1955 (Features/Shorts) Best to Worst
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1. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Director: Charles Laughton | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason
Votes: 97,429 | Gross: $0.65M
10/10
2. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Passed | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker, Arnold Stang
Votes: 12,225
10/10
3. One Froggy Evening (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A man futilely struggles to make his fortune with a frog that sings and dances, but only when it is alone with the owner.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: William Roberts
Votes: 6,109
10/10
4. The Hole Idea (1955)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A scientist invents the portable hole, only to have a thief steal his samples to go on a crime spree.
Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 424
10/10
5. The Man from Laramie (1955)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Western
Newcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell
Votes: 12,015
9/10
6. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger
Votes: 24,269
9/10
7. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus
Votes: 98,000
9/10
8. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Not Rated | 106 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez
Votes: 22,092
9/10
9. East of Eden (1955)
PG | 118 min | Drama
Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, Burl Ives
Votes: 48,837
9/10
10. The Ladykillers (1955)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom
Votes: 31,415
9/10
11. The Dam Busters (1955)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, History, War
Drama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney
Votes: 11,375
9/10
12. Beanstalk Bunny (1955)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (as Jack) find themselves at the top of a beanstalk where they get chased around by a giant Elmer Fudd.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Votes: 809
9/10
13. Knight-Mare Hare (1955)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
An apple falls on Bugs' head, transporting him back to King Arthur's England.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 821
9/10
14. Sahara Hare (1955)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Riff-Raff (Yosemite) Sam, riding a camel that won't whoa, chases Bugs into a French Foreign-Legion post.
Directors: Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 917
9/10
15. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
When his family goes away for the summer, a hitherto faithful husband with an overactive imagination is tempted by a beautiful neighbor.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts
Votes: 42,501 | Gross: $12.00M
8/10
16. The Trouble with Harry (1955)
PG | 99 min | Comedy, Mystery
Harry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick
Votes: 41,288
8/10
17. Jumpin' Jupiter (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Porky and Sylvester's desert campground is sliced away and towed into outer space by a green, bird-like Jupiterian searching for earthly animal life. But Porky remains blissfully unaware, leaving Sylvester to be terrorized by the alien.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 549
8/10
18. Red Riding Hoodwinked (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
The classic story of Little Red Riding Hood has a new twist. Set in more modern times, this story about Red takes Tweety to visit her sick Grandmother. Both Sylvester and the Big Bad Wolf try to capture Red and Tweety.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, June Foray
Votes: 476
8/10
19. Guided Muscle (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
While cooking a tin can, the Coyote spots a better meal rushing by- the Road Runner. But making himself into a giant arrow doesn't catch the bird, and the book, "How to Tar and Feather a Road Runner", isn't much help either.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Paul Julian
Votes: 930
8/10
20. Deputy Droopy (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A jailhouse, a tempting safe, and a sleeping sheriff. Can the two villains make off with the loot without waking him up? Not if deputy Droopy, who is on patrol guarding the safe, has his ... See full summary »
Directors: Tex Avery, Michael Lah | Stars: Bill Thompson, Tex Avery, Daws Butler
Votes: 803
8/10
21. Ready.. Set.. Zoom! (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Among the strategies that fail in Wile E. Coyote's attempts to catch the Roadrunner: glue on the road, a giant rubber band, an outboard motor in a wash tub, and dressing in drag as a female Roadrunner.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Paul Julian
Votes: 887
8/10
22. Rabbit Rampage (1955)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Bugs argues with the cartoonist who creates him over how he should be drawn.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Votes: 822
8/10
23. The Court Jester (1955)
Approved | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King.
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 13,957 | Gross: $0.02M
7/10
24. To Hell and Back (1955)
Approved | 106 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, Jack Kelly
Votes: 5,969
7/10
25. The First Bad Man (1955)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The first Texas bad man come running into town a million years B.C.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Ritter, Tex Avery, June Foray
Votes: 452
7/10
26. Heir-Conditioned (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Sylvester inherits a fortune while Elmer fights off the cat's greedy friends and teaches about the need to invest the money.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Daws Butler, Stan Freberg
Votes: 311
7/10
27. The Big Combo (1955)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A police lieutenant is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He goes after Brown's girlfriend, who despises him, for information instead.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 8,626
6/10
28. The Naked Street (1955)
Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mobster (Quinn) springs a condemned murderer (Granger) because he got his sister (Bancroft) pregnant.
