Movies 1957 Page 47

Theatre play adaptation of Jean Racine's Phaedra filmed for TV.

A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some problems within his...

A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who...

A beautiful young woman from the neighborhood falls in love with two rude men, one good and the other bad.

After a Parisian haute couture house is robbed and jewels stolen, Commissaire Legrand leads the investigation. His suspicions fall on Linda, the...

A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local...

A woman (Lisa Gastoni) witnesses the theft of soiled banknotes from a mail delivery truck, then is threatened by the perpetrators of the crime.

In 1930, on the island of Noronha in Brazil, the inmates of the penitentiary revolt. Frédéric Coulibaud, head of the aeropostale radio station, and...

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort...

The "corn king" usually sponsors dreamy girls who want to become a miss in any contest. One of them doesn't agree with her sponsor's "donjuanesque"...

Dr. Hanna Burkhardt is a teacher by vocation: she is not only interested in teaching the pupils the subject matter, she also wants to be a human...

This first co-production of the Soviet and Indian cinematographers is dedicated to the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin who in 1466-1472 blazed the...

Walt Disney's unfinished adaptation of L Frank Baum's Oz series, previewed on the Fourth Anniversary Show of The Magical World of Disney.

Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison.

A middle-aged professor, disillusioned with his life and struggling through a midlife crisis, becomes infatuated with a much younger woman named Emma.

Sellers as the same salesman character he was in Dearth Of A Salesman is unable to sleep for 62 hours as he frets over one weekend about a meeting...

In this Cinemascope Terrytoon, Spoofy is a zany little fox that comes to life on the animator's drawing board and subdues a western gunslinger with...

The stubborn old skipper Heinrich Borchert refuses to recognize the progress of the new era. Sailing for the DSU is out of the question for him. He...

A presentation on the causes and effects of stroke points out that the brain is susceptible to damage from diseases of the arteries, particularly,...

Joe and Roxy, at 15 and 16 respectively, face more than the average teenage problems. Roxy, a child of divorced parents, tries to keep her illusions...

Uses everyday activities of children in order to explain traffic rules and their individual application. Shows how traffic rules arc put into...

Aquilino, better known as "Lepe", is a circus clown who returns to Caracas after several years of absence with his assistant Lepino to discover the...

The sea, with its storms, which break and break the waves against the sharp rocks, is the fulcrum of the life of the people of Gallura in Sardinia,...

A study of games played by London schoolchildren in the streets and playgrounds. The games range from the traditional to the contemporary.

A shorter version of Joseph Cornell's Nymphlight, an experimental film shot in New York City's Bryant Park, featuring scenes of birds, fountains,...

In this documentary short, Canadian mime Guy Hoffman, acting as Pierrot, introduces us to the art of pantomime. The streets of Montreal and the...

"Nightmare" was a hosted horror movie special with Tom Alderman as "The Nightcrawler" presenting the 1931 movie "Dracula" for WSUN-TV Channel 38, St....

A paean to canned food.

Made in 1957, this zany movie is like a lighthearted recap of Un Chien Andalou. Adam is a vegetarian, and sits there sucking grapes or watching...

An 80-sec excerpt of the edge-to-edge scan of Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s 1957 film "Golf"s 16mm celluloid print with punched holes across the frame...

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

A husband who is unable to relax after work is advised by his wife on how to calm down. Promotional film for Pfizer tranquilizer Atarax.

These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy...

An educational video showing the features of a full service gas station.

Sniffer the dog tries to get a bone.

Shows the relationship of the Constitution to organized labor. Presents the case of Whitaker et al. v. North Carolina, in which a group of unions...