1957 Chronicle of The Cinema
Annual looks at The Best Films from around the world.
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- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCary GrantDeborah KerrRichard DenningA couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsTatyana SamoylovaAleksey BatalovVasiliy MerkurevVeronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKirk DouglasRalph MeekerAdolphe MenjouAfter a failed attack on a German position, a general orders three soldiers, chosen at random, court-martialed for cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowGunnar BjörnstrandBengt EkerotA knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsVictor SjöströmBibi AnderssonIngrid ThulinAfter living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJames StewartMurray HamiltonPatricia SmithCharles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsRock HudsonRobert StackDorothy MaloneStory of the fraught friendship between an eccentric journalist and a team of daredevil flying acrobats.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsGiulietta MasinaFrançois PérierFranca MarziA waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMinoru ChiakiIsuzu YamadaA war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsBurt LancasterKirk DouglasRhonda FlemingLawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
- DirectorMehboob KhanStarsNargisSunil DuttRajendra Kumar TuliIn this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsAnthony QuinnAnna MagnaniAnthony FranciosaAn immigrant Nevada rancher brings a woman from Italy to be his second wife, but when he neglects her she becomes involved with his trusted assistant.
- DirectorJoshua LoganStarsMarlon BrandoRicardo MontalbanPatricia OwensA US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsEva Marie SaintDon MurrayAnthony FranciosaA Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsTyrone PowerMarlene DietrichCharles LaughtonA veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsLana TurnerLee PhilipsLloyd NolanA peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.
- DirectorCharles VidorJohn HustonStarsRock HudsonJennifer JonesVittorio De SicaAn English nurse and an American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War 1 fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them challenge their romance to the limit.
- DirectorNunnally JohnsonStarsJoanne WoodwardDavid WayneLee J. CobbA doctor treats a woman suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsMontgomery CliftElizabeth TaylorEva Marie SaintA student falls in love with a Southern belle, but their relationship is complicated by her troubled past and the onset of the Civil War.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsRobert MitchumDeborah KerrDuring World War II, an American marine and an Irish nun form an unlikely friendship after being stranded on a South Pacific island. They find comfort in one another while hoping for a rescue, as they try to avoid capture by the Japanese.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsDon MurrayE.G. MarshallNancy MarchandFive 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.
- DirectorStanley DonenStarsAudrey HepburnFred AstaireKay ThompsonAn impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsGene KellyMitzi GaynorKay KendallThe former members of a dance troupe are suing because of recently published memoirs. Each one insists on own point of view.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsRita HayworthFrank SinatraKim NovakJoey Evans is a charming, handsome, funny, talented 1st class, A-Number 1 heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl and now rich widow Vera Simpson, the pair of lecherous souls seem made for each other.
- DirectorDick PowellStarsRobert MitchumCurd JürgensDavid HedisonDuring WWII an American destroyer discovers a German U-boat, and in the ensuing duel the American captain must draw upon all his experience to defeat the equally experienced German commander.
- DirectorArne SkouenStarsJack FjeldstadHenny MoanAlf MallandDuring World War II, nine members of the Norwegian Resistance are trapped by the Germans in a deadly ambush. Only one escapes, and a fierce hunt through the ice desert has begun.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsPierre BrasseurGeorges BrassensHenri VidalAn old bum becomes infatuated with a pretty young girl who gets entangled with a young gangster.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsClaus HolmMario AdorfHannes MessemerA serial killer strikes again during World War II in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer, but justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsFrank SinatraMitzi GaynorJeanne CrainFrank Sinatra plays Joe E. Lewis, a famous comedian of the 1930s-50s. When the movie opens, Lewis is a young, talented singer who performs in speakeasies. When he bolts one job for another, the mob boss who owns the first speakeasy has his thugs try to kill Lewis. Lewis survives, but his vocal cords are cut and he cannot sing. Several years later, his buddy tracks him down and tries to help him with little success. That attempt, though, leads to Lewis meeting Letty Page (Jeanne Crain). They fall in love and she inspires him to follow up on an offer to become a comedian (a result of his buddy's failed attempt to rejuvenate his singing career). Lewis has problems, though. The assault that nearly cost him his life also helped turn him into an alcoholic and an inveterate gambler. These two character defects become the basis for his act and help to make him a smash success. Unfortunately, they also work to wreak havoc in his personal life.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsAlan LaddClifton WebbSophia LorenA woman who finds a treasure is torn between two men: one who wants to sell it, and one who wants to donate it to Greece.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsGregory PeckLauren BacallDolores GrayA sportswriter and a fashion-designer marry after a whirlwind romance, and discover they have little in common.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsHenry FondaAnthony PerkinsBetsy PalmerA cynical former sheriff turned bounty hunter helps a young, recently appointed acting sheriff with his advice, his experience and his gun.Nova /
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsJames CagneyDorothy MaloneJane GreerThe life and career of vaudevillian and silent-screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.Nova / Film 103
- DirectorMartin RittStarsJoanne WoodwardSheree NorthTony RandallIn California, four couples who have bought houses near one another face problems, alcoholism, racism, promiscuity, and discrimination against lack of education, until a tragic event forces them to reassess their lives.
- DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsMarilyn MonroeLaurence OlivierRichard WattisAn American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsTyrone PowerNoel PurcellCyril CusackThree vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories.
- DirectorGuru DuttStarsGuru DuttWaheeda RehmanMala SinhaVijay, a talented but indigent poet, struggles for love and recognition in this selfish world.
- DirectorMartin RittStarsJohn CassavetesSidney PoitierJack WardenThe growing friendship of two NYC longshoremen is threatened by a notably repellent punk.
- DirectorHenry JacquesYusuf MaloofStarsAmira AmirKamal El-ShinnawiMohamed Al TabaiA Moroccan adaptation of Molière's play.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsRichard ToddWilliam HartnellAkim TamiroffIn 1949, during the Chinese Civil War, British warship H.M.S. Amethyst sails up the Yangtse river but on the return trip, finds its way blocked by a barrage of fire from the Communist Chinese shore batteries.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevStarsNikolay CherkasovYuriy TolubeevSerafima BirmanSenor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard.
- DirectorJosé Luis Sáenz de HerediaStarsMaría FélixFernando Fernán GómezFernando ReyA conquering woman of love, power, and fame, is challenged by the devil, as he too, wants to conquer all.
- DirectorRajbans KhannaThe Buddha rises from a humble priest to a religious icon.
- DirectorJules DassinStarsJean ServaisCarl MöhnerGrégoire AslanAfter WW1,ordinary citizens of a small Greek village plays the Passion Play in order to rebel against Turkish rulers during Turkish-Greek relations in 1920's.
- DirectorGeorges NasserStarsLaura AzarTannous DikShakib KhouriA family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. One day the father abandons his family and leaves for Brazil, considered an Eldorado by a great number of his compatriots. Twenty years pass. The mother raised her children with great difficulty: the elder has a family and the younger one is getting ready to immigrate to Brazil. One day a ragged old man arrives to the village.
- DirectorVictor IliuStarsConstantin CodrescuGeo BartonIoana BulcaFollows the inner transformation of a man who tried to fight his demon, the love for money, and lost.
- DirectorPer HøstAnders PenthaStarsKaren Anna LogjeKlemet VeimelMatti Mikkel SaraDocumentary about the ethnic minority Sami people, indigenous to Norway.
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsShinjirô EbaraEijirô TônoYûko MochizukiThe heroes and heroines are all rice farmers, struggling to eke out an existence in an unfriendly world.
- DirectorWolfgang StaudteStarsMaria SchellRaf ValloneKäthe GoldRose Bernd, a pretty farm girl, attracts the men around her against her will. Not only her boss, Christoph Flamm, a rich landowner married to an invalid woman but also Arthur Streckmann, a virile excavator driver. Both manage to make love with her, which results in her falling pregnant. Rose's father decides to lodge a complaint but while in the street on her way to the law court Rose gives birth to her baby.
- DirectorMárton KeletiStarsMari TörőcsikMarianne KrencseyLajos ÖzeA police inspector tries to set two juvenile delinquents straight.
- DirectorSadao ImamuraJapan's first nature documentary covers the high, snow capped, Alps-like mountain ranges, the struggle for survival among those who live there, and the natural wildlife .
- DirectorMilos MakovecStarsGustáv ValachStanislav FiserVladimír HlavatýDuring the Silesian Wars, three Austrian soldiers desert and hide with a farmer's family. When Prussian hussars pursue them, the soldiers must fight to defend the innocent people.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsTeresa IzewskaTadeusz JanczarWienczyslaw GlinskiIn 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsBetta St. JohnWilliam SylvesterMichael CraigSet on an island off Nova Scotia, Canada, the jealousies and loves of the islanders unfold at a casual pace until economic necessity drives them to the mainland.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsJacqueline SassardRaf MattioliSylva KoscinaA teenage girl vacations in the Italian Riviera during the summer with her wealthy parents; as her parents bicker and contemplate divorce, the young girl finds love in the arms of a handsome student.
