41. Around the World in 80 Days
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Anderson
Actors: David Niven, Robert Morley, Charles Boyer, Cantinflas, John Gielgud, Noel Coward
Plot: With new inventions in the early days a man promises he can make it around the world in 80 days, a feat that had never been done. Based on Jules Verne novel of the same name.
42. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Actors: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March, Lee J. Cobb, Marisa Pavan, Ann Harding
43. Patterns
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fielder Cook
Actors: Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Beatrice Straight, Elizabeth Wilson, Joanna Roos
44. That is the Dawn ( Cela s'appelle l'aurore )
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosé, Julien Bertheau, Jean-Jacques Delbo, Simone Paris, Robert Le Fort
45. Written on the Wind
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Douglas Sirk
Actors: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Edward Platt, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith
Plot: A film that involves Mitch Wayne (Rock Hudson), a geologist, Lucy Moore (Lauren Bacall) and alcoholic Kyle (Robert Stack). A death occurs that would change their lives.
46. Silent World ( monde du silence, Le )
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle
Actors: Frédéric Dumas, Albert Falco, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, François Saout, André Bourne-Chastel, Marcel Colomb
47. Richard III
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Laurence Olivier
Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Mary Kerridge, Ralph Richardson
Plot: Shakespeare's epic comes to life - while Richard III has helped his brother Edward ascend to the throne of England, his resentment leads him to seek the throne for himself. His plan is a twisted, lengthy plot of deception, manipulation and murder - but his prowess on the battlefield, and the fairer sex, could lead to success but at what cost to England?
48. The Rainmaker
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph Anthony
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl Holliman, Cameron Prud'Homme
49. The Man Who Never Was
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ronald Neame
Actors: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Stephen Boyd, Josephine Griffin, Laurence Naismith
50. The Girl Can't Help It
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Tashlin
Actors: Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London, Ray Anthony, Barry Gordon
Plot: A talent agent finds himself forced to make a star of a gangster's moll -- despite the fact that she has no talent to speak of.
