All Films

Flight from Vienna

1956 • 58 min • United Kingdom

A Hungarian Secret Service official attempts to defect the country and earn political asylum in the West.

The House Without a Name

1956 • 20 min • United States of America

The House Without a Name is a 1956 short documentary film written and produced by Valentine Davies for the Motion Picture Relief Fund. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Pasaporte al infierno

1956 • 50 min • Spain, United Kingdom

A forger (Carpenter) flees to Spain but his daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang.

Affair in Sumatra

1956 • 26 min

On a rubber plantation in Sumatra, a woman of mixed Dutch and Indonesian parentage must choose between her people and the doctor she loves.

The Candlemaker

1956 • 13 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

A candlemaker entrusts his young son with the task of making candles for their church on Christmas Eve.

Is It a Woman's World?

1956 • 30 min • Canada

This film, made especially for television in 1956, embodies the conventional myth that women indirectly exercise power through their ability to manipulate men through sex and marriage.

Eyes of the Jaguar: Blue Dragon's Cave

1956 • 42 min • Japan

Judo and Shaolin team up to defeat the magician Jaguar and restore a Princess to her rightful riches, gold stashed under a mountain in Hokkaido.

Three

1956 • 7 min

In the rarely-seen THREE, one begat three became two and then one again.

Showdown at Ulcer Gulch

1956 • 23 min • United States of America

Short promotional film for a Saturday Evening Post sales convention.

The Kreutzer Sonata

1956 • 44 min • France

Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of physical love. When a violinist with whom his wife plays regularly the “Sonata to Kreutzer” appears, the young woman blooms in a new passion. From then on, her husband is eaten away by jealousy.

White Peril

1956 • 8 min • United States of America

This RKO Pathé Screenliner show members of the 'snow patrol' at work in the Cascade Mountains of Washington state. At designated places, they measure snowfall and take core samples of the snow and measure its weight and density. They also measure river currents in relation to the snowfall. The data is used by the U.S. Geological Survey to help determine how the water runoff in the spring will translate into supplies of fresh water.

Zone Moment

1956 • 3 min

Shots of city and country life come together to form an impressionistic whole. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Eames Lounge Chair

1956 • 2 min • United States of America

Stop-motion animation depicts a man assembling an Eames lounge chair, sitting down to relax in it, and then disassembling it for shipment.

The One Romantic Venture of Edward

1956 • 14 min

The young man, played by Stan Brakhage, gets himself into a seriously comic mix-up by indulging in semi-sexual fantasies, and allowing the fantasies to take over. This is the best of my very early films and includes my first footage.

Walt Disney's Where Do the Stories Come From?

1956 • 51 min

Walt answers the often-asked question of just where the stories for his studio's cartoons come from, which is from practically anywhere.

The Door in the Wall

1956 • 29 min • United Kingdom

A man is haunted throughout his life, by a magical door that opens onto an alternate, Garden-of-Eden like world.

Mysterious Fires

1956 • 6 min

A knight mistakes Gumby for a magician and asks for his help in fighting a set of mysterious fires around the kingdom.

Dracula

1956 • 60 min • United States of America

The vampire count leaves his Transylvanian home to wreak havoc across the world.

Zoku fūun kuroshio maru madara ōkami

1956 • 55 min • Japan

The story of "Fuun Kuroshiomaru:- Young Warrior of the South Seas

The Violent Years

1956 • 57 min • United States of America

A newspaper publisher's daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas stations, raping young men at gunpoint, and having makeout parties when her parents are away. Their "fence" gets them to trash the school on request of sinister un-American clients, and they run afoul of the law, apple pie, and God himself.

Claire

1956 • 25 min • United States of America

A doctor's second wife is tormented by the presence of his pet cat, which reminds her of the fact that she was involved in her husband's first wife's drowning.

The Twelve Months

1956 • 55 min • Soviet Union

A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.

Il pensionato

1956 • 10 min • Italy

Story of a retired old man who is learning what to do with himself.

Kobushi dakedenki kettō jigoku

1956 • 53 min • Japan

In search of the key to Takeda Shingen's hidden treasure, journey from the shadowy depths of Edo to the mystery-shrouded Kōbushin-dake! Final episode of the epic historical drama trilogy.