Comedy Movies
The Girl Can’t Help It (1956)
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.
Everything But the Truth (1956)
Upset with the prevarications of the adult world, Willie launches a truth-telling campaign at school, with the blessings of his pretty teacher Joan Madison.
Rock Pretty Baby (1956)
A high school rock group enters a band contest.
The Great American Pastime (1956)
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.
The Opposite Sex (1956)
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when…
Shake Rattle and Rock! (1956)
A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock ‘n’ roll palace for teens.
You Can’t Run Away from It (1956)
A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler’s 1956 film stars ’50s teen favorites Tab…
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short…
A Touch of the Sun (1956)
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.
Fighting Trouble (1956)
An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
Elena and Her Men (1956)
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but…
Loser Takes All (1956)
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed…
Hot Stuff (1956)
The stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio…
The Iron Petticoat (1956)
Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her…
Bus Stop (1956)
Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native…
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question…
Insect to Injury (1956)
Popeye has just finished his house when a band of termites attacks.
Francis in the Haunted House (1956)
A Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got ‘Em! …and it’s every ghost for himself!
Smiley (1956)
Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father Bill is a poor drover who is…
The Catered Affair (1956)
An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter’s wedding.
The Baby and the Battleship (1956)
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails…
Don Juan (1956)
It’s Never Too Late (1956)
To Laura Hammond’s large family, she is simply the mother who makes all their lives run more smoothly. But although they don’t know it, she is a very successful novelist…
Totò Double or Nothing? (1956)
Anything Goes (1956)
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each ‘discovers’ the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises…
The Swan (1956)
Princess Beatrice’s days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit…
Our Miss Brooks (1956)
The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950’s. Arden stars as Connie Brooks, wisecracking English teacher at Madison High School, still hoping to tie the knot with…
Popeye for President (1956)
Popeye and Bluto are running for President. It’s election day, the vote is tied, and Olive Oyl is the only remaining voter. However, she won’t vote, and the election outcome…
Rock Around the Clock (1956)
A frustrated big-band promoter runs in to rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets at a small-town dance. He quickly becomes their manager and, with the help of Alan Freed, hopes…
Who Done It? (1956)
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a…