21. Daddy Long Legs
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Negulesco
Actors: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark, Charlotte Austin
Plot: While visiting France, millionaire Jervis Pendelton becomes enchanted by an 18-year-old orphan. Fully aware of the age difference, he instead provides money for her to attend college in New England. For three years she writes him letter - and for three years he ignores them. When he finally decides to visit and watch her dance, he finally realizes his love cannot be contained. But coming together is not as straight-forward as he imagined.
22. Kiss Me Deadly
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Cloris Leachman, Jack Elam
Plot: L.A. private eye Mike Hammer picks up a female hitchhiker only to become involved in a twisted plot after she is killed for information. It could mean a big payday, if he can figure out the mystery and survive to use it.
23. Smiles of a Summer Night ( Sommarnattens leende )
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Margit Carlqvist, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jarl Kulle
Plot: In turn-of-the century Sweden, the lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his virginal, young wife Anne attend the theater where an old flame, the amoral actress Desiree, catches his eye. Wanting to see how things play out, she invites the couple, along with her lover, jealous Count Malcolm and his wife Charlotte, along with the lawyer's son Henrik who finds himself drawn to Anne.
24. All That Heaven Allows
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Douglas Sirk
Actors: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Gloria Talbott, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey
Plot: An upper-class widow finds herself falling for a man considered beneath her station - much the chagrin of her children and the country club set she mingles with.
25. Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl aka Summer with Monika ( Sommaren med Monika )
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke Fridell, Naemi Briese, Åke Grönberg
Plot: Wild, rebellions 17-year-oldl Monika shares an instant connection with 19-year-old Harry and their passion explodes during the summer heat on an isolated island. But life goes on - Monika becomes pregnant, they decide to marry and while Harry pursues a stable working-class life, Monika does not want to give up her fun.
26. Bob le flambeur
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors: Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy, Roger Duchesne, André Garet, Gérard Buhr, Guy Decomble
27. The Seven Year Itch
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts, Robert Strauss, Oskar Homolka
28. Summertime
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Lean
Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari Aldon, Jane Rose
Plot: An American tourist arrives in Venice. She contends with everything from the stereotypical uncultured Americans to the amorous advances of an Italian.
29. Oklahoma!
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Rod Steiger, Charlotte Greenwood, Shirley Jones
30. The Trouble with Harry
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Royal Dano, Jerry Mathers, Mildred Natwick
Plot: Hitchcock dispenses with much of the suspense in favor of macabre humor. In a beautiful Vermont village in autumn, Harry's dead body appears. Various townspeople, believing they have killed Harry, bury him, only to discover that they were not the culprit, requiring them to unearth Harry--again and again and again.
