Top Ten of 1955: World Premieres (Favorites in Major Categories) 1.  Pather Panchali Dir. Satyajit Ray. With Subir Banerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Karuna Banerjee A 2.  Smiles of a Summer Night Dir. Ingmar Bergman. With Gunnar Björnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck A 3.  Night and Fog Dir. Alain Resnais. Documentary about World War II concentration camps A 4.  The Night of the Hunter Dir. Charles Laughton. With Robert Mitchum, Billy Chapin A– 5.  Rebel without a Cause Dir. Nicholas Ray. With James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo A– 6.  All that Heaven Allows Dir. Douglas Sirk. With Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson A– 7.  Diabolique Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot. With Véra Clouzot, Simone Signoret B+ 8.  I'll Cry Tomorrow Dir. Daniel Mann. With Susan Hayward, Jo Van Fleet, Richard Conte B+ 9.  East of Eden Dir. Elia Kazan. With James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey B+ 10.  Lola Montès Dir. Max Ophüls. With Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook B More Grades from 1955 Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade         Guys and Dolls Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons C–       Killer's Kiss Dir. Stanley Kubrick. With Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Frank Silvera, Jerry Jarret B       Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Dir. Henry King. With Jennifer Jones, William Holden D+       Marty Dir. Delbert Mann. With Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti, Joe Mantell B       Pete Kelly's Blues Dir. Jack Webb. With Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien D+       The Rose Tattoo Dir. Daniel Mann. With Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan B–   Also from 1955 The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain   Fair       Summertime Dir. David Lean. With Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda   Feh       Oklahoma! Dir. Fred Zinnemann. With Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame Trackbacks:       Permalink       Movies of the 1950s       Home       Blog       E-Mail