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44 relations: A. H. Weiler, Alvy Moore, BFI Southbank, Black-and-white, Blu-ray, Brian Keith, Christopher Nolan, Columbia Pictures, Eddie Muller, Frank Tashlin, George Duning, Good Housekeeping, Guy Madison, Harold's Club, Harry Cohn, Heist film, Jack Finney, James Ellroy, Jean Willes, Jo Ann Greer, Kerwin Mathews, Kim Novak, List of American films of 1955, Maracaibo (film), Martin Scorsese, Mary Costa, Michael Mann, Milly Vitale, Peter Godfrey (director), Phil Karlson, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Psychosis, Reno, Nevada, Robert Horton (actor), Roddy McDowall, Sony Pictures, Stirling Silliphant, Studio system, Sweet and Hot, The New York Times, The Three Stooges, The Washington Post, William Bowers, William Conrad.
- 1950s heist films
- Films based on works by Jack Finney
- Films directed by Phil Karlson
- Films with screenplays by Frank Tashlin
- Films with screenplays by Stirling Silliphant
A. H. Weiler
Abraham H. Weiler (December 10, 1908 – January 22, 2002) was an American writer and critic best known for being a film critic and motion picture editor for The New York Times.
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Alvy Moore
Jack Alvin "Alvy" Moore (December 5, 1921 – May 4, 1997) was an American actor best known for his role as scatterbrained county agricultural agent Hank Kimball on the CBS television series Green Acres.
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BFI Southbank
BFI Southbank (from 1951 to 2007, known as the National Film Theatre) is the leading repertory cinema in the UK, specialising in seasons of classic, independent and non-English language films.
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Black-and-white
Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey.
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Blu-ray
Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.
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Brian Keith
Robert Alba Keith (November 14, 1921 – June 24, 1997), known professionally as Brian Keith, was an American film, television, and stage actor who in his six-decade career gained recognition for his work in films such as the Disney family film The Parent Trap (1961); Johnny Shiloh (1963); the comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966); and the adventure saga The Wind and the Lion (1975), in which he portrayed President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Christopher Nolan
Sir Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British and American filmmaker.
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Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.
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Eddie Muller
Eddie Muller (born October 15, 1958) is an American author and the founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation.
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Frank Tashlin
Frank Tashlin (born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972), also known as Tish Tash and Frank Tash, was an American animator and filmmaker.
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George Duning
George Duning (February 25, 1908 – February 27, 2000) was an American musician and film composer.
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Good Housekeeping
Good Housekeeping is an American and British lifestyle media brand that covers a wide range of topics from home decor and renovation, health, beauty and food, to entertainment, pets and gifts.
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Guy Madison
Guy Madison (born Robert Ozell Moseley; January 19, 1922 – February 6, 1996) was an American film, television, and radio actor.
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Harold's Club
Harold's Club, also spelled Harolds Club, was a casino in Downtown Reno, Nevada that was established in 1935.
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Harry Cohn
Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891 – February 27, 1958) was a co-founder, president, and production director of Columbia Pictures Corporation.
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Heist film
The heist film or caper film is a subgenre of crime films and the caper story, focused on the planning, execution, and aftermath of a significant robbery.
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Jack Finney
Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (born John Finney; October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American writer.
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James Ellroy
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.
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Jean Willes
Jean Donahue (born Jean Willes; April 15, 1923 – January 3, 1989) was an American film and television actress.
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Jo Ann Greer
Katherine Joan Greer (April 3, 1927 – May 24, 2001), known professionally as Jo Ann Greer, was an American singer.
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Kerwin Mathews
Kerwin Mathews (January 8, 1926 – July 5, 2007) was an American actor best known for playing the titular heroes in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960), and Jack the Giant Killer (1962).
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Kim Novak
Marilyn Pauline "Kim" Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American retired film and television actress and painter.
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List of American films of 1955
A list of American films released in 1955.
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Maracaibo (film)
Maracaibo is a 1958 American drama film directed by Cornel Wilde and written by Ted Sherdeman. 5 Against the House and Maracaibo (film) are films with screenplays by Stirling Silliphant.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker.
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Mary Costa
Mary Costa (born April 5, 1930) is an American retired actress and singer.
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Michael Mann
Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, author, and producer, best known for his stylized crime dramas.
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Milly Vitale
Camilla "Milly" Vitale (16 July 1933 – 2 November 2006) was an Italian actress.
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Peter Godfrey (director)
Peter Godfrey (16 October 1899 – 4 March 1970) was an English actor and film director.
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Phil Karlson
Phil Karlson (born Philip N. Karlstein; July 2, 1908 – December 12, 1982) was an American film director.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.
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Psychosis
Psychosis is a condition of the mind or psyche that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real.
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Reno, Nevada
Reno is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada–California border.
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Robert Horton (actor)
Mead Howard "Robert" Horton Jr. (July 29, 1924 – March 9, 2016) was an American actor and singer.
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Roddy McDowall
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was a British and American actor, whose career spanned over 270 screen and stage roles across over 60 years.
