1957

Film Decades: 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• 3:10 to Yuma – directed by Delmer Daves, starring Glenn Ford & Van Heflin
• 8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements, directed by Jean Cocteau
• 10th of May (Der 10. Mai) – (Switzerland)
• 12 Angry Men – directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, E.G. Marshall
• 1918 – Finland
• 20 Million Miles to Earth, starring William Hopper, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen
• Aasha, starring Kishore Kumar, Vyjayanthimala and Asha Parekh – (India)
  The Abominable Snowman, starring Peter Cushing and Forrest Tucker – UK
• Across the Bridge, starring Rod Steiger – UK
• The Admirable Crichton, starring Kenneth More and Diane Cilento – UK
• An Affair to Remember – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr
• All Mine to Give, starring Glynis Johns and Cameron Mitchell
• And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) – (U.S.S.R.)
• April Love, starring Shirley Jones and Pat Boone
• The Auntie from Chicago (I theia ap’ to Chicago) – (Greece)
• Baby Face Nelson, starring Mickey Rooney
• The Bachelor Party, directed by Delbert Mann, written by Paddy Chayefsky, starring Don Murray
• Band of Angels
• Barnacle Bill – directed by Charles Frend, starring Alec Guinness – UK
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring Jennifer Jones & John Gielgud – UK
• Beau James – directed by Melville Shavelson, starring Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Alexis Smith
• La Bestia humana (The Human Beast) – (Argentina)
• The Big Land – directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Alan Ladd & Virginia Mayo
• Bitter Victory – directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Richard Burton – France/US
• The Black Scorpion, starring Mara Corday, with special effects by Willis O’Brien
• Blue Murder at St Trinian’s – starring Terry-Thomas and Joyce Grenfell – UK
• Bombers B-52 – directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Marsha Hunt
• Boy on a Dolphin – directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Alan Ladd, Clifton Webb, Sophia Loren
• The Bridge on the River Kwai – directed by David Lean, starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa – UK
• Brothers in Law, starring Richard Attenborough and Ian Carmichael – UK
• The Brothers Rico, starring Richard Conte
• The Burglar – directed by Paul Wendkos, starring Dan Duryea & Jayne Mansfield
• The Careless Years, starring Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, Barbara Billingsley
• City of Gold – (Canada)
• Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull) – (West Germany)
• Country Hotel (Rong Raem Narok) – (Thailand)
• The Cranes Are Flying – directed by Mikhail Kalatozov – USSR
• Crime of Passion – directed by Gerd Oswald, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr
• The Crucible (Les Sorcières de Salem), starring Simone Signoret and Yves Montand – (France/East Germany)
• The Curse of Frankenstein – starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee – UK
• The D.I. – directed by and starring Jack Webb
• Decision at Sundown – directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott
• The Delicate Delinquent – directed by Don McGuire, starring Jerry Lewis & Darren McGavin
• The Delinquents – directed by Robert Altman
• Designing Woman – directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gregory Peck & Lauren Bacall
• Desk Set – directed by Walter Lang, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young
• The Devil’s Hairpin, starring Cornel Wilde
• Dino – directed by Thomas Carr, starring Sal Mineo, Brian Keith, & Susan Kohner
• Do Aankhen Barah Haath (Two Eyes, Twelve Hands) – (India)
• Don Quixote – USSR
• Don’t Go Near the Water – directed by Charles Walters, starring Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis
• Drango, starring Jeff Chandler
• Duped Till Doomsday (Betrogen bis zum jüngsten Tag) – (East Germany)
• Early Morning Chill – directed by Yan Jizhou – China
• Edge of the City – directed by Martin Ritt, starring John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee
• The Enemy Below – directed by Dick Powell, and starring Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Theodore Bikel, David Hedison
• A Face in the Crowd – directed by Elia Kazan, written by Budd Schulberg, starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau
• Les Fanatiques (The Fanatics), starring Pierre Fresnay and Michel Auclair – (France)
• A Farewell to Arms – directed by Charles Vidor & John Huston (uncredited), starring Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica
• A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister – Japan
• Fathers and Sons – directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Vittorio De Sica – Italy
• Fear Strikes Out – directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Anthony Perkins & Karl Malden
• Fire Down Below – directed by Robert Parrish, starring Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon
• The Flute and the Arrow (En Djungelsaga), directed by Arne Sucksdorff – (Sweden)
• Forty Guns – directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Gene Barry
• Funny Face – directed by Stanley Donen, starring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson
• The Garment Jungle – directed by Vincent Sherman & Robert Aldrich (uncredited), starring Lee J. Cobb & Gia Scala
• The Gates of Paris (Porte des Lilas), directed by René Clair – (France/Italy)
• The Girl in Black Stockings – starring Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren
