Movies 1957 Page 48

The first of a series of 12 compilation features (number 1-12)made for theatres to use as a Saturday Matinee offering aimed strictly at children....

To supplement their pension, the eccentric couple August and Ida Bodendiek rent a room to young Klaus. His father wants to remarry, so Klaus moved...

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

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

At a high mountain hotel in Norway, porter Poppe tries to do the best he can for the guests with an often unhelpful piccolo Rudolf. This, however,...

The Black Widows, a teenage girl gang, find one of their number killed. They blame her murder on Barbara, the on-again-off-again girlfriend of the...

1957 Japanese movie.

Raffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He immediately goes to Pollena to be beside her.

The tale about a magic fish and resentful lover whose fiancee went to a lazy fool.

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

Mr. Maggo tries to hunt a moose

On the evening of the wedding painter Maurice torments his jealousy. The call of the mysterious Monsieur Lambertier, splendid orchids in the...

The old and sick detective superintendent Bärlach has to investigate the murder of his colleague Ulrich Schmied, who was murdered in the middle of...

A poetic ode to the River Seine, Ivens' distinguished camera eye surveys its lively banks and step-stone canals with a vérité candor, a beguiling...

Short film.

A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.

Centered on a pencil-loss incident at an elementary school, this story gently and quietly portrays the beauty of children’s innocent hearts.

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

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...

The first in a series of films for the Rural Cinema Scheme in the Orkneys, it records the return to the island of Wyre of Neil Flaws, a farmer, and...

Two young children spend a summer weekend at the lake with their parents, aunt and uncle.

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.

Jane Conger Belson Shimane's first film, Logos, premiered in 1957 and was screened at festivals in North America, Europe, and Latin America. The...

1957 Jim Davis short

A young couple, urged to wait before getting married, visit their minister for advice. Two case histories, where marriage was not postponed until...

This cute little short was made for the Australian Broadcasting commission, with animation by the small Rowl Greenhalgh productions.

Discusses how the emotional and physical development of children from ten to twelve years manifests itself in their behavior, their attitudes toward...

A fantasy of kitchen planning and modernization.

A visual poem of neutrons exploding and merging, with complex animation and colour effects made possible by the use of a computer. Based on complex...

An expedition heads to the barren lands of northern Canada to study musk-ox calves.

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Film promoting advertising in Redbook as the best way to reach young suburban consumers, a growing demographic of the late 1950s. It makes the point...