1956 Poll
off the top of my head:
1. Bob le Flambeur
The Girl Can’t Help It
A Man Escaped
The Killing
Written On The Wind
There’s Always Tomorrow
Bigger Than Life
The Green Man
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Hitchcock)
Aparajito (Ray)
Baby Doll (Kazan)
Bob le flambeur (Melville)
The Burmese Harp (Ichakawa)
Forbidden Planet (Wilcox)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel)
Lust for Life (Minnelli)
1956
Bus Stop
Giant
The Harder They Fall
Rodan
Who Done It?
And God Created Woman
1) The Searchers
The Ten Commandments
Street of Shame
Bob Le Flambeur
The Killing
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Forbidden Planet
The Wrong Man
A Man Escaped
Aparajito
Bigger Than Life
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Nuit et brouillard
The Searchers
Bigger Than Life
Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Le ballon rouge
Bob le flambeur
Baby Doll
On the Bowery
Early Spring
Written on the Wind
Crazed Fruit]
The Searchers
A Man Escaped
The Wrong Man
Bigger Than Life
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Seven Men From Now
The Killing
The Girl Can’t Help It
Early Spring
Aparajito
Street of Shame
The Burmese Harp
Bob le Flambeur
Hot Blood
Crazed Fruit
Bhowani Junction
While the City Sleeps
Written on the Wind
A Kiss Before Dying
The Red Ballon
1. Written on the Wind
Baby Doll
The Bad Seed
Bob le Flambeur
Forbidden Planet
Giant
The Girl Can’t Help It
Hollywood or Bust
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Invitation to the Dance
The Killing
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Mystery of Picasso
Punishment Room
Rodan
Slightly Scarlet
The Solid Gold Cadillac
There’s Always Tomorrow
The Trapp Family
The Wrong Man
Forbidden Planet – Fred M. Wilcox
Baby Doll – Elia Kazan
The Burmese Harp – Kon Ichikawa
The Catered Affair – Richard Brooks
Forever, Darling – Alexander Hall
Invasion of the Body Snatchers – Don Siegel
The Killing – Stanley Kubrick
A Man Escaped – Robert Bresson
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit – Nunnally Johnson
Merry-Go-Round – Zoltán Fábri
The Rainmaker – Joseph Anthony
The Red Balloon – Albert Lamorisse
Rock Around the Clock – Fred F. Sears
Tea and Sympathy – Vincente Minnelli
The Wrong Man – Alfred Hitchcock
Still need to see:
Aparajito – Satyajit Ray
Early Spring – Yasujiro Ozu
For the American entries, mainly films I saw as a kid that still stick with me – mainly for sentimental reasons (sorry cinephiles). Forbidden Planet was my favorite film as a kid. I loved sci-fi films and thought this the very best. One can’t forsake one’s first love – not in this poll!
Robbie the Robot rules!
Nuit et brouillard is listed as 1955 in IMDb (and other sources). I realize this release thing is always hard to pin down. Were it 1956, it would be on my list. In case anyone is noting, The Searchers is purposely not on my list. I knew many would put it on theirs – and I’ve never really liked the film, inspite of its iconic status among cinephiles. Go figure taste, eh?
Merry-Go-Round (Z. Fabri)
Aparajito (S. Ray)
The Killing (S. Kubrick)
Sunday in Peking (C. Marker)
The Swan (C. Vidor)
1°) The man who knew too much – Hitchcock
- Le ballon rouge – Lamorisse
- The wrong man – Hitchcock
- The killing – Kubrick
- Bigger than life – Ray
- Giant – Stevens
- Written on the wind – Sirk
Another excellent year.
Bigger Than Life
The Searchers
Bob Le Flambeur
Aparajito
O Drakos
Early Spring
The Burmese Harp
The Girl Can’t Help It
Written on the Wind
Crime in the Streets
Bus Stop
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Wrong Man
The Solid Gold Cadillac
The Revolt of Mamie Stover
A Man Escaped
A Kiss Before Dying
The Killing
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Killer is Loose
no love for Bus Stop?
