‘Into the Forest’: Folktales at DEFA (1955-1977)
These visually arresting and luridly colourful pictures drew on the works of authors such as Wilhelm Hauff, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm.
3:10 TO YUMA (1957)
A small-time rancher is hired to put notorious captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma, but Wade's gang tries to free him.
Essential Polish Animation (1957-1987)
27 films spanning the breakthrough of Poland's animated works from the late-1950s to the close of the classic era in the 1980s..
I VAMPIRI (1957)
Young women are found dead in Paris, drained of blood, so a journalist investigates and is seduced by a beautiful woman from a noble family.
PATHS OF GLORY (1957)
A French officer during the First World War must defend three men unfairly accused of cowardice at a court-martial.
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
Most of the jurors in a murder trial want to convict the defendant and go home... but a single hold-out tries to change their minds.
WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957)
After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
Cold War Creatures (1955-57)
A review of Arrow Video's box-set 'Cold War Creatures' (Creature With the Atom Brain, The Werewolf, Zombies of Mora Tau, and The Giant Claw).
THE INVISIBLE MAN APPEARS (1949) • THE INVISIBLE MAN vs. THE HUMAN FLY (1957)
Two unique Japanese riffs on H.G Wells’ classic character, also indebted to Universal’s iconic film series...
PICKUP ALLEY (1957)
International narcotics smuggler Frank McNally is trailed through various European countries by U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis.
MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES (1957)
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957)
A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.