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by chpknock | created - 24 Oct 2020 | updated - 24 Oct 2020 | PublicUnited Artists 1957 releases
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1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama
The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
Votes: 865,608 | Gross: $4.36M
2. Bailout at 43,000 (1957)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Romance
An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: John Payne, Karen Steele, Paul Kelly, Richard Eyer
Votes: 170
3. The Montecarlo Story (1956)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A deeply-in-debt gambler sets his cap for a beautiful woman, not knowing that she is also penniless.
Director: Samuel A. Taylor | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O'Connell, Jane Rose
Votes: 441
4. Saint Joan (1957)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1456, French King Charles VII recalls the story of how he met the seventeen-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc, entrusted her with the command of the French Army, and ultimately burned her at the stake as a heretic.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, Anton Walbrook
Votes: 1,292
5. Spring Reunion (1956)
Approved | 79 min | Drama
The class of 1941 at Carson High School is holding its 15th reunion. "Boy Most Likely To Succeed" Fred Davis is in town to sell his house before taking a job in San Francisco; he's been ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Pirosh | Stars: Dana Andrews, Betty Hutton, Jean Hagen, Robert F. Simon
Votes: 304
6. Valerie (1957)
Approved | 82 min | Western
After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Peter Walker
Votes: 392
7. The Halliday Brand (1957)
Approved | 79 min | Western
Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Viveca Lindfors, Betsy Blair, Ward Bond
Votes: 516
8. 5 Steps to Danger (1956)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the 1950s, a man's car trip from L.A. to Texas turns into a Cold-War espionage drama after his car breaks down and he accepts a lift from a stranger.
Director: Henry S. Kesler | Stars: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer, Richard Gaines
Votes: 1,157
9. The Bachelor Party (1957)
Approved | 92 min | Drama
Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Don Murray, E.G. Marshall, Nancy Marchand, Carolyn Jones
Votes: 860
10. War Drums (1957)
Approved | 75 min | Western
The friendship between a white man and an Apache chief is tested when they fall in love with the same woman during a time of frontier conflict.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Lex Barker, Joan Taylor, Ben Johnson, Larry Chance
Votes: 387
11. The Pride and the Passion (1957)
132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the Napoleonic Wars, a British captain is sent to Spain to help prevent the French from stealing a powerful cannon.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel
Votes: 3,205 | Gross: $8.75M
12. Outlaw's Son (1957)
Passed | 88 min | Western
The deserted son of an outlaw gets on the town's bad side after his father is framed for the killing a local banker. He later fits into society as a deputy marshal. When the frame-up is later revealed, the deputy becomes lawless only to be rescued by his reformed father.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Dane Clark, Ben Cooper, Lori Nelson, Ellen Drew
Votes: 222
13. The Ride Back (1957)
Not Rated | 79 min | Western
A troubled sheriff, a failure at everything in his life, tries to redeem himself by extraditing a popular gunfighter from Mexico to stand trial for murder.
Directors: Allen H. Miner, Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, Lita Milan, Victor Millan
Votes: 937
14. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner
Votes: 35,720
15. Time Limit (1957)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, War
During the Korean War former prisoner of war, Major Harry Cargill admits to having collaborated with the enemy but military investigator Colonel William Edwards wants the details.
Director: Karl Malden | Stars: Richard Widmark, Richard Basehart, Dolores Michaels, June Lockhart
Votes: 1,254
16. Hidden Fear (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When his sister is arrested in Denmark for murder, American cop Mike Brent aids Danish police with the case and stumbles upon a currency counterfeiting ring.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: John Payne, Alexander Knox, Conrad Nagel, Natalie Norwick
Votes: 346
17. The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
Approved | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
"The Monster That Challenged the World" is a 1957 horror / science fiction movie of when horde of prehistoric mollusk monsters enter the canal system of the California's Imperial Valley and terrorize the populace.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried, Barbara Darrow
Votes: 3,160
18. Baby Face Nelson (1957)
Approved | 85 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
George "Babyface" Nelson became one of the most important gangsters of 1930's Chicago by making brutal robberies. In order to compete with Al Capone, he allied himself with John Dillinger.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke, Leo Gordon
Votes: 781
19. The Girl in Black Stockings (1957)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A party girl is murdered, and everyone at a Utah motel is a suspect.
Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren, John Dehner
Votes: 1,030
20. Chicago Confidential (1957)
Passed | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In Chicago, a crime syndicate tries to take over a labor union by killing its whistle blower treasurer and framing the honest union boss for the murder.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Brian Keith, Beverly Garland, Dick Foran, Douglas Kennedy
Votes: 555
21. Monkey on My Back (1957)
Approved | 94 min | Biography, Drama
The true story of Barney Ross, a World War II hero and champion professional boxer, who became addicted to morphine.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Paul Richards, Jack Albertson
Votes: 386
22. The Big Caper (1957)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A "confidence couple" pose as husband and wife while attempting a bank heist.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Mary Costa, James Gregory, Robert H. Harris
Votes: 881
23. Gunsight Ridge (1957)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Stage line agent investigates a series of robberies by taking the job of a deputy sheriff in a border Arizona town.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Mark Stevens, Joan Weldon, Addison Richards
Votes: 734
24. Trooper Hook (1957)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Western
When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman, Edward Andrews
Votes: 1,005
25. Men in War (1957)
Approved | 102 min | Action, Drama, War
During the Korean War, a battle-worn lieutenant and his platoon are behind enemy lines, and have orders to march to Hill 465 for possible relief.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Phillip Pine
Votes: 2,999
26. The Careless Years (1957)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
High-school girl from a wealthy family falls for a fellow student from a poor family. Both families disapprove; unable to stand the pressure, the couple quit school and flee to Mexico.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, John Larch, Barbara Billingsley
Votes: 228
27. The Big Boodle (1957)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In pre-Castro Cuba, Ned Sherwood is caught between police and counterfeiters.
Director: Richard Wilson | Stars: Errol Flynn, Pedro Armendáriz, Rossana Rory, Gia Scala
Votes: 496
28. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 137,929 | Gross: $8.18M
29. Crime of Passion (1956)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray
Votes: 2,856
30. Drango (1957)
Approved | 92 min | Western
A participant in Sherman's March becomes governor of a Southern city directly affected by the destruction - and they have yet to learn of his involvement.
Directors: Hall Bartlett, Jules Bricken | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Joanne Dru, Julie London, Donald Crisp
Votes: 393
31. The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Crime
When a movie star is kidnapped, everyone thinks it's a publicity stunt. It's not.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Jane Russell, Keenan Wynn, Ralph Meeker, Fred Clark
Votes: 682
32. Legend of the Lost (1957)
Approved | 109 min | Adventure, Drama
American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Kurt Kasznar
Votes: 3,750
33. Bayou (1957)
83 min | Drama
A New York architect meets a Cajun beauty in a remote bayou village.
Director: Harold Daniels | Stars: Peter Graves, Lita Milan, Douglas Fowley, Jonathan Haze
Votes: 197
34. Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Musical
To prove his theory that rock and roll is on its way out, a sociologist tries to convince a "bop" singer to switch to calypso, much to the ire of her Hollywood nightclub manager.
Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: Judy Tyler, Bobby Troup, Margo Woode, Mary Kaye
Votes: 124
35. The Dalton Girls (1957)
Passed | 71 min | Western
Female relatives of the infamous Dalton gang carry on the family tradition.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Merry Anders, Lisa Davis, Penny Edwards, Sue George
Votes: 263
36. The Buckskin Lady (1957)
Passed | 66 min | Western
A tough beautiful, woman is attracted to a new young doctor in town, but has to contend with a reckless gunslinger who wants her at any cost.
Director: Carl K. Hittleman | Stars: Patricia Medina, Richard Denning, Gerald Mohr, Henry Hull
Votes: 147
37. The Delinquents (1957)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama
A frustrated young man, separated from his younger girlfriend, gets involved in a juvenile gang.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Tom Laughlin, Peter Miller, Richard Bakalyan, Rosemary Howard
Votes: 669 | Gross: $1.00M
38. Four Boys and a Gun (1957)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The moving story of four young men struggling against overwhelming odds to remain honest. Crooked employer shorts their earnings; they turn to crime, their first theft ending in tragedy.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Otto Hulett, Robert Dryden, J. Pat O'Malley, Diana Herbert
Votes: 208
39. Gun Duel in Durango (1957)
Approved | 73 min | Western
Ex-outlaw Will Sabre wants an honest life under the alias Dan Tomlinson but his old gang, under new leader Dunsten, wants him back for a new string of armed robberies.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: George Montgomery, Ann Robinson, Steve Brodie, Bobby Clark
Votes: 389
40. Hell Bound (1957)
Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After World War II, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.
