1956
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1. Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, Western
Daniel Boone leads settlers into Kentucky, but must battle Shawnee Indians who have been persuaded by a French renegade that Boone and the settlers are there to kill them and steal their land.
Directors: Albert C. Gannaway, Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr., Faron Young, Kem Dibbs
Votes: 347
===> Great Movies Abenteuerfilm-Box
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan
Votes: 54,744
"Die Dämonischen" ===> K137
3.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Silent Vow
(1956)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Colonel March and Inspector Goron are present in a café when a customer dies from poisoned wine.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Eric Pohlmann, Zena Marshall, Anton Diffring
Votes: 58
===> Colonel March Of Scotland Yard Vol. 2 / Alpha Home Entertainment / Episode 14
4.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Error at Daybreak
(1956)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A shady businessman collapses on an oceanside jetty, the apparent victim of a heart attack, but a vacationing March discovers blood and a needle near the body.
Director: Phil Brown | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Robert Brown, Patricia Marmont
Votes: 74
===> Colonel March Of Scotland Yard Vol. 2 / Alpha Home Entertainment / Episode 18
5.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Hot Money
(1956)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A bank robber accuses a prominent attorney of committing the crime.
Director: Donald Ginsberg | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, John Hewer
Votes: 58
===> Colonel March Of Scotland Yard Vol. 2 / Alpha Home Entertainment / Episode 19
6. Raw Edge (1956)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In 1842 lawless Oregon, a gunfighter seeks vengeance when his innocent brother is lynched and his beautiful Indian wife is claimed by the local tyrant.
Director: John Sherwood | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Yvonne De Carlo, Mara Corday, Neville Brand
Votes: 463
===> Koch Media / Western Legenden #43
7. While the City Sleeps (1956)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A serial killer has been killing beautiful women in New York and the new owner of a media company offers a high ranking job to the first of his senior executives who can get the earliest scoops on the case.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff
Votes: 7,080
"While the City Sleeps (engl.) ===> K138
8. The Come On (1956)
83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Unscrupulous con woman gets involved in murder.
Director: Russell Birdwell | Stars: Anne Baxter, Sterling Hayden, John Hoyt, Jesse White
Votes: 277
===> daredo / Edition Film Noir Nr. 4
9. A Day of Fury (1956)
Passed | 78 min | Western
When gunslinger Jagade arrives in a law-abiding god-fearing town he manages to turn the townsfolk into scoff-law sinners while the town Marshal is powerless due to a moral debt to Jagade.
Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Dale Robertson, Mara Corday, Jock Mahoney, Carl Benton Reid
Votes: 501
===> Koch Media Western Legenden #47
10. Star in the Dust (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
A sheriff planning on legally hanging a killer, has to contend with farmers who want to lynch him, and cattlemen who want to help him escape.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: John Agar, Mamie Van Doren, Richard Boone, Coleen Gray
Votes: 661
===> Koch Media / Western Legenden No. 32
11. The Rawhide Years (1956)
Approved | 85 min | Western
Dishonest riverboat gambler Ben Matthews is blamed for a murder he didn't commit and must find the real killer before the lynch mob finds him.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Arthur Kennedy, William Demarest
Votes: 852
===> Koch Media Western Legenden #27
12. The First Texan (1956)
Approved | 82 min | Biography, History, Western
Eastern lawyer Sam Houston moves to Texas. At the request of President Jackson, he leads the Texan independence movement and wins the decisive battle against the Mexican army to gain Texas independence.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Joel McCrea, Felicia Farr, Jeff Morrow, Wallace Ford
Votes: 601
===> Western Classics Edition #2
13. The She-Creature (1956)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Chester Morris, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Lance Fuller
Votes: 1,963
"The She-Creature" (engl.; german UT) ===> K139
14. The Last Wagon (1956)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Western
Wagon train survivors of an Apache attack entrust the sheriff's prisoner, scout Comanche Todd, with their lives despite his wanted-for-murder status.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner, Tommy Rettig
Votes: 3,669
===> Koch Media Western Legenden # 03
15. Showdown at Abilene (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Western
After the Civil War, Confederate Jim Trask returns to his native Abilene to find his sweetheart engaged to his old friend Dave Mosely who's leading the cattlemen in a feud against the farmers.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Martha Hyer, Lyle Bettger, David Janssen
Votes: 371
===> Koch Media Western Legenden #45
16. Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956)
Not Rated | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Ian Hunter
Votes: 4,865
===> K140
17. X the Unknown (1956)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A radioactive, mud-like creature terrorizes a Scottish village.
Directors: Leslie Norman, Joseph Losey | Stars: Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern, Anthony Newley
Votes: 3,263
===> British Horror Classics No. 4 / Anolis
18. The Mole People (1956)
Approved | 77 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Alan Napier
Votes: 3,997
===> Anolis / Die Rückkehr der Galerie des Grauens 08
19. Runaway Daughters (1956)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdemeanors into serious crime - and will suffer for it. Sometimes, repentance comes too late.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Marla English, Anna Sten, John Litel, Lance Fuller
Votes: 167
===> K141
20. Gun for a Coward (1956)
Approved | 88 min | Western
After the death of a rancher, his three sons run the ranch but one of them is seen as a coward because of his aversion to gun-fighting.
Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule, Chill Wills
Votes: 623
===> Koch Media Western Legenden No. 34
21. Rodan (1956)
Approved | 74 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A mining engineer investigates the death of his fellow coworkers and discovers prehistoric nymphs emerging from the mines. As he heads deeper into the mines, he makes a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Akio Kobori
Votes: 5,977 | Gross: $0.50M
===> Kaigu
22. Il cavaliere dalla spada nera (1956)
88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Directors: Ladislao Kish, Luigi Capuano | Stars: Marina Berti, Steve Barclay, Otello Toso, Fulvia Franco
Votes: 25
===> K142
23. The Black Sleep (1956)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Sir Joel Cadman, a mad scientist, kidnaps his victims and cuts open their brains in an effort to discover a means to cure his wife's brain tumor.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine
Votes: 2,038
===> Anolis: Die Rache der Galerie des Grauens #10
24. It Conquered the World (1956)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A well meaning scientist guides an alien monster to Earth from Venus, so that he can rid mankind of feelings and emotions - but only death and sorrow results.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef, Sally Fraser
Votes: 2,667
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