Best of 1955


  1. Lola Montes                                                                               Max Ophuls
  2. Smiles of a Summer Night                                                        Ingmar Bergman 
  3. Kiss Me Deadly                                                                          Robert Aldrich
  4. Princess Yang Kwei-Fei                                                            Kenji Mizoguchi
  5. Othello                                                                                        Orson Welles
  6. French Can Can                                                                        Jean Renoir
  7. Ordet                                                                                          Carl Theodor Dreyer 
  8. Pather Panchali                                                                         Satyajit Ray
  9. To Catch A Thief                                                                       Alfred Hitchcock
  10. The Long Grey Line                                                                 John Ford
         Honorable Mention

         Moonfleet -- Lang,
         The Night of the Hunter -- Laughton, Rebel Without A Cause -- Ray,
         The Big Knife --Aldrich, Le Amiche -- Antonioni,
         East of Eden -- Kazan, The Big Combo -- Joseph H. Lewis

         Films I Enjoyed

         The Man From Laramie, The Trouble with Harry,
         House of Bamboo, The Indian Fighter, 
         The Naked Dawn, 
         Land of the Pharaohs, The Cobweb,
         The Phenix City Story, Violent Saturday,
         The Purple Plain, Sawdust and Tinsel,
         Dementia, 
         Diabolique, Captain Lightfoot,
         Lady and the Tramp, Summertime,
         Rififi, The Man with the Golden Arm

         Below the Mendoza Line

         Mister Roberts, Pete Kelly's Blues,
         5 Against the House, Pearl of the South Pacific, 
         Kismet, The Blackboard Jungle,
         Wichita, My Sister Eileen, 
         The Rose Tattoo, The Seven Little Foys,
         The Seven Year Itch, Strategic Air Command,
         Oklahoma!, The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing,
         Daddy Long Legs, Love is a Many Splendored Thing,
         Bad Day at Black Rock, I'll Cry Tomorrow,
         The Desperate Hours, The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell,
         The End of the Affair, Marty,
         The Private War of Major Benson, We're No Angels

                                            
    

          

                                                                   

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