31. Samurai 1: Miyamoto Musashi
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Adventure/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Kuroemon Onoe, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Akihiko Hirata
Plot: a young man in a small fuedal japanese village wishes to leave the farming life, and become a samurai warrior. During various attacks by local ronin, he learns what he must do, to become the man he is destined to be, and to obtain the skill that he will soon perfect.
32. It's Always Fair Weather
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Actors: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, Michael Kidd, David Burns
Plot: Three soldiers plan a reunion 10 years in the future but when the
appointed time comes, the trio realizes their old friendship just doesn't
mean what it used to. Yet they are still approached to meet again on live
TV - but things are complicated by one of the men running afoul of
gangsters.
33. I Live in Fear ( Ikimono no kiroku )
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Eiko Miyoshi, Kyôko Aoyama, Haruko Togo
Plot: A Japanese industrialist is so obsessed by fear of a nuclear attack that he plots to give up everything he has built and relocate his family to Brazil. A study of postwar upheaval in Japan - cultural, generational, ideological.
34. Strangers aka Journey to Italy ( Viaggio in Italia )
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban, Anna Proclemer, Paul Muller, Anthony La Penna
35. Ulysses ( Ulisse )
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mario Camerini
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano, Anthony Quinn, Rossana Podestà, Jacques Dumesnil, Franco Interlenghi
36. Killer's Kiss
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Jerry Jarrett, Mike Dana, Felice Orlandi
Plot: A young man sits at a train station waiting for his Girlfriend in which a flashback of his life occurs.
37. Lola Montès
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Max Ophüls
Actors: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Will Quadflieg, Henri Guisol, Ivan Desny
38. Napoléon
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sacha Guitry
Actors: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jeanne Boitel, Pierre Brasseur, Gianna Maria Canale, Pauline Carton, Jacques Dumesnil
39. The Purple Plain
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Parrish
Actors: Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Anthony Bushell, Brenda De Banzie, Maurice Denham, Bernard Lee
40. The Man with the Golden Arm
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Otto Preminger
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang, Darren McGavin, Robert Strauss
Plot: A professional card dealer returns to Chicago after rehab for heroin addiction.