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Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms.
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Stirling Silliphant
Stirling Dale Silliphant (January 16, 1918 – April 26, 1996) was an American screenwriter and producer.
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Studio system
A studio system is a method of filmmaking wherein the production and distribution of films is dominated by a small number of large movie studios.
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Sweet and Hot
Sweet and Hot is a 1958 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Joe Besser).
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Three Stooges
The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best remembered for their 190 short-subject films by Columbia Pictures.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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William Bowers
William Bowers (January 17, 1916 – March 27, 1987) was an American reporter, playwright, and screenwriter.
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William Conrad
William Conrad (born John William Cann Jr., September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor, producer, and director whose entertainment career spanned five decades in radio, film, and television, peaking in popularity when he starred in the detective series Cannon.
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See also
1950s heist films
- 5 Against the House
- Armored Car Robbery
- Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti
- Big Deal on Madonna Street
- Bob le flambeur
- Bugs and Thugs
- Drive a Crooked Road
- Du rififi chez les femmes
- Four Ways Out
- Guns, Girls and Gangsters
- Highway 301 (film)
- I Died a Thousand Times
- Kansas City Confidential
- Odds Against Tomorrow
- Rififi
- Roadblock (film)
- Six Bridges to Cross
- South Pacific Trail
- Stamp Day for Superman
- The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
- The Asphalt Jungle
- The Badlanders
- The Cape of Hope
- The Facts of Murder (film)
- The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
- The Hoodlum (1951 film)
- The Ladykillers (1955 film)
- The Lavender Hill Mob
- The Rebel Set
- Violent Saturday
Films based on works by Jack Finney
- 5 Against the House
- Assault on a Queen
- Good Neighbor Sam
- House of Numbers (1957 film)
- Maxie (1985 film)
- The Love Letter (1998 film)
Films directed by Phil Karlson
- 5 Against the House
- 99 River Street
- A Time for Killing
- A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
- Adventures in Silverado
- Behind the Mask (1946 film)
- Ben (film)
- Black Gold (1947 film)
- Bowery Bombshell
- Dark Alibi
- Down Memory Lane
- Framed (1975 film)
- G. I. Honeymoon
- Gunman's Walk
- Hell to Eternity
- Hell's Island
- Hornets' Nest
- Kansas City Confidential
- Key Witness (1960 film)
- Kid Galahad
- Kilroy Was Here (1947 film)
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Live Wires (1946 film)
- Lorna Doone (1951 film)
- Louisiana (1947 film)
- Mask of the Avenger
- Rampage (1963 film)
- Rocky (1948 film)
- Scandal Sheet (1952 film)
- Swing Parade of 1946
- The Big Cat (film)
- The Brigand (film)
- The Brothers Rico
- The Iroquois Trail
- The Missing Lady
- The Phenix City Story
- The Scarface Mob
- The Secret Ways
- The Shanghai Cobra
- The Silencers (film)
- The Texas Rangers (1951 film)
- The Wrecking Crew (1968 film)
- The Young Doctors (film)
- There Goes Kelly
- They Rode West
- Thunderhoof (film)
- Tight Spot
- Walking Tall (1973 film)
- Wife Wanted (1946 film)
Films with screenplays by Frank Tashlin
- 5 Against the House
- A Night in Casablanca
- A Woman of Distinction
- Artists and Models
- Caprice (1967 film)
- Cinderfella
- Gigot (film)
- Kill the Umpire
- Love Happy
- Marry Me Again
- Miss Grant Takes Richmond
- Monsieur Beaucaire (1946 film)
- One Touch of Venus (film)
- Rock-A-Bye Baby (film)
- Snow White and the Three Stooges
- Son of Paleface
- The Disorderly Orderly
- The First Time (1952 film)
- The Fuller Brush Girl
- The Fuller Brush Man
- The Geisha Boy
- The Girl Can't Help It
- The Good Humor Man (1950 film)
- The Lemon Drop Kid
- The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
- The Paleface (1948 film)
- The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
- The Scarlet Hour
- The Shakiest Gun in the West
- The Way of Peace (film)
- Variety Girl
- Who's Minding the Store?
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Films with screenplays by Stirling Silliphant
- 5 Against the House
- A Walk in the Spring Rain
- Catch the Heat (film)
- Charly (1968 film)
- Circle of Iron
- Death Scream
- Huk!
- In the Heat of the Night (film)
- Maracaibo (film)
- Murphy's War
- Mussolini: The Untold Story
- Nightfall (1956 film)
- Over the Top (1987 film)
- Pearl (miniseries)
- Salween (film)
- Shaft in Africa
- Space (miniseries)
- Telefon (film)
- The Enforcer (1976 film)
- The Killer Elite
- The Liberation of L.B. Jones
- The Lineup (film)
- The New Centurions
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)
- The Slender Thread
- The Swarm (1978 film)
- The Towering Inferno
- Village of the Damned (1960 film)
- When Time Ran Out