Director: Maxwell Shane | Stars: Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft, Peter Graves
Votes: 1,314
6/10
29. The Square Jungle (1955)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
A grocery store clerk turns prizefighter to win prize money to bail his drunken father out of jail.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Tony Curtis, Pat Crowley, Ernest Borgnine, Paul Kelly
Votes: 410
6/10
30. House of Bamboo (1955)
Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Planted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.S. Army Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 4,097
6/10
31. New York Confidential (1955)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A top syndicate crime boss and his corrupt politicians make multi-million deals and order murders until the vicious pattern finally catches up to them.
Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Anne Bancroft, Marilyn Maxwell
Votes: 1,009
6/10
32. Finger Man (1955)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An ex-con goes undercover for the government to "finger" the crime boss who made his sister a drug addict.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle, Timothy Carey
Votes: 426
6/10
33. Jedda the Uncivilized (1955)
101 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Set against the harsh natural surrounds of outback Northern Territory, Jedda captures a rare and honest glimpse into the heart and history of indigenous Australia. Young Jedda is caught ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chauvel | Stars: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Robert Tudawali, Betty Suttor, Paul Reynall
Votes: 402
6/10
34. That's My Mommy (1955)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
When a duck hatches from the egg underneath Tom, he is convinced he is his mother. Tom thinks that he would like to eat the newborn duck, but Jerry shows him the truth while saving him from being eaten.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Red Coffey, William Hanna
Votes: 834
6/10
35. Cellbound (1955)
Approved | 6 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
Spike has just finished the 20-year process of digging a tunnel from his prison cell but he picks the wrong place to hide.
Directors: Tex Avery, Michael Lah | Stars: Tex Avery, Gus Bivona, Paul Frees, William Hanna
Votes: 489
6/10
36. Up a Tree (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Donald's playing lumberjack, but the targeted tree just happens to be the home of Chip 'n Dale. They give Donald plenty of trouble cutting down the tree, but eventually he succeeds. The ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: James MacDonald, Dessie Flynn, Clarence Nash, Norma Swank
Votes: 573
6/10
37. Hyde and Hare (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bugs Bunny gets himself adopted as a pet by a kindly soul who has been feeding him carrots every day. Bugs' friend turns out to be Dr. Jekyll who drinks his evil potion and turns into a monster.
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,274
6/10
38. Chicago Syndicate (1955)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A former military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with her own agenda.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Abbe Lane, Paul Stewart, Xavier Cugat
Votes: 624
5/10
39. Roman Legion-Hare (1955)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
At the Coliseum, Emperor Nero want to threw a victim to the lions, but finds out that they ran out of victims. So he orders Yosemite Sam to fetch one for him. After noticing Bugs Bunny, Sam tries to make him the victim.
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 908
5/10
40. Tarantula (1955)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in gigantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva
Votes: 10,781 | Gross: $1.10M
4/10
41. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
G | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.
Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Cutting | Stars: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, Bill Thompson
Votes: 148,573 | Gross: $93.60M
4/10
42. Queen Bee (1955)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance
When a young woman arrives at the home of her socialite cousin, she soon gets sucked into the woman's complex web of deceit.
Director: Ranald MacDougall | Stars: Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland
Votes: 2,621
4/10
43. This Island Earth (1955)
Passed | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Aliens come to Earth seeking scientists to help them in their war.
Directors: Joseph M. Newman, Jack Arnold | Stars: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller
Votes: 10,687
4/10*
44. Smarty Cat (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Nobody's home, so Tom invites his alley cat friends in to look at home movies (clips from earlier cartoons where Tom gets the drop on Spike). While they're showing them, Spike sneaks in.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Daws Butler, William Hanna, Jerry Mann
Votes: 701
4/10
45. The Crooked Web (1955)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Government agent tries to trick a suspect into returning to Germany, the scene of his crimes.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Mari Blanchard, Richard Denning, John Mylong
Votes: 511
3/10
46. Bicep Built for Two (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Romance
From Press Kit: Katnip's serenading of a girl cat is interrupted by a tough cat that runs him off and takes over.The love-lorn Katnip is determined to best the muscle-bound cat and enlists ... See full summary »
Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Tom Golden | Stars: Jackson Beck, Mae Questel, Sid Raymond
Votes: 26
3/10
47. The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean
Votes: 7,187
2/10
48. Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Passed | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Men capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva
Votes: 7,033
1/10
49. A Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
Not Rated | 83 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
One day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.
Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Vladimír Bejval, Zdenek Hustak, Josef Lukás, James Lucas
Votes: 2,506
1/10
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