1956 (Features/Shorts) Best to Worst
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- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsSterling HaydenColeen GrayVince EdwardsCrook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.10/10*
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsKevin McCarthyDana WynterLarry GatesA small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.10/10*
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneJeffrey HunterVera MilesAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.10/10*
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsNancy KellyPatty McCormackGage ClarkeRhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. After her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic, her mother starts to suspect that Rhoda was responsible.10/10*
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsPaul JulianWile E. Coyote unsuccessfully chases the Road Runner using such contrivances as a rifle, a steel plate, a dynamite stick on an extending metal pulley, a painting of a collapsed bridge (which the Coyote falls into while Road Runner passes right through), and a jet motor.10/10
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancIn a futuristic city, Detectives Monday and Tuesday pursue a wanted criminal.10/10
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsAldo RayAnne BancroftBrian KeithThrough a series of bizarre coincidences, an artist finds himself falsely accused of bank robbery and murder and is pursued by the authorities and the real killers.9/10
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsHumphrey BogartRod SteigerJan SterlingAn ex-sportswriter is hired by a shady fight promoter to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable rising star from Argentina.9/10
- DirectorJack LeeStarsVirginia McKennaPeter FinchKenji TakakiA newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Thinking back, she recalls the Australian man who made a great sacrifice to aid her and her fellow prisoners of war.9/10
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancDaws ButlerWhen Nasty Canasta cheats Bugs out of his gold, the rabbit retaliates by playing a naive hayseed whose effortless and unrelenting winning bankrupts Canasta's new casino.9/10
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancJune ForayWitch Hazel's claim to be the ugliest witch of all is threatened by a Halloween witch who turns out to be Bugs trick-or-treating.9/10
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsPaul JulianWile E. Coyote, tired of eating mud, chases after the Road Runner instead.9/10
- DirectorWei TeSet in ancient China. After a great victory, the general becomes complacent and out of practice. When the enemy returns, he acts like a punk.9/10
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsTom EwellJayne MansfieldEdmond O'BrienA gangster hires a down-and-out press agent to make his airheaded girlfriend a singing star.8/10
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsBing CrosbyGrace KellyFrank SinatraWith socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.8/10*
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanRobert C. BruceA psychological study of the behavioral effects of headgear as Bugs and Elmer continually switch personas depending on which hats they wear.8/10
- DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsPaul FreesBob LaztnyJack SabelAs Tom prepares to commit suicide, Jerry recounts the cat's hopeless lover's pursuit of the opportunistic lady that led to this.8/10
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsDaws ButlerJune ForayA cosmic mix-up results in a Martian baby being delivered to Earth, while an Earth baby is sent to Mars. Joseph Wilbur and his wife try to raise the green-skinned, ingenious Martian tyke as if he were an Earthling. But the kid builds his own spaceship and flies away, and Wilbur must find him and bring him back, or he'll never be able to make an exchange with the Martian parents for his own boy.8/10
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanJune ForayDaffy Duck must double for Bugs in any slapstick which Warners considers too dangerous for its star Bugs Bunny.8/10
- DirectorRussell RouseStarsGlenn FordJeanne CrainBroderick CrawfordIn the western frontier town of Cross Creek, storekeeper George Temple is a polite and soft spoken man with a secret past. When 3 bank robbers on the lam stop in town to change horses, George's past comes back to haunt him.7/10
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartDoris DayBrenda de BanzieAn American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.7/10
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancJune ForaySylvester is pressured to catch mice or leave the house. In desperation, he finds an outdoor mouse who will act the part.7/10
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancDaws ButlerFoghorn's annoying college buddy, Rhode Island Red, comes for a visit and then won't leave. What's worse, he muscles in on Foggy's harem and reverses most of Foggy's traps and tricks. A football session with an exploding casaba melon backfires when Red returns the pass; the exploding golf balls only explode when Foghorn hits them, and the fist in the camera only pops out when Foggy examines it to figure out what went wrong. But Foghorn finally gets the last laugh with a phony telegram about an inheritance and an exploding bowling ball as a parting gift.7/10
- DirectorCharles NicholsStarsClarence NashBill ThompsonThe spirit of Fate demonstrates how carelessness is responsible for much of Donald Duck's misfortune at home.7/10
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancJune ForayDaffy Duck is a detective who is hunting for the Shropshire Slasher.7/10
- DirectorElia KazanStarsKarl MaldenCarroll BakerEli WallachAn immature, naive teenage bride holds her anxious husband at bay while flirting with an amorous Sicilian farmer.6/10*
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancWile E. Coyote consults a "Univac Electric Brain (Do It Yourself)" in his efforts to catch Bugs.6/10
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsDaws ButlerJune ForayThe Honey-Mousers are starved for food and a cat stands between them and the refrigerator. Ralph and his friend concoct unsuccessful cat-passing techniques, the best being a Trojan dog made from a barrel.6/10
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsCarol OhmartTom TryonJody LawranceAn unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.6/10
- DirectorJack KinneyStarsDessie FlynnClarence NashNorma SwankChip and Dale are starving in their tree home when they notice a plentiful supply of acorns on an island in a lake. To get to the island, they borrow a miniature model ship of Donald's to sail on. The irate Donald, however, doesn't appreciate them stealing his ship and makes several attempts to get it back and thwart their scheme to get to their acorn paradise. Chip and Dale are, of course, always one step ahead of Donald.6/10
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancDaws ButlerDaffy Duck plays a superhero who can't do anything right while fighting a menace he does not know is non-existant.6/10
- DirectorFielder CookStarsVan HeflinEverett SloaneEd BegleyWhen Fred Staples is recruited onto the board of a high-powered New York corporation, he finds his ethics and ambition at odds.5/10
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancSalesman Daffy Duck comes upon a farm, the site of Foghorn Leghorn's ongoing feud with the barnyard dog, and proceeds to sell Foghorn and the dog contraptions to continue their violent, mutual heckling.5/10
- DirectorPeter GodfreyStarsAngela LansburyRaymond BurrDick ForanA lawyer suffers a guilt complex after getting a murder acquittal for his client, and then finding out she did commit the crime.5/10
- DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsDaws ButlerPaul FreesA dancing bear, who has escaped from a carnival, uses Tom as his reluctant dance partner.5/10
- DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsSara BernerWilliam HannaA baby woodpecker mistakes Jerry for his mother. The mouse rejects the newly hatched bird but soon finds himself protecting it against his feline nemesis, Tom.5/10
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancOn the French Riviera, a female cat is frightened by sudden outbursts of barking by every dog around her. So, to scare them away, she paints her back with a white stripe like that of a skunk. The dogs, on seeing her stripe, run away and hide in fright. But she doesn't receive the peace she'd expected, because Pepe Le Pew, the amorous French skunk, sees her, thinks she's a girl skunk, and tries to make love to her.5/10
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsElizabeth TaylorRock HudsonJames DeanSprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.4/10
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsEdmond O'BrienMichael RedgraveJan SterlingIn a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.4/10
- DirectorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsJulie BennettTom and Jerry are forced to take care of a baby because the babysitter is more interested in talking on the phone.4/10
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBugs takes a wrong turn off the Hollywood freeway and tunnels into the headquarters of Napoleon Bonaparte.4/10
- DirectorJack PollexfenStarsLon Chaney Jr.Max ShowalterMarian CarrCharles "The Butcher" Benton, a brutal death row inmate gets double-crossed by his crooked lawyer. He gets his chance for revenge when, after he's been executed, a bizarre experiment brings him back to life and more deadly than ever.3/10
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsMichel BouquetReinhard HeydrichHeinrich HimmlerThe history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.3/10
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancCrusoe, played by Yosemite Sam, has been living off coconuts for 20 years when Bugs washes up on his island.3/10
- DirectorFred M. WilcoxStarsWalter PidgeonAnne FrancisLeslie NielsenA starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.2/10*
- DirectorWill PriceStarsAlan Freed and his Rock 'n Roll BandFran ManfredTuesday WeldDori is trying to get together enough money to buy a strapless gown; Daddy has cut off Dori's allowance, but gee, she's gotta go to the prom.2/10
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsCharlton HestonYul BrynnerAnne BaxterMoses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.2/10*
- DirectorFred F. SearsStarsHugh MarloweJoan TaylorDonald CurtisExtraterrestrials traveling in high-tech flying saucers contact a scientist as part of a plan to enslave the inhabitants of Earth.2/10
- DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsLori NelsonChuck ConnorsJohn SmithAfter his kid brother is killed in a street race, a champion drag-racer quits racing. However, a new kid comes to town determined to force him back into racing so he can take his title--and he's already taken his girlfriend.1/10