Diane
Movie / 1956-01-12 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Miklós Rózsa
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
The Man with the Golden Arm
Movie / 1955-12-26 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 2
Composed by
Elmer Bernstein
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
It's a Dog's Life
Movie / 1955-12-23 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
A bull terrier tells his life story, from the streets of the Bowery to a life of luxury.
The Rains of Ranchipur
Movie / 1955-12-14 / United States / Releases: 4 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Hugo Friedhofer
India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in love with an indian doctor, Dr. Safti. She also meets an old friend of hers, the alcoholic Tom Ransome. An awful earthquake is followed by days of rain.
Un jardin public
Movie / 1955-10-26 / France / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Jean Prodromidès
Short movie starring Marcel Marceau.
Seven Cities Of Gold
Movie / 1955-10-07 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Hugo Friedhofer
In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
The Desperate Hours
Movie / 1955-10-05 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Geil Kubik
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Movie / 1955-10-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Leigh Harline
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White and the wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw. Nesbit marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. A fictionalized account of true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.
Don Camillo e l'on. Peppone
Movie / 1955-09-29 / Italy / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
The Tall Men
Movie / 1955-09-22 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Victor Young
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Movie / 1955-08-18 / United States / Releases: 4 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Alfred Newman
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
To Catch a Thief
Movie / 1955-08-03 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Lyn Murray
When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.
Land of the Pharaohs
Movie / 1955-07-24 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Dimitri Tiomkin
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
The Kentuckian
Movie / 1955-07-22 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Bernard Herrmann
A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
House of Bamboo
Movie / 1955-07-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Leigh Harline
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
Moonfleet
Movie / 1955-06-24 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Miklós Rózsa
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
The Seven Year Itch
Movie / 1955-06-03 / United States / Releases: 4 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Alfred Newman
With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from the apartment above catches his eye and they soon start spending time together—maybe a little too much time!
Soldier of Fortune
Movie / 1955-05-24 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Hugo Friedhofer
An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. After getting nowhere with the authorities, she is led by some underground characters to an American soldier of fortune working in the area against the Communists. He promises to help find her husband.
Continente perduto
Movie / 1955-05-10 / Italy / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Three directors collaborated on the Italian documentary Continente Perduto. The "lost continent" of the title is Asia, specifically Indonesia, here lovingly photographed in Ferraniacolor by Mario Craveri, Giannni Rafaldi and Franco Bernetti. Highlights include a Cantonese wedding aboard a floating junk, the annual wheat and rice harvest, the animal-sacrifice rites at the rim of a volcano, a ceremonial chariot race, and a bevy of Balinese dancers. Though there's no story to speak of, the film has the rhythm and pace of a "continuity" picture. Continente Perduto was the winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Conquest of Space
Movie / 1955-04-20 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Nathan van Cleave
A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
A Man Called Peter
Movie / 1955-03-31 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Alfred Newman
Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
The Glass Slipper
Movie / 1955-03-24 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Miklós Rózsa
In a musical retelling of the Cinderella tale, a mistreated scullery maid escapes the oppression of her stepfamily to finding love with a prince.
Untamed
Movie / 1955-03-01 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Franz Waxman
When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.
Many Rivers to Cross
Movie / 1955-02-04 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Miklós Rózsa
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Movie / 1955-02-02 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Henry Mancini
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.