Mon, Apr 2, 1956
Stephen Young has lived for three years on a primitive island in the East Indies. He is lazy and selfish and makes his living beachcombing. But now a new interest comes into his life. Two women are in love with him, and he makes the most of this interesting situation - until he finds that he has released a force that he cannot control.
Mon, Apr 23, 1956
Paul Nueller, a slow-witted merchant seaman, returns after fifteen years to the Austrian village that nicknamed him "Dunce." He has come to avenge the death of his sole benefactor, found dead in the street six months before. His old persecutors and his fists soon land him in trouble.
Mon, Jun 25, 1956
David and Phyllis Butler call their eight-year-old daughter "Miss Mitty" because in the secret world of her imagination she is so many different people, never just Susan Butler. However, they are worried because she seems incapable of distinguishing between the truth and falsehood. When she comes home with the story of a man who jumped out of the hedge with a pair of scissors and tried to snip off her pigtails, they don't know whether or not she is telling the truth.
Mon, Jul 9, 1956
Rachel Carver has just been released after three years' imprisonment in China. Physically, she is healthy; mentally, she feels a little unbalanced and afraid of the outside world. However, there must come a day when she has to face that world, and when it comes, she'll have to face it alone.
Mon, Oct 29, 1956
The small Bavarian village of Katzenhausen boasts an unusual attraction in Kurt "Scarface" Remo, a deported American Public Enemy No. 1, now restricted to the confines of his birthplace for the remainder of his days. The quiet of the village is shattered when an American newpaperwoman arrives there to interview the former gangster - and uncovers the most fantastic story of her career.
Mon, Nov 5, 1956
Captain Hugh Diamond, a Special Branch officer, tracks an agent of a South American monarchist party on a ship from Tangiers bound for London. The agent, Felipe Nagy, and his female accomplice plan to steal the Crown of Destiny from the Trafalgar museum, where it is on show. They plan then to return it to a South American republic and exploit it to destabilise the country. When Diamond is knocked unconscious by Nagy, the latter succeeds in stealing the crown. His plot to smuggle the crown out of the country by helicopter is foiled by Diamond with the help of Ronnie, a photographer.
Mon, Nov 12, 1956
A mother and father in a working class village in Wales await the arrival of their son who is being released from prison after serving a two-year sentence. The man, however, has written to his parents saying that he may go to London instead of returning home. The couple wait anxiously at home to see what their son will do.
Mon, Nov 26, 1956
The city of Baghdad in the days of the Arabian Nights endures a reign of terror when the ruler, Shayer. discovers that his wife has been unfaithful. Following the executions of his wife and her lover, Shayer has taken more than 700 of Islam's most beautiful women for his brides. However, because he believes that the only chaste wife is a dead one, he has all of his wives beheaded the morning after the wedding. He then meets Scheherezade.
Mon, Dec 3, 1956
Royal Belfont, a U.S. war hero and Air Force General, whose hobby is mountaineering, celebrates his retirement into civilian life by taking his 15 year-old son, Tony, on a climbing holiday in the Bavarian Alps. Tony hero worships his famous father and is desperately anxious not to disappoint him. He dare not confess that he suffers from acrophobia, a fear of heights, but determines to try and conquer his fear secretly.