- DirectorZahari ZhandovStarsBogomil SimeonovSlavka SlavovaGinka StanchevaCustoms, jealousy, friendship and love haul up the lives of the villagers in Bulgarian countryside.
- DirectorKurt Jung-AlsenStarsRudolf UlrichWolfgang KielingHans-Joachim MartensIn 1941, on the Lithuania-East Prussia frontier, 3 German troops try to conceal that they have killed the daughter of their captain.The officer wants to shoot some Lithuanian women to avenge the murder.
- DirectorKhwaja Ahmad AbbasVasili ProninStarsPrithviraj KapoorBalraj SahniNargisThe film is based on travelogues of XV century Russian traveler Afanasy Nikitin called "A journey beyond the three seas"
- DirectorErnst MarischkaStarsRomy SchneiderKarlheinz BöhmMagda SchneiderThe final film in a highly romanticized trilogy about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria finds the young empress traveling throughout Europe.
- DirectorArne SucksdorffStarsChendruGinjoMartin HeldA documentary about the muria people of the Bastar jungle in central India.
- DirectorLouis DaquinStarsNuta ChirleaAna VladescuRuxandra IonescuSet on the eve of the 1907 peasants' revolt and told from the eyes of an orphaned boy, it is the story of the poverty, hardships, oppression and abuses that ordinary Romanian peasants were subjected to during that period.
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsGlenn FordVan HeflinFelicia FarrBroke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade's gang tries to free him.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsAndy GriffithPatricia NealAnthony FranciosaA female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.Film 103
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDan DuryeaJayne MansfieldMartha VickersDan Duryea and his cronies rob a fake spiritualist and then take it on the lam to Atlantic City.
- DirectorRoger VadimStarsFrançoise ArnoulChristian MarquandRobert HosseinIn Venice, a French agent tries to recover printing plates, used to print fake currency, from an ex-Nazi who stole them during WW2.Film 101
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsElsa DanielLautaro MurúaBerta OrtegosaThe House of the Angel focuses on the ruling class in 1920s Argentina, a deeply repressive society where political arguments were often settled by duels, and young women were expected to be totally ignorant of sex.Film 101
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsRyô IkebeKeiko KishiKaoru YachigusaIt's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?Film 102
- DirectorHeinosuke GoshoStarsChikage AwashimaYûnosuke ItôKinuyo TanakaThis is the story of Kiyoshi Yoshida, who feels estranged from both parents after his father returns from war. How the boy adapts to life with the virtual stranger his father has become is the film's focus.Film 102
- DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsMaría FélixPedro InfanteAndrés SolerA white woman enters into a romance with a Mexican Indian. The racial barriers between the lovers prove to be insurmountable, resulting in tragedy.Rare Filmm / Film 102
- DirectorAndrzej MunkStarsKazimierz OpalinskiZygmunt MaciejewskiZygmunt ZintelIn 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. An inquiry immediately follows. Testimony takes the form of flashbacks. Tuszka, the station master, believes Orzechowski was a saboteur; at least one on the inquiry panel agrees. Zapora, the young engineer on the train that hit Orzechowski, gives more complicated testimony about the dead man - stiff-necked, proud, imperious, critical of Zapora and other younger workers. The signalman at the crossing where Orzechowski died also testifies. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect?Film 102 - Man on The Tracks
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsHenry FondaLee J. CobbMartin BalsamThe 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.OKRU
- DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsBurt LancasterTony CurtisSusan HarrisonPowerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.Nova / Film 103
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsGrant WilliamsRandy StuartApril KentAfter Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.Film 103
- DirectorThomas CarrStarsJoel McCreaVirginia MayoBarry KelleyBack from the Civil War, an ex-Yankee officer aids a wagon train of former Confederates settle in a prosperous valley marred by cattle-rustling and land-grabbing feuds.Film 103
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsJack LemmonErnie KovacsKathryn GrantIn post-WWII France, U.S. Army hospital Private Hogan and Captain Lock try to outwit each other on issues such as wooing pretty nurses, accounting for missing medical supplies, organizing unauthorized dances, and influencing their C.O.Nova
- DirectorMitsuo MurayamaStarsYoshirô KitaharaRyûji ShinagawaJunko KanôA ruthless serial killer with a peculiar method of stalking and killing his victims comes face to face with a police officer turned invisible by a scientific experiment. Who will emerge triumphant?Film 103
- DirectorRobert RossenStarsJames MasonJoan FontaineDorothy DandridgeThis drama set during the 1950s on a British-ruled Caribbean island deals with local politics, interracial relationships, social inequality, racism, adultery, and murder.Film 103
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsCary GrantFrank SinatraSophia LorenDuring the Napoleonic Wars, a British captain is sent to Spain to help prevent the French from stealing a powerful cannon.OKRU
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsMaria SchellMarcello MastroianniJean MaraisA humble clerk courts a woman who awaits her lover's return night after night.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsRod SteigerSara MontielBrian KeithAfter the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsPeter FinchMary UreNatasha ParryA doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force both parties to make decisions.Nova
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsCurd JürgensPeter UstinovO.E. HasseShort of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are closing-in.Nova
- DirectorYûzô KawashimaStarsFurankî SakaiSachiko HidariYôko MinamidaIn the last days of the Shogunate, a resourceful grifter seeks to outwit competing prostitutes, rebellious samurai and other inhabitants of a brothel in order to survive the hardened times.Film 103
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsWilliam HopperJoan TaylorThomas Browne HenryThe first U.S. spaceship to Venus crash-lands off the coast of Sicily on its return trip. A dangerous, lizard-like creature comes with it and quickly grows gigantic.
- DirectorMiyoji IekiStarsRentarô MikuniKinuyo TanakaChôko IidaIn a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946.AMO / Nova - Stepbrothers
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsRay MillandAnthony QuinnDebra PagetA murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico. Accompanying them is the rancher's wife, who happens to be the killer's former girlfriend.
- DirectorJohn GoetzFranchot ToneStarsFranchot ToneClarence DerwentDolores DornA retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm. For many years the brother (Uncle Vanya) has sent the farm's proceeds to the professor, while receiving only a small salary himself. Sonya, the professor's daughter, who is about the same age as his new wife, also lives on the estate. The professor is pompous, vain, and irritable. He calls the doctor (Astrov) to treat his gout, only to send him away without seeing him. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. The presence of Yelena introduces a bit of sexual tension into the household. Astrov and Uncle Vanya both fall in love with Yelena; she spurns them both. Meanwhile, Sonya is in love with Astrov, who fails even to notice her. Finally, when the professor announces he wants to sell the estate, Vanya, whose admiration for the man died with his sister, tries to kill him.Rare Filmm / Film 104
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsShadiaFarid El-AtrashAli Abdel AlA satire of sorts about a man and woman forced into a marriage of convenience who gradually fall in love with each other.It’s You My Love
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsBarbara StanwyckBarry SullivanDean JaggerShowdown in Arizona between the Bonnell brothers, U.S.Marshals, and Jessica Drummond, the iron-fist rancher who controls the territory.
- DirectorMichael CarrerasStarsRaymond FrancisJohn PaulKieron MooreA small band of British soldiers is sent on a mission to hold up a German advance.Rare Filmm / Film 104
- DirectorKadiri Venkata ReddyStarsN.T. Rama RaoS.V. Ranga RaoSavitriBalarama promises Subhadra to get his daughter married to her son. But when the Pandavas loses their kingdom to the Kaurava's, Balarama breaks his promise.
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsRichard BurtonCurd JürgensRuth RomanA commander receives a citation for an attack on Erwin Rommel's headquarters, which is actually undeserved, as the commander is unfit for his job. On top of that, unbeknownst to him, his wife is having an affair with one of his officers.
- DirectorDavid FriedkinStarsLeslie NielsenColleen MillerEdward AndrewsAn out-of-work journalist honeymooning in the Ozarks stumbles on a lead that a notorious bank robber is in town and tries to get his story.
- DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsBen PiazzaAnne PearsonLloyd JonesTeenage lovers are continually thwarted in their attempts to get married.Rare Filmm
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsRandolph ScottRichard BooneMaureen O'SullivanAn independent former ranch foreman is kidnapped along with an heiress, who is being held for ransom by trio of ruthless outlaws.
- DirectorRichard C. KahnBill KarnStarsMyron HealeyJean HarveyPaul DubovA composite of three re-edited episodes from the 1952 TV series, Gangbusters, released to theatres in 1957 as a feature film. Gang Busters (1954) was a similar effort.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaMario BavaStarsGianna Maria CanaleCarlo D'AngeloDario MichaelisParis. Young girls are found dead, drained from their blood. A journalist investigates these murders while the beautiful Gisele, from a noble family, tries to seduce him.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoKeizô KawasakiKenji SugawaraYuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is actually the love child of her wealthy businessman father and his ex-secretary.AMO - The Blue Sky Maiden