141. Baby Doll
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Mildred Dunnock, Lonny Chapman, Eades Hogue
142. House on Haunted Hill
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: William Castle
Actors: Vincent Price, Carolyn Craig, Richard Long, Elisha Cook Jr., Carol Ohmart, Alan Marshal
Plot: Fredrick Loren (Vincent Price) and his fourth wife invite five guests to
their house for a little 'party'. However can stay the night in the house
on Haunted Hill will earn $10,000. But as the night progresses, more
things happen. Death, ghosts and a dark pit await these innocent guests.
Win or die, those are the choices you have for this game.
143. Auntie Mame
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Morton DaCosta
Actors: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith, Patric Knowles
Plot: An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when
the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle.
144. Operation Petticoat
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Blake Edwards
Actors: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Gavin MacLeod, Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill, Dick Sargent
Plot: A confident captain wants a sub to command finds himself in charge of damaged sub, which is painted pink following a primer problem, and he also has to deal with a bevy of nurses, a con-man/executive officer.
145. The King and I
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Walter Lang
Actors: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson, Terry Saunders, Rex Thompson
Plot: A musical based on the story of a widow who takes a job as governess to the king of Siam's children.
146. Viva Zapata!
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman, Arnold Moss, Alan Reed
147. Cry, The ( grido, Il )
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair, Gabriella Pallotta, Dorian Gray, Lynn Shaw
Plot: Aldo has spent seven years with Irma - even raising a daughter - but Irma's husband has been absent - and when she learns of his death in Sydney - instead of the marriage Aldo expects, instead she informs him of her plans to leave. Aldo cannot express his love, and, feeling lost, takes his daughter on a road trip, hoping to find a love to replace the void in his life.
148. The Harder They Fall
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mark Robson
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane, Max Baer, Harold J. Stone
Plot: Eddie Willis, a sports journalist finds himself out of a job when his paper folds, but a fight promoter hires him to be the PR man for a fighter out of Argentina. The fighter has no talent, but Eddie knows how the game is played and sets up a series of rigged fights in order to make his man a contender for the heavyweight champion (and a hefty gate profit). Yet when a fighter dies in the ring, he begins to doubt his plan.
149. Ivanhoe
Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Thorpe
Actors: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Robert Douglas, Norman Wooland
Plot: Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades only to learn that his king - Richard the Lionheart - has been improsoned in Austria. With the wicket Prince John and his cronies enjoying the spoils of ruling the land - he finds no other option than to join with Robin Hood. At the same time he works to mend the relationship between him and his father.
150. The Wrong Man
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, John Heldabrand, Doreen Lang
Plot: Based upon the actual case of Emmanuel Balestrero, this unusually dark Hitchcock film chronicles the ordeal of NYC musician mistaken for an armed robber. As his case moves through the faltering criminal justice system and he he tries to prove his innocence, his wife has a nervous breakdown.
