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1955 crime drama films
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The list 1955 crime drama films includes
I Died a Thousand Times, Running Wild, Violent Saturday, The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing and The Desperate Hours.
The list consists of 56 members.
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Female on the Beach
1955 film by Joseph Pevney
Overview: Female on the Beach is a 1955 American crime-drama film directed by Joseph Pevney starring Joan Crawford and Jeff Chandler in a story about a wealthy widow and her beach bum lover. The screenplay by Robert ...
Release date: 19 August 1955Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, ThrillerDirector: Joseph PevneyProducer: Kentucky JonesWriter: Robert Hill, Peter PenduikMoving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives.
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
1955 American film
Overview: The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is a 1955 American film directed by Richard Fleischer from a screenplay by Walter Reisch and Charles Brackett, and starring Joan Collins, Ray Milland, and Farley Granger ...Release date: 1 October 1955Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, RomanceDirector: Richard FleischerCast: Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger, Luther Adler, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Glenda FarrellProducer: Charles BrackettWriter: Walter Reisch, Charles Brackett 0
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I Died a Thousand Times
1955 film by Stuart Heisler
Overview: I Died a Thousand Times is a 1955 American CinemaScope Warnercolor film noir directed by Stuart Heisler. The drama features Jack Palance as paroled bank robber Roy Earle, with Shelley Winters, Lee Marvin ...Release date: 9 November 1955Genre: Film-Noir, Crime, RomanceDirector: Stuart HeislerCast: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Lon Chaney Jr.Producer: W.R. Burnett, Willis Goldbeck 0
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Bad Day at Black Rock
1955 film
Overview: Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American film noir neo-Western film directed by John Sturges with screenplay by Millard Kaufman. It stars Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan with support from Anne Francis, Dean ...
Release date: 7 January 1955Genre: Drama, Western, Thriller, Mystery, CrimeDirector: John SturgesProducer: Herman Hoffman, Dore ScharyWriter: Millard Kaufman, Don McGuireA one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary. 0
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Running Wild
1955 film by Abner Biberman
Overview: Running Wild is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Abner Biberman and starring William Campbell, Mamie Van Doren, Keenan Wynn, and Kathleen Case. The film was often paired with Tarantula ...
Release date: 11 November 1955Genre: Drama, CrimeDirector: Abner BibermanProducer: Howard PineWriter: Ben Benson, Leo TownsendA young rookie cop goes undercover to bust up an auto theft ring run by juvenile delinquents. 0
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Violent Saturday
1955 film by Richard Fleischer
Overview: Violent Saturday is a 1955 American CinemaScope crime film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Victor Mature, Richard Egan and Stephen McNally. Set in a fictional mining town in Arizona, the film ...Release date: 1 April 1955Genre: Crime, Drama, ActionDirector: Richard FleischerProducer: Sydney Boehm, William L. HeathA number of otherwise insignificant small-town stories erupt into drama when a gang of hoodlums decides to rob the local bank... 0
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The Desperate Hours
1955 film noir directed by William Wyler
Overview: The Desperate Hours is a 1955 film noir starring Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March. It was produced and directed by William Wyler and based on the 1954 novel and 1955 play of the same name, written by ...Release date: 5 October 1955Genre: Film-Noir, Drama, Thriller, CrimeDirector: William WylerProducer: Robert Wyler, William WylerWriter: Joseph Hayes, Jay DratlerThree escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household. 0
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The Naked Street
1955 film by Maxwell Shane
Overview: The Naked Street is a 1955 American crime film noir directed by Maxwell Shane. The drama features Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn and Anne Bancroft in a story about an enforcer who tries to control his ...Release date: 1 August 1955Genre: Film-Noir, Drama, CrimeDirector: Maxwell ShaneProducer: Leo Katcher, Maxwell ShaneA mobster (Quinn) springs a condemmed murderer (Grainger) because he got his sister (Bancroft) pregnant. 0
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Six Bridges to Cross
1955 film by Joseph Pevney
Overview: Six Bridges to Cross or 6 Bridges to Cross is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Tony Curtis, George Nader and Julie Adams. Six Bridges to Cross is based upon the ...
Release date: 19 January 1955Genre: Drama, CrimeDirector: Joseph PevneyProducer: Aaron RosenbergWriter: Sydney Boehm, Joseph F. DinneenThe emotional story of a lifelong friendship between a Boston rookie cop and a young street-wise delinquent. 0
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Pete Kelly's Blues
1955 film directed by Jack Webb
Overview: Pete Kelly's Blues is a 1955 musical crime film based on the 1951 radio series of the same name. It was directed by and starred Jack Webb in the title role of a bandleader and musician. Janet Leigh is ...Release date: 31 July 1955Genre: Crime, Drama, MusicDirector: Jack WebbProducer: Richard L. Breen, Jack WebbIn 1927 Kansas City Pete Kelly and his jazz band play nightly at a speakeasy. A local gangster starts... 0
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Killer's Kiss
1955 film by Stanley Kubrick
Overview: Killer's Kiss is a 1955 American independently-produced crime film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick and written by Kubrick and Howard Sackler. It is the second feature film directed by Kubrick, following ...