• The Girl in the Kremlin, starring Lex Barker and Zsa Zsa Gabor
• The Girl Most Likely, starring Jane Powell and Cliff Robertson
• Les Girls – directed by George Cukor, starring Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Mitzi Gaynor
• La grande strada azzurra (The Wide Blue Road) – (Italy)
• Gun for a Coward, starring Fred MacMurray
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral – directed by John Sturges, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
• The Halliday Brand, starring Joseph Cotten and Viveca Lindfors
• A Hatful of Rain – directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa
• He Who Must Die (Celui qui doit mourir), directed by Jules Dassin – (France)
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison – directed by John Huston, starring Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
• The Helen Morgan Story – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Paul Newman & Ann Blyth
• Hell Drivers, directed by Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan – UK
• Hour of Decision, starring Jeff Morrow and Hazel Court – UK
• The House of the Angel (La Casa del ángel) – (Argentina)
• I Am Waiting (Ore wa matteru ze) – (Japan)
• The Incredible Shrinking Man, directed by Jack Arnold, starring Grant Williams
• Interlude – directed by Douglas Sirk, starring June Allyson
• Island in the Sun – directed by Robert Rossen, starring James Mason, Harry Belafonte, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, Dorothy Dandridge, Michael Rennie, Stephen Boyd, Patricia Owens, John Justin, Diana Wynyard, John Williams, & Basil Sydney
• Istanbul – directed by Joseph Peveney, starring Errol Flynn
• Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley
• Jamboree, featuring Dick Clark, Frankie Avalon, Fats Domino
• Jeanne Eagels – directed by George Sidney, starring Kim Novak
• Jet Pilot – Josef von Sternberg, starring John Wayne & Janet Leigh
• Joe Butterfly – starring Audie Murphy and Burgess Meredith, Keenan Wynn
• Johnny Tremain – directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Hal Stalmaster & Sebastian Cabot
• The Joker Is Wild – directed by Charles Vidor, starring Frank Sinatra, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Mitzi Gaynor
• Kabuliwala (aka The Man) – (India)
• Kathputli (Puppet), directed by Amiya Chakravarty and Nitin Bose, starring Vyjayanthimala and Balraj Sahni – (India)
• A King in New York – directed by & starring Charlie Chaplin – UK
• Kiss Them for Me – directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Suzy Parker
• The Land Unknown, starring Jock Mahoney
• Legend of the Lost – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Kurt Kasznar
• Let’s Be Happy – directed by Henry Levin, starring Vera-Ellen & Tony Martin – UK
• The Little Hut – directed directed Mark Robson, starring Ava Gardner – UK/US
• Love in the Afternoon – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
• Loving You, starring Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey
• The Lower Depths – directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – Japan
• Man of a Thousand Faces – directed by Joseph Peveney, starring James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Roger Smith, Robert Evans
• A Matter of Dignity – directed by Michael Cacoyannis – Greece
• Mayabazar (Fantasy Bazaar), starring N.T. Rama Rao – India
• Mayerling – starring Audrey Hepburn – TV movie
• Men in War – directed by Anthony Mann, starring Robert Ryan & Aldo Ray
• Miracles of Thursday (Los jueves, milagro), directed by Luis García Berlanga, starring Richard Basehart – (Spain)
• Mister Cory, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Kathryn Grant
• The Monolith Monsters, starring Grant Williams and Lola Albright
• The Monster That Challenged the World, starring Tim Holt
• Mother India, starring Nargis – (India)
• My Gun Is Quick – starring Robert Bray
• The Mysterians – directed by Ishirō Honda – Japan
• N.Y., N.Y., a documentary film by Francis Thompson
• The Naked Truth, starring Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers – (GB)
• Naya Daur (New Era), directed by B.R. Chopra, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala – (India)
• Night of the Demon – directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews – UK
• Night Passage – starring James Stewart
• Nightfall – directed by Jacques Tourneur. starring Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft
• Nights of Cabiria – directed by Federico Fellini, starring Giulietta Masina – Italy
• Nine Lives (Ni Liv) – (Norway)
• No Down Payment – directed by Martin Ritt, starring Joanne Woodward, Sheree North, Tony Randall, Jeffrey Hunter, Cameron Mitchell, & Pat Hingle
• Oh, Men! Oh, Women! – directed by Nunnally Johnson, starring Ginger Rogers & David Niven
• The Oklahoman, starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Hale
• Old Yeller – starring Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran
• Omar Khayyam, starring Cornel Wilde, John Derek, Debra Paget, Yma Sumac
• The One That Got Away, starring Hardy Krüger – (GB)
• Operation Mad Ball – directed Richard Quine, starring Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
• An Osaka Story (Osaka Monogatari) – (Japan)
• The Outcry (Il Grido), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Steve Cochran and Alida Valli – (Italy)
• The Pajama Game, starring Doris Day
• Pal Joey – directed by George Sidney, starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak
• Paths of Glory – directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou
• Paying Guest, starring Dev Anand – (India)
• Perri, a Disney animated film
• Peyton Place – directed by Mark Robson, starring Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Diane Varsi
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin, starring Van Johnson and Claude Rains
• The Pride and the Passion – directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren
• The Prince and the Showgirl – starring Marilyn Monroe & Laurence Olivier (who also directed)
• Public Pigeon No. 1, starring Red Skelton
• Pyaasa (Thirsty), directed by and starring Guru Dutt – (India)
• Quatermass 2 – starring Brian Donlevy – UK
• Raintree County, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint
• The Real End of the Great War – Poland
• Rock All Night – directed by Roger Corman, starring Abby Dalton
• Rose Bernd – starring Maria Schell and Raf Vallone – West Germany
• Run of the Arrow, starring Rod Steiger
• The Sad Sack – directed by George Marshall, starring Jerry Lewis, Peter Lorre
• Saint Joan – directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jean Seberg – US/UK
• Sayonara – directed by Joshua Logan, starring Marlon Brando, Red Buttons, Miyoshi Umeki, Miiko Taka, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, & Ricardo Montalbán
• The Seventh Seal – directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow – Sweden
• The Shiralee – starring Peter Finch – UK
• Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend – starring Randolph Scott & Angie Dickinson
• Silk Stockings – directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Peter Lorre
• The Singing Ringing Tree – East Germany
• Slaughter on Tenth Avenue – directed by Arnold Laven, starring Richard Egan and Walter Matthau
• Sleepless – starring Faten Hamama, Yehia Chehine & Omar Sharif – Egypt
• The Smallest Show on Earth – directed by Basil Dearden, starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers – UK
• The Snow Queen – USSR
• Something of Value – directed by Richard Brooks, starring Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, & Sidney Poitier
• The Spirit of St. Louis – directed by Billy Wilder, starring James Stewart
• Spring Reunion, starring Betty Hutton and Dana Andrews
• Stopover Tokyo – starring Robert Wagner & Joan Collins
• The Story of Esther Costello – starring Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Heather Sears – UK
• The Story of Mankind – directed by Irwin Allen, starring Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre
• The Strange One – starring Ben Gazzara & George Peppard
• The Strange World of Planet X – starring Forrest Tucker – UK
• Sweet Smell of Success, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, written by Ernest Lehman, starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis
• The Tall T – directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott & Richard Boone
• The Deadly Mantis, starring Craig Stevens and William Hopper
• The Giant Claw, starring Jeff Morrow and Mara Corday
• Tammy and the Bachelor – directed by Joseph Peveny, starring Debbie Reynolds & Leslie Nielsen
• The Tattered Dress, starring Jeanne Crain, Jeff Chandler, Jack Carson
• Ten Thousand Bedrooms, starring Dean Martin
• The Three Faces of Eve – directed by Nunnally Johnson, starring Joanne Woodward & Lee J. Cobb
• Throne of Blood – directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – Japan
• Time Limit – directed by Karl Malden, starring Richard Widmark, Richard Basehart, June Lockhart
• The Tin Star – directed by Anthony Mann, starring Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer
• Tip on a Dead Jockey, starring Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Jack Lord
• Tizoc, starring Pedro Infante and María Félix – Mexico
• Top Secret Affair, starring Kirk Douglas and Susan Hayward
• The Tough – Egypt
• Tumsa Nahin Dekha – starring Shammi Kapoor – India
• The Undead
• The Unholy Wife, starring Diana Dors and Rod Steiger
• Untamed Youth, starring Mamie Van Doren
• Until They Sail – directed by Robert Wise, starring Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, & Sandra Dee
• Valerie, directed by Gerd Oswald, starring Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel
• The Vampire) – Mexico
• Voodoo Island, starring Boris Karloff and Jean Engstrom
• The Way to the Gold, starring Jeffrey Hunter and Sheree North
• The Wayward Bus – directed by Victor Vicas, starring Joan Collins, Jayne Mansfield, Dan Dailey
• White Nights – directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Maria Schell and Marcello Mastroianni – Italy
• Whom God Forgives – Spain
• Wild Is the Wind, starring Anna Magnani and Anthony Quinn
• Wild Strawberries – directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson & Victor Sjöström – Sweden
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? – directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Jayne Mansfield & Tony Randall
• The Wings of Eagles – directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne & Maureen O’Hara
• Witness for the Prosecution – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
• Woman in a Dressing Gown, directed by J. Lee Thompson – UK
• Yagyu Secret Scrolls – starring Toshiro Mifune – Japan
• Yellow Crow – Japan
• Young and Dangerous, starring Mark Damon
• The Young Don’t Cry – directed by Alfred L. Werker, starring Sal Mineo, James Whitmore, & J. Carrol Naish
• Zero Hour!, starring Dana Andrews, Sterling Hayden, Linda Darnell, Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch, dramatic basis for later spoof Airplane!