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Best Movies of 1956

Movie Mirrors

by Sanderson Beck

Movