack |
Drama |
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Fanny |
Joshua Logan |
Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer |
Drama |
5 Oscar nominations |
A Fever in the Blood |
Vincent Sherman |
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Angie Dickinson, Don Ameche |
Crime drama |
Warner Bros. |
Five Golden Hours |
Mario Zampi |
Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse |
Crime comedy |
Columbia |
Five Minutes to Live |
Bill Karn |
Johnny Cash, Cay Forrester |
Crime drama |
written by Forrester |
Flight of the Lost Balloon |
Nathan Juran |
Mala Powers |
Sci-fi |
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Flower Drum Song |
Henry Koster |
Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Jack Soo, Miyoshi Umeki |
Musical |
Universal; based on play; 5 Oscar nominations |
Francis of Assisi |
Michael Curtiz |
Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman |
Drama |
Fox |
The George Raft Story |
Joseph M. Newman |
Ray Danton, Jayne Mansfield, Julie London |
Biography |
|
Gidget Goes Hawaiian |
Paul Wendkos |
Deborah Walley, James Darren |
Comedy |
sequel to Gidget |
Gold of the Seven Saints |
Gordon Douglas |
Clint Walker, Roger Moore |
Adventure |
Warner Bros. |
Goodbye Again |
Anatole Litvak |
Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins |
Drama |
based on Françoise Sagan novel |
The Great Impostor |
Robert Mulligan |
Tony Curtis, Edmond O'Brien, Karl Malden |
Biography |
based on Robert Crichton book |
Havoc in Heaven |
Wan Laiming |
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Animated |
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Hercules in the Haunted World |
Mario Bava |
Reg Park, Christopher Lee |
Adventure |
filmed in Italy |
Homicidal |
William Castle |
Glenn Corbett |
Suspense |
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The Honeymoon Machine |
Richard Thorpe |
Steve McQueen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss |
Comedy |
MGM; based on play by Lorenzo Semple, Jr. |
Hoodlum Priest |
Irvin Kershner |
Don Murray, Keir Dullea |
Biography |
United Artists |
The Hustler |
Robert Rossen |
Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, Myron McCormick |
Drama |
based on a novel by Walter Tevis; 9 Oscar nominations |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
Judgment at Nuremberg |
Stanley Kramer |
Spencer Tracy, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland |
Drama |
United Artists; Academy Awards for Schell, script; 11 nominations |
King of Kings |
Nicholas Ray |
Jeffrey Hunter, Robert Ryan, Hurd Hatfield, Rip Torn, Siobhan McKenna |
Biblical drama |
MGM; remake of 1927 film |
The Ladies Man |
Jerry Lewis |
Jerry Lewis |
Comedy |
Paramount |
The Last Sunset |
Robert Aldrich |
Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone |
Western |
Universal; based on Howard Rigsby novel |
The Last Time I Saw Archie |
Jack Webb |
Robert Mitchum, Jack Webb, Martha Hyer |
Comedy |
United Artists |
The Lawbreakers |
Joseph M. Newman |
Jack Warden, Vera Miles |
Crime drama |
MGM |
Look in Any Window |
William Alland |
Paul Anka, Gigi Perreau |
Drama |
Allied Artists |
Lover Come Back |
Delbert Mann |
Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Edie Adams |
Romantic comedy |
Universal |
Mad Dog Coll |
Burt Balaban |
John Davis Chandler, Kay Doubleday, Jerry Orbach |
Crime drama |
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A Majority of One |
Mervyn LeRoy |
Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.; based on Leonard Spigelgass play |
Man-Trap |
Edmond O'Brien |
Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Stella Stevens |
Crime drama |
Paramount |
The Mark |
Guy Green |
Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger |
Drama |
Whitman Oscar-nominated |
The Marriage-Go-Round |
Walter Lang |
Julie Newmar, James Mason, Susan Hayward |
Comedy |
Fox; based on Leslie Stevens play |
Master of the World |
William Witney |
Vincent Price, Charles Bronson |
Adventure |
A.I.P. |
The Misfits |
John Huston |
Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift |
Drama |
United Artists; final film for Gable, Monroe |
Misty |
|
Arthur O'Connell |
Family |
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Morgan, the Pirate |
André de Toth |
Steve Reeves |
Adventure |
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Mysterious Island |
Cy Endfield |
Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom |
Science fiction |
Columbia; based on Jules Verne novel |
The Naked Edge |
Michael Anderson |
Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr |
Suspense |
United Artists; final film for Cooper |
Night Tide |
Curtis Harrington |
Dennis Hopper, Marjorie Cameron |
Fantasy |
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Nude on the Moon |
Doris Wishman |
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Adult |
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On the Double |
Melville Shavelson |
Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter |
Comedy |
Paramount |
One-Eyed Jacks |
Marlon Brando |
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado |
Western |
Paramount; only film directed by Brando |
One Hundred and One Dalmatians |
3 directors |
Ben Wright, Betty Lou Gerson, Rod Taylor (voices) |
Animated |
Disney; live-action remake in 1996 |
One, Two, Three |
Billy Wilder |
James Cagney, Horst Bucholtz, Pamela Tiffin |
Comedy |
United Artists; Cagney's last film until 1981 |
The Outsider |
Delbert Mann |
Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Bruce Bennett |
Biography |
Universal; story of Ira Hayes |
The Parent Trap |
David Swift |
Hayley Mills, Brian Keith, Maureen O'Hara |
Comedy |
Disney; remade in 1998 |
Paris Blues |
Martin Ritt |
Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward |
Comedy |
United Artists |
Parrish |
Delmer Daves |
Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden |
Drama |
Warner Bros. |
The Phantom Planet |
William Marshall |
Coleen Gray |
Sci-fi |
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The Pit and the Pendulum |
Roger Corman |
Vincent Price, John Kerr |
Horror |
from Edgar Allan Poe story |
The Pleasure of His Company |
George Seaton |
Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds, Lilli Palmer, Tab Hunter |
Comedy |
Paramount |
Pocketful of Miracles |
Frank Capra |
Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Peter Falk, Arthur O'Connell, Ann-Margret |
Comedy |
Capra's final film; based on a story by Damon Runyon |
Portrait of a Mobster |
Joseph Pevney |
Vic Morrow, Leslie Parrish |
Crime |
|
Posse from Hell |
Herbert Coleman |
Audie Murphy, Lee Van Cleef, Vic Morrow |
Western |
Universal |
Question 7 |
Stuart Rosenberg |
Michael Gwynn |
Drama |
|
A Raisin in the Sun |
Daniel Petrie |
Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee |
Drama |
Columbia; based on Lorraine Hansberry play |
Reptilicus |
Sidney W. Pink |
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Sci-fi |
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Return to Peyton Place |
José Ferrer |
Carol Lynley, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker |
Drama |
sequel to Peyton Place |
The Right Approach |
David Butler |
Frankie Vaughan, Martha Hyer, Juliet Prowse |
Drama |
20th Century Fox |
Romanoff and Juliet |
Peter Ustinov |
John Gavin, Sandra Dee |
Comedy |
Universal |
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone |
Jose Quintero |
Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty |
Drama |
based on Tennessee Williams play |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
Sail a Crooked Ship |
Irving Brecher |
Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Ernie Kovacs |
Crime comedy |
Columbia |
Sanctuary |
Tony Richardson |
Lee Remick, Yves Montand |
Drama |
20th Century Fox |
The Second Time Around |
Vincent Sherman |
Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
The Secret Ways |
Phil Karlson |
Richard Widmark |
Thriller |
Universal |
The Sinister Urge |
Ed Wood |
Kenne Duncan, Jean Fontaine |
Drama |
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The Sins of Rachel Cade |
Gordon Douglas |
Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Roger Moore |
Drama |
Warner Bros. |
Snow White and the Three Stooges |
Walter Lang |
Three Stooges, Carol Heiss |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
Something Wild |
Jack Garfein |
Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker |
Drama |
United Artists |
Splendor in the Grass |
Elia Kazan |
Warren Beatty, Natalie Wood, Barbara Loden |
Drama |
Warner Bros.; Oscar for writer William Inge |
The Steel Claw |
George Montgomery |
George Montgomery |
Action |
|
Stop, Look and Laugh |
Don Appell, Louis Brandt |
Three Stooges, Paul Winchell |
Comedy |
Columbia |
Summer and Smoke |
Peter Glenville |
Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno, Una Merkel |
Drama |
from Tennessee Williams play; 4 Oscar nominations |
Susan Slade |
Delmer Daves |
Troy Donohue, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire |
Drama |
Warner Bros. |
Tammy Tell Me True |
Harry Keller |
Sandra Dee, John Gavin |
Romance |
2nd in Tammy series |
A Thunder of Drums |
Joseph M. Newman |
Richard Boone, George Hamilton, Luana Patten |
Western |
MGM |
Too Late Blues |
John Cassavetes |
Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens |
Drama |
Paramount |
Town Without Pity |
Gottfried Reinhardt |
Kirk Douglas, E.G. Marshall, Robert Blake |
Drama |
United Artists |
Twist Around the Clock |
Oscar Rudolph |
Chubby Checker, Dion DiMucci |
Musical |
|
Two Loves |
Charles Walters |
Shirley MacLaine, Laurence Harvey |
Romance |
MGM |
Two Rode Together |
John Ford |
James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones |
Western |
Columbia |
Underworld U.S.A. |
Samuel Fuller |
Cliff Robertson, Beatrice Kay |
Film noir |
Columbia |
Very Nice, Very Nice |
Arthur Lipsett |
|
Short subject |
7 min. |
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea |
Irwin Allen |
Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden |
Science fiction |
20th Century Fox; became TV series |
War Is Hell |
Burt Topper |
Audie Murphy |
War |
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West Side Story |
Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins |
Richard Beymer, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland |
Musical |
United Artists; won 10 Oscars; based on stage musical and Romeo and Juliet |
Wild in the Country |
Philip Dunne |
Elvis Presley, Tuesday Weld, Hope Lange |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
X-15 |
Richard Donner |
Charles Bronson, Kenneth Tobey, David McLean, Mary Tyler Moore |
Adventure |
United Artists |
The Young Doctors |
Phil Karlson |
Ben Gazzara, Fredric March, Dick Clark |
Drama |
United Artists |
The Young Savages |
John Frankenheimer |
Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters |
Drama |
United Artists |