Monroe, Don Murray, Joshua Logan
invasion of the body snatchers
bigger than life
seven men from now
a man escaped
the killing
aparajito
forbidden planet
bob le flambeur
street of shame
the man who knew too much
i’d like to contribute to this poll but i keep getting distracted by eli wallach.
gosh. it’s hot in here.
1. Seven Men from Now (Budd Boetticher)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
Backlash (John Sturges)
Death in the Garden (Luis Bunuel)
Bob Le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Moby Dick (John Huston)
While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang)
Akasen Chitai/Streets of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
X: The Unknown (Leslie Norman)
The Killer is Loose (Budd Boetticher)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang)
The Bespoke Overcoat (Jack Clayton)
Attack (Robert Aldrich)
Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (Fred F. Sears)
Giant (George Stevens)
“no love for Bus Stop?
Monroe, Don Murray, Joshua Logan"
I listed it. Lovely film. Although of that genre in 1956, I prefer The Girl Can’t Help It. Why don’t you have it, Den?
The Searchers, Aparajito, Written on the Wind, Bob Le Flambeur, Early Spring and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
1. A Man Escaped
2. The Searchers
3. Forbidden Planet
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
5. Aparajito
6. Seven Men from Now
7. The Killing
8. There’s Always Tomorrow
1. Bigger than Life
A Man Escaped
The Killing
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Written on the Wind
Bob le Flambeur
The Burmese Harp
The Girl Can’t Help It
The Searchers
The Searchers (Ford)
Bob le flambeur (Melville)
Street of Shame (Mizoguchi)
The Mystery of Picasso (Clouzot)
The Killing (Kubrick)
While the City Sleeps (Lang)
Early Spring (Ozu)
Giant (Stevens)
Have yet to see Written on the Wind, A Man Escaped, Bigger Than Life or Seven Men From Now, but I plan on it…
ah silly me. movieguide, plz add the ogre of athens to my list. thank u xD
Another fine year. I’d like to pick something from out of left field for number one, but for me the greatest is still….
1-The Searchers
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Seven Men from Now
Bigger Than Life
Bhowani Junction
Full of Life
Slightly Scarlet
Street of Shame
The Killing
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Wrong Man
Attack
The Girl Can’t Help It
While the City Sleeps
A Kiss Before Dying
The Solid Gold Cadillac
There’s Always Tomorrow
Early Spring
Nightmare
Death of a Scoundrel
I know we’re talking about taste and fashion here, but I am shocked to see more than one person picking a film by Joshua Logan, arguably the worst director ever.
1. A Man Escaped
The Searchers
The Killing
Street of Shame
Written on the Wind
Aparajito
We’re allowed to vote 50 titles this time, aren’t we? I think my #100 is still a very good film…
1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
The Searchers (John Ford)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille)
Number 10 (Harry Smith) (here representing of the Early Abstractions series)
The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot and Pablo Picasso)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang)
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
Punishment Room (Kon Ichikawa)
Bigger than Life (Nicholas Ray)
Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox)
What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street (Rudy Burckhardt and Joseph Cornell)
A Man Escaped
The Searchers
Bigger than Life
Early Spring
Aparajito
Bob le flambeur
Written on the Wind
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Silent World
Victory Is Mine
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Bad Seed – simply because John Waters loves it so much
(1) Yield to the Night
Runners-up: The Battle of the River Plate and A Town Like Alice
A Man Escaped
And God Created Woman
Baby Doll
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Bigger Than Life
Bus Stop
Crazed Fruit
Early Spring
Gervais
Godzilla
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Patterns
The Burmese Harp
The Girl Can’t Help It
The Great Man
The Killing
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Red Balloon
The Wrong Man
Written on the Wind
MovieGuide1
What I’m asking you to do is to fill a ballot with some titles of your own choice. 1956 must be the year of first release (according to IMDb).
- Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, only true favorites.
– There is no need to rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points.
– You may change your ballot as many times as you’d like.
A certain standardization of the outcome is predictable, but it is not our goal to establish a Canon. It’s just a game and individual votes are the true centers of attraction.
Results will be presented in a specially created Movie List.
Thank you in advance for joining us in this game.