All Films

No Right to Kill

1956 • 60 min

This is a special series of lost classic programs from the Golden Age of TV. The series has been restored by SabuCat Productions from the best archival film elements available in high definition, some of the programs have not been seen since they were originally broadcast. Volume One features 2 one-hour dramatic programs that feature John Cassavetes. Climax! ran for four years - This was an anthology series that presented a different story and different set of characters on each episode. It ran from 1954 to 1958 and featured Casino Royale of James Bond fame that lead to a feature film of the same titles. On August 9th, 1956 - they showed No Right to Kill directed by Buzz Kulik and starring John Cassavetes, Robert H. Harris, Joe Mantell and Terry Moore.

Pure Emotions of the Sea

1956 • 48 min • Japan

A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.

Case of a Young Lord 2

1956 • 56 min • Japan

After getting permission to dig up the pawnbroker's grave, Young lord samurai was surprised to find the body was missing, as was the Gosu plate. He had a suspect in mind, and was able to use him to learn of the pawnbroker's hideout and try to piece together the parts of the puzzle. A superb and exciting conclusion to a very clever mystery story set during the Golden Age of Japan. With no easy questions and his life hanging in the balance, can Young lord solve the mystery and regain the valuable plate?

The Eyes of the Jaguar

1956 • 41 min • Japan

A young princess is kidnapped and put on a pirate ship bound for Hokkaido and the villainous Jaguar. Her only hope is the cook and a young man who knows Judo.

Shinkon nikki: Ureshii asa

1956 • 44 min

Newlyweds Saburo and Chieko are renting a room. The two get into a fight over something trivial.

娘の修学旅行

1956 • 44 min • Japan

An uproarious human-interest comedy about the love between a father and daughter of a good-natured sandwich man, set against the backdrop of the glamorous Ginza district!

Kobushidake denki : hito hada jigoku

1956 • 51 min • Japan

Fortune Seekers

1956 • 8 min • United States of America

This short film celebrates the hard work, tenacity, and ingenuity of inventors. Highlighted are some seemingly small inventions that have become part of daily life.

The Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi

1956 • 50 min • Japan

Depicts the boyhood days of Dr. Noguchi, world famous bacteriologist, who was born in a poor village as a farmer's son.

Fool’s Mate

1956 • 28 min • France

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?

Calling Homicide

1956 • 60 min • United States of America

Cop Andy Doyle investigates a car-bombing murder and the killing of a sleazy modeling agency owner. Are they connected?

Seafaring Lord

1956 • 51 min • Japan

The story of "Fuun Kuroshiomaru

Fighter Wing

1956 • 30 min • Canada

Fred Davis introduces us to Canadian Air Force operations in Zweibrucken, West Germany. Follow Green Section as they perform drills and explain what it takes to be a fighter pilot.

The Case of the River Morgue

1956 • 30 min

Scotland Yard detectives investigate an insurance scam, where a "drowned" man proves to have been dead before he was thrown in the water.

The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis

1956 • 12 min

A film about the Rembrandt painting.

Nenneko Shain

1956 • 44 min • Japan

A handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the high-maintenance female manager suddenly panic, and the whole company is in an uproar.

All the World's Memory

1956 • 21 min • France

A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.

Will-o'-the-Wisp

1956 • 46 min • Japan

Travels of Lord Mito: The Phantom Cat

1956 • 59 min • Japan

In Numada, Jyoshu, Seijun's mistress dies a horrible death at the hands of a gang of vicious vassals plotting to embezzle the Kuroda family, and her beloved cat takes revenge by becoming an incarnation of the cat.

Newlywed Diary: An Embarrassing Dream

1956 • 42 min

Chieko gets married and moves from Kumamoto to Tokyo when her boyfriend Saburo, who works for the Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, is transferred to Tokyo. Her husband's mentor, a university professor, moved to the United States, and she ended up house-sitting at his residence. However, it's the only house in the neighborhood with a telephone, so Chieko is exhausted from making phone calls all day long.

Operation Teahouse

1956 • 5 min • United States of America

This short promotional film provides a behind-the-scenes look at "The Teahouse of the August Moon" (1956).

Our Mr. Sun

1956 • 57 min

One entry in a series of films produced to make science accessible to the masses—especially children—this film describes the sun in scientific but entertaining terms.

Masura o hashutsu fukai

1956 • 55 min • Japan

Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.

Samoa

1956 • 32 min • United States of America

One of Disney's "People and Places" series looking at the Polynesian kingdom of Samoa.