Director: William J. Hole Jr. | Stars: John Russell, June Blair, Stuart Whitman, Margo Woode
Votes: 724
41. Hit and Run (1957)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mechanic wants his boss's younger wife for himself, and plans on using a junkyard car to run him over, then dismantling it.
Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Vince Edwards, Dolores Reed
Votes: 578
42. The Iron Sheriff (1957)
Passed | 73 min | Mystery, Western
When the sheriff's son is placed on trial for murdering a stagecoach driver, the sheriff desperately searches for the real killer - and finds the trail leads back to his boy.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Constance Ford, John Dehner, Kent Taylor
Votes: 435
43. Jungle Heat (1957)
Not Rated | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Japanese fifth columnists create havoc in the industries and plantations of Pre-Pearl Harbor Hawaii, until an American doctor helps defeat them.
Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: Lex Barker, Mari Blanchard, James Westerfield, Glenn Langan
Votes: 175
44. Lady of Vengeance (1957)
Approved | 73 min | Drama
A man hires a killer to avenge an innocent girl's death.
Director: Burt Balaban | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Sears, Anton Diffring, Patrick Barr
Votes: 162
45. My Gun Is Quick (1957)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Private eye Mike Hammer passes over beautiful women and corpses to find stolen jewels.
Directors: Victor Saville, George White | Stars: Robert Bray, Whitney Blake, Donald Randolph, Richard Garland
Votes: 760
46. Pharaoh's Curse (1957)
Approved | 66 min | Horror
A crazed Egyptian follows the members of an archaeology expedition and kills them off one by one while getting progressively older.
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Mark Dana, Ziva Rodann, Diane Brewster, George N. Neise
Votes: 757
47. Revolt at Fort Laramie (1957)
Approved | 73 min | Western
At the start of the Civil War, the soldiers manning Fort Laramie are split between Yanks and Confederates but the real threat is the warpath Sioux surrounding them all.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: John Dehner, Gregg Palmer, Frances Helm, Don Gordon
Votes: 439
48. So Lovely... So Deadly (1957)
72 min | Crime, Drama
A recently widowed woman hires a struggling P.I. to spend some time with her stepdaughter, still distraught over her wealthy father's fatal horse-riding accident. He comes to believe it was no accident, and resolves to identify the killer.
Director: Will Kohler | Stars: Henry Beckman, Lucy Prentis, Robert Middleton, Woodrow Parfrey
49. Street of Sinners (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Rookie New York cop has to deal with juvenile delinquents, his superiors, and blame for the suicide of a woman who jumped to her death while he was in her apartment.
Director: William Berke | Stars: George Montgomery, Geraldine Brooks, Nehemiah Persoff, Marilee Earle
Votes: 220
50. Tomahawk Trail (1957)
Approved | 60 min | Western
An incompetent cavalry lieutenant leads his patrol into an Apache ambush on the Tomahawk Trail, gets wounded in a skirmish, and loses the command to his sergeant.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Chuck Connors, John Smith, Susan Cummings, Lisa Montell
Votes: 332
51. The Vampire (1957)
Approved | 75 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A kind, small-town doctor mistakenly ingests pills made from vampire bat blood and they turn him into a dangerous fanged creature.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: John Beal, Coleen Gray, Kenneth Tobey, Lydia Reed
Votes: 1,305
52. Voodoo Island (1957)
Approved | 76 min | Horror
A scholarly type is asked to investigate the possible island site for a large resort hotel--an island rumored to be infested with zombies.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Boris Karloff, Beverly Tyler, Murvyn Vye, Elisha Cook Jr.
Votes: 912
53. Ride Out for Revenge (1957)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Western
When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.
Director: Bernard Girard | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Gloria Grahame, Lloyd Bridges, Joanne Gilbert
Votes: 443
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