| We're No Angels (1955) |
| Three Devil's Island escapees hide out in the house of a kindly merchant and repay his kindness by helping him and his family out of several crises. |
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1955
09/08/1955
Not Rated
Film
106 minutes
A
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Comedy
Crime
Romance
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Director(s):
Michael Curtiz
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Merry Christmas 1895 Devil's Island |
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I'll cut his throat for Christmas |
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that's the kind of thing that could make you stop believing in Santa Claus |
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Yoo hoo, Merry Christmas |
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Merry Christmas |
| Cast:
Humphrey Bogart
/ Joseph
Aldo Ray
/ Albert
Peter Ustinov
/ Jules
Joan Bennett
/ Amelie Ducotel
Basil Rathbone
/ Andre Trochard
Leo G. Carroll
/ Felix Ducotel
John Baer
/ Paul Trochard
Gloria Talbott
/ Isabelle Ducotel
Lea Penman
/ Mme. Parole
John Smith
/ Medical Officer Arnaud
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| The Seven Little Foys (1955) |
| After the young wife of vaudevillian Eddie Foy passes away, he incorporates their seven children into the act and takes it on the road. |
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1955
05/31/1955
Approved
Film
93 minutes
C
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Biography
Comedy
Drama
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Director(s):
Melville Shavelson
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| 01:11:29 |
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Christmas |
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Happiest time is Christmas |
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children should be home for Christmas |
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holiday for the children |
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we'll do the whole Santa Claus bit |
| Cast:
Bob Hope
/ Eddie Foy
Milly Vitale
/ Madeleine Morando Foy
George Tobias
/ Barney Green
Angela Clarke
/ Clara Morando
Herbert Heyes
/ Judge
Richard Shannon
/ Stage Manager
Billy Gray
/ Bryan Lincoln Foy, as a Teen
Lee Erickson
/ Charley Foy
Paul De Rolf
/ Richard Foy
Lydia Reed
/ Mary Foy
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| Die Ratten (1955) |
| In the early Fifties Pauline Karka (Maria Schell) comes to Berlin. She is pregnant and totally penniless. She meets the laundry owner Anna John (Heidemarie Hatheyer) who always yearned to become a mother but hasn't been able to. Paulines child is born and the two women agree that Anna John will keep the newborn as her own baby. As Pauline is going to move to West Germany, she wants to see her child once again for the last time but Anna John refuses. Pauline panics and kidnaps by mistake the terminally ill kid of the neighbor woman. Meanwhile Anna John instructs her brother Bruno (Curd Jürgens) to get rid of Pauline but Bruno stumbles and kills himself with his own knife before he could find Pauline. |
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1955
07/06/1955
Approved
Film
91 minutes
C
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Drama
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Director(s):
Robert Siodmak
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Maria Schell
/ Pauline Karka
Curd Jürgens
/ Bruno Mechelke
Heidemarie Hatheyer
/ Anna John
Gustav Knuth
/ Karl John
Ilse Steppat
/ Frau Knobbe
Fritz Rémond Jr.
/ Harro Hassenreuter
Lou Seitz
/ Hebamme Kielbacke
Barbara Rost
/ Selma Knobbe
Karl Hellmer
/ Postbeamter
Hans Stiebner
/ Maskenverleihinstitutsbesitzer
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| The Night of the Hunter (1955) |
| A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. |
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1955
07/27/1955
Not Rated
Film
92 minutes
C
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Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
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Director(s):
Charles Laughton
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Merry Christmas, Mrs. Cooper, and what is Santa bringing |
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Merry Christmas, Mrs. Cooper, and what is Santa bringing |
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Christmas Tree in town, with mob |
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Jingle Bells |
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Merry Christmas sign |
| Cast:
Robert Mitchum
/ Harry Powell
Shelley Winters
/ Willa Harper
Lillian Gish
/ Rachel Cooper
James Gleason
/ Uncle Birdie Steptoe
Evelyn Varden
/ Icey Spoon
Peter Graves
/ Ben Harper
Don Beddoe
/ Walt Spoon
Billy Chapin
/ John Harper
Sally Jane Bruce
/ Pearl Harper
Gloria Castillo
/ Ruby
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| Heidi and Peter (1955) |
| Heidi lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps in the summer, and she and Peter play and tend the goats. In the winter, she stays with Peter's mother, and she and Peter attend school. One day a letter arrives from Heidi's friend Klara Sesemann, an ill youngster who spends most of her time in wheelchair, stating that she is coming to visit. The teacher has been having trouble getting Peter to study, and Heidi's grandfather decides to pose as Santa Claus and scare him into it. This is successful, and Heidi helps Peter learn to read. they attend school. The arrival of summer also brings Klara, with her grandmother and her prim governess Rottenmeyer. Heidi's grandfather suggests that Frau Sesemann stay with him and Heidi, while Rottermeyer stays in the village to visit and keep an eye on Klara. Peter is resentful and destroys Klara's wheelchair. Heidi's grandfather is secretly pleased, as he feels that Klara doesn't really need it. Calamity strikes when a storm causes the brook to over |
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1955
12/12/1955
G
Film
89 minutes
C
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Genre:
Drama
Family
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Director(s):
Franz Schnyder
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Heinrich Gretler
/ Alp-Öhi
Elsbeth Sigmund
/ Heidi
Thomas Klameth
/ Geissenpeter
Emil Hegetschweiler
/ Lehrer / Teacher
Willy Birgel
/ Herr Sesemann / Mr. Sesemann
Traute Carlsen
/ Klaras Grossmutter / Klara's grandmother
Anita Mey
/ Frl. Rottenmeyer
Theo Lingen
/ Sebastian
Isa Günther
/ Klara Sesemann
Carl Wery
/ Dr. Classen
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