Release date: 21 September 1955Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, ThrillerDirector: Stanley KubrickProducer: Morris Bousel, Stanley KubrickWriter: Stanley Kubrick, Howard SacklerAs a man waits at a train station for his girl, he tells us about the recent past and we segue into a long flashback. 0
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House of Bamboo
1955 film by Samuel Fuller
Overview: House of Bamboo is a 1955 American film noir shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color, directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller, and starring Robert Ryan. The other co-screenwriter was Harry Kleiner. The ...Release date: 1 July 1955Genre: Film-Noir, Drama, CrimeDirector: Samuel FullerProducer: Buddy AdlerWriter: Harry Kleiner, Samuel FullerPlanted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.S. Army Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official. 0
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Footsteps in the Fog
1955 British film by Arthur Lubin
Overview: Footsteps in the Fog is a 1955 British Technicolor Victorian-era crime thriller starring Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons, with a screenplay co-written by Lenore Coffee and Dorothy Davenport, and released ...Release date: 1 June 1955Genre: Drama, Thriller, CrimeDirector: Arthur LubinProducer: M.J. Frankovich, Maxwell SettonWriter: Dorothy Davenport, Lenore J. CoffeeTo his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows... 0
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Cell 2455 Death Row
1955 film
Overview: Cell 2455, Death Row is a 1955 American crime film noir directed by Fred F. Sears and starring William Campbell and Robert Wright Campbell. It is based on the 1954 book of the same name.Release date: 19 April 1955Genre: Crime, DramaDirector: Fred F. SearsCast: William Campbell, R. Wright Campbell, Marian Carr, Kathryn Grant, Harvey Stephens, Vince EdwardsProducer: Caryl Chessman, Jack DeWittWhit (William Campbell), condemned and awaiting execution, reviews the events of his life that has brought him to Cell 2455 on San Quentin's Death ... 0
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A Bullet for Joey
1955 film by Lewis Allen
Overview: A Bullet for Joey is a 1955 film noir directed by Lewis Allen and starring Edward G. Robinson and George Raft. The picture involves a gangster who sneaks into Canada to kidnap a scientist for the comm ...Release date: 15 April 1955Genre: Film-Noir, ThrillerDirector: Lewis AllenProducer: Samuel Bischoff, David DiamondWriter: James Benson Nablo, Daniel MainwaringMontreal: the former well-known gangster Joey Victor is fetched from Europe, where he was deported to from USA... 0
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Finger Man
1955 film by Harold D. Schuster
Overview: Finger Man is a 1955 American crime film noir directed by Harold D. Schuster and starring Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker and Peggie Castle .Release date: 15 June 1955Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, DramaDirector: Harold D. SchusterProducer: John H. Burrows, Lindsley ParsonsAn ex-con goes undercover for the government to "finger" the crime boss who made his sister a drug addict. 0
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Crashout
1955 film by Lewis R. Foster
Overview: Crashout is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Lewis R. Foster and starring William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, William Talman, Gene Evans, Marshall Thompson, and Beverly Michaels ...Release date: 1 March 1955Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, DramaDirector: Lewis R. FosterProducer: Hal E. Chester, Irving H. LevinWriter: Hal E. Chester, Lewis R. FosterThe survivors of a prison break set out on an arduous journey to retrieve some loot. 0
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Chicago Syndicate
1955 film by Fred F. Sears
Overview: Chicago Syndicate is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Fred F. Sears and starring Dennis O'Keefe and Abbe Lane.Release date: 1 July 1955Genre: Drama, CrimeDirector: Fred F. SearsCast: Dennis O'Keefe, Abbe Lane, Paul Stewart, Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra, Allison Hayes, Richard H. CuttingProducer: Joseph Hoffman, William Sackheim 0
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Bedevilled
1955 film by Mitchell Leisen
Overview: Bedevilled is a 1955 American crime drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Anne Baxter, Steve Forrest and Simone Renant.Release date: 28 April 1955Genre: Drama, CrimeDirector: Mitchell Leisen, Richard ThorpeProducer: Jo Eisinger, Henry BermanNightclub singer fleeing the scene of a murder is protected by a young man who is studying for the priest hood. 0
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Unchained
1955 film by Hall Bartlett
Overview: Unchained is a 1955 prison film written, produced and directed by Hall Bartlett (the first film directed by Bartlett) and starring Elroy Hirsch, Barbara Hale, Chester Morris, Todd Duncan, and Johnny J ...Release date: 19 January 1955Genre: Drama, CrimeDirector: Hall BartlettCast: Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, Barbara Hale, Chester Morris, Todd Duncan, Johnny Johnston, Peggy KnudsenProducer: Hall Bartlett, Kenyon J. ScudderA convict in a medium-security prison is torn between his need to finish out his sentence and get back to his wife and family, and his desire to escape ... 0
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