21. Lust for Life
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn , James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane, Henry Daniell
Plot: Based on the life of Vincent Van Gogh - a brilliant artist and tortured genius who never found a connection with the people or women in his life, but still earns some respect while his brother, Theo, never gives up on him.
22. High Society
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Walters
Actors: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund, Louis Calhern
23. Somebody Up There Likes Me
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Sal Mineo, Harold J. Stone
24. French Cancan
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Renoir
Actors: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix, Anna Amendola, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Dora Doll
25. Burmese Harp, The ( Biruma no tategoto )
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Actors: Rentaro Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Jun Hamamura, Taketoshi Naitô, Shunji Kasuga, Kô Nishimura
26. Anastasia
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anatole Litvak
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, Sacha Pitoëff
27. Seven Men from Now
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Budd Boetticher
Actors: Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin, Walter Reed, John Larch, Don 'Red' Barry
Plot: Aging lawman Ben Stride burns a trail of murderous revenge across a hardscrabble landscape searching for his wife's murderers.
28. While the City Sleeps
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Vincent Price, John Drew Barrymore, Howard Duff
29. Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ishirô Honda, Terry O. Morse
Actors: Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Frank Iwanaga
Plot: Remake of the Japanese original in which a giant beast wrecks havoc on Japan after being awakened by nuclear bomb testing.
30. Quatermass Experiment, The ( Creeping Unknown, The )
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Val Guest
Actors: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Thora Hird, Gordon Jackson, David King-Wood
