1955 year. Motion pictures, movies and films

	Lady and the Tramp [1955, USA] Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance, The most delightful characters in a dog's age! (3 more taglines...)

Director: Clyde Geronimi,   Actors: Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson, Bill Baucom, Stan Freberg, Verna Felton, Alan Reed, George Givot, Dal McKennon, Lee Millar, Bill Lee, Thurl Ravenscroft, Max Smith, Bob Stevens, Story: Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviously from the wrong side of town, but happenings at Lady's home make her decide to travel with him for a while. This turns out to be a bad move, as no dog is above the law. >> Certificates: Australia:G, Iceland:L, Sweden:Btl, Ireland:G, West Germany:o.Al., Argentina:Atp, Chile:TE, Finland:S, Portugal:M/6, Spain:T, UK:U, USA:G,

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	To Hell and Back [1955, USA] Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, War, The Exciting True-Life Story Of America's Most Decorated Hero

Director: Jesse Hibbs,   Actors: Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, Jack Kelly, Gregg Palmer, Paul Picerni, David Janssen, Richard Castle, Bruce Cowling, Paul Langton, Art Aragon, Felix Noriego, Denver Pyle, Brett Halsey, Susan Kohner, Story: True-life account of the military career of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in WWII. Native of Texas, he was placed in charge of his many younger siblings on the death of his mother and decided to join the military at the age of 18 to provide for them. His many acts of bravery and heroism during the US military advance through Italy, Fr... >> Certificates: West Germany:18, USA:Approved, Iceland:12, UK:PG, Finland:K-16, Norway:16, Sweden:15,

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	Bad Day at Black Rock [1955, USA] Genres: Drama, Thriller, Western, Suddenly you realize murder is at your elbow! - and there's no way out!

Director: John Sturges,   Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Russell Collins, Walter Sande, Harry Harvey, Francis McDonald, Story: John J. Macreedy doesn't know it, but when he steps off the train at the jerkwater town of Black Rock, he will soon find himself the object of fear, hatred, and even a murder plot! The altruistic Macreedy came to Black Rock to hand over a posthumous military award to a local man whose son had died gallantly in the Second World War. What Macreedy... >> Certificates: West Germany:12, Australia:PG, Finland:K-12, Norway:16, USA:Approved,

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	Man with the Golden Arm, The [1955, USA] Genres: Drama,

Director: Otto Preminger,   Actors: Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang, Darren McGavin, Robert Strauss, John Conte, Doro Merande, George E. Stone, George Mathews, Leonid Kinskey, Emile Meyer, Jered Barclay, Leonard Bremen, Paul E. Burns, Story: Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into addiction. >> Certificates: Portugal:M/12, USA:Approved, Finland:K-16, Sweden:15, UK:15, Argentina:13,

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	Revenge of the Creature [1955, USA] Genres: Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Weird Monster Escapes! Terror Seizes City! ...a woman's beauty the lure for his dangerous desires! (5 more taglines...)

Director: Actors: John Agar, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva, Grandon Rhodes, Dave Willock, Robert Williams, Charles Cane, Ricou Browning, Mike Doyle, Clint Eastwood, Jack Gargan, Charles Gibb, Brett Halsey, Don C. Harvey, Tom Hennesy, Story: Scientists re-discover Creature! Creature discovers lust! The "Creature From The Black Lagoon" is back and this time he's shipped to Marineland in (north) Florida for study. While in the aquarium he spies the love of his life. Naturally, the creature escapes in pursuit of beauty, down the St. Johns River, all the way to Jacksonville where he kid... >> Certificates: West Germany:16, USA:Approved, USA:Unrated, Finland:K-12, Sweden:15,

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	Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy [1955, USA] Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, It has been said that a man's best friend is his mummy... (2 more taglines...)

Director: Charles Lamont,   Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara, Dan Seymour, Richard Deacon, Kurt Katch, Richard Karlan, Mel Welles, George Khoury, Eddie Parker, Chandra Kaly and His Dancers, Peggy King, Kenneth Alton, Jan Arvan, Story: In Egypt Peter and Freddie find the archaeologist Dr. Zoomer murdered before they can return to America. A medallion leads them to a crypt where a revived mummy provides the terror. >> Certificates: Argentina:Atp, Finland:K-16, Finland:K-16, UK:U, UK:U, USA:Unrated, USA:Unrated,

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	All That Heaven Allows [1955, USA] Genres: Drama, Romance, How much does Heaven Allow a Woman in Love?

Director: Douglas Sirk,   Actors: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbott, William Reynolds, Charles Drake, Hayden Rorke, Jacqueline deWit, Leigh Snowden, Donald Curtis, Alex Gerry, Nestor Paiva, Forrest Lewis, Story: Cary, a wealthy widow, falls in love with the much younger nurseryman, Ron Kirby. This provides gossip for the country club set, and her children are ashamed that she plans to remarry below her station. Ron is an independent man who can ignore the petty conventions of society, but can Cary also ignore them? >> Certificates: South Korea:12, Australia:PG, Australia:PG, Finland:S, Finland:S, Sweden:Btl, Sweden:Btl,

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	Picnic [1955, USA] Genres: Drama, Romance, Electrically attracted to each other...Overwhelmingly engulfed by it...Guiltily in love! (6 more taglines...)

Director: Joshua Logan,   Actors: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O'Connell, Verna Felton, Reta Shaw, Nick Adams, Raymond Bailey, Elizabeth Wilson, Rosalind Russell, Warren Frederick Adams, Carle E. Baker, George E. Bemis, Story: The morning of a small town Labor Day picnic, a drifter (Hal Carter) blows into town to visit an old fraternity buddy (Alan Benson) who also happens to be the son of the richest man in town. Hal is an egocentric braggart - all potential and no accomplishment. He meets up with Madge Owens, the town beauty queen and girlfriend of Alan Benson. >> Certificates: UK:A, UK:U, UK:U, Finland:K-12, Finland:K-12, Sweden:15, Sweden:15,

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	Guys and Dolls [1955, USA] Genres: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance,

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz,   Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Stubby Kaye, B.S. Pully, Johnny Silver, Sheldon Leonard, Danny Dayton, George E. Stone, Regis Toomey, Kathryn Givney, Veda Ann Borg, Mary Alan Hokanson, Story: All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. Throw in Sarah Brown, who's short on sinners at the mission she runs; Sky Masterson, who accepts Nathan's $1000... >> Certificates: Brazil:Livre, West Germany:12, West Germany:12, Australia:G, Australia:G, Finland:K-12, Finland:K-12, Sweden:15, Sweden:15, USA:Approved, USA:Approved, USA:Passed, USA:Passed, Australia:PG, Australia:PG,

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	East of Eden [1955, USA] Genres: Drama, The searing classic of paradise lost.

Director: Elia Kazan,   Actors: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, Richard Davalos, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Dekker, Lois Smith, Harold Gordon, Nick Dennis, Abdullah Abbas, José Arias, Joe Brooks, Timothy Carey, Jack Carr, Story: Cal Trask is a particularly unhappy young man. He sees himself as the black sheep of the family and is always competing with his brother Aron, who seems to be perfect in almost every way. Aron is also their father's favorite and Cal desperately wants his father's love and affection. It's the period leading up to America's entry into World War I ... >> Certificates: Peru:14, Portugal:M/12, Portugal:M/12, Germany:16, Germany:16, Iceland:L, Iceland:L, Spain:13, Spain:13, UK:AA, UK:AA, UK:PG, UK:PG, Sweden:15, Sweden:15, USA:Approved, USA:Approved, Argentina:13, Argentina:13, Australia:PG, Australia:PG, Chile:14, Chile:14, Finland:K-16, Finland:K-16, South Korea:15, South Korea:15, Sweden:11, Sweden:11, Switzerland:16, Switzerland:16, USA:PG, USA:PG,

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	Not as a Stranger [1955, USA] Genres: Drama,

Director: Stanley Kramer,   Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Charles Bickford, Myron McCormick, Lon Chaney Jr., Jesse White, Harry Morgan, Lee Marvin, Virginia Christine, Whit Bissell, Jack Raine, Mae Clarke, Story: Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum), an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina (Olivia de Havilland), not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She ... >> Certificates: Australia:PG, Finland:K-16,

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	Kid for Two Farthings, A [1955, UK] Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family,

Director: Carol Reed,   Actors: Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson, Jonathan Ashmore, Brenda De Banzie, Primo Carnera, Lou Jacobi, Irene Handl, Danny Green, Sydney Tafler, Sid James, Vera Day, Daphne Anderson, Joseph Tomelty, Story: In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a capt... >> Certificates: Finland:K-8, Sweden:15, UK:U, USA:Approved,

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	Kiss Me Deadly [1955, USA] Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller, "I don't care what you do to me, Mike - just do it fast!" (1 more taglines...)

Director: Robert Aldrich,   Actors: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Wesley Addy, Marian Carr, Maxine Cooper, Cloris Leachman, Gaby Rodgers, Nick Dennis, Jack Lambert, Jack Elam, Jerry Zinneman, Leigh Snowden, Percy Helton, Story: Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her. They are put back into Hammer's car which then is forced off a cliff... >> Certificates: West Germany:18, Australia:M, Canada:PG, Finland:(Banned), Finland:K-16, Germany:18, Spain:18, Sweden:15, USA:Unrated, UK:A, UK:12,

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	Court Jester, The [1955, USA] Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, The Musical Romantic Adventure Of This Or Any Year! (1 more taglines...)

Director: Melvin Frank,   Actors: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick, Robert Middleton, Michael Pate, Herbert Rudley, Noel Drayton, John Carradine, Edward Ashley, Alan Napier, Lewis Martin, Patrick Aherne, Story: The throne of rightful king of England, the small babe with the purple pimpernel birthmark, has been usurped by the evil King Roderick. Only the Black Fox can restore the true king to the throne—and all he needs is the king's key to a secret tunnel. And while he's trying to steal it, someone has to change the king's diapers. The task falls... >> Certificates: UK:U, USA:Approved, New Zealand:G, Australia:G, Finland:S, Sweden:Btl,

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	To Catch a Thief [1955, USA] Genres: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, WANTED by the police in all the luxury-spots of Europe!... A catch for any woman! (1 more taglines...)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock,   Actors: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams, Charles Vanel, Brigitte Auber, Jean Martinelli, Georgette Anys, George Adrian, John Alderson, René Blancard, Eugene Borden, Lewis Charles, Frank Chelland, William 'Wee Willie' Davis, Story: John Robie is a one-time cat burglar, now reformed and living a blameless life in a plush villa. When a fresh set of burglaries rocks the Riviera all bearing the hallmark of Robie's own robberies, he is the natural suspect. Robie sets out to catch the new burglar himself, mainly to prove his innocence. He is aided by an American heiress, who ini... >> Certificates: Spain:T, Netherlands:6, Ireland:PG, USA:Approved, Brazil:14, Argentina:13, Australia:G, Canada:G, Chile:14, Finland:K-8, Norway:12, Peru:14, Sweden:15, UK:PG, West Germany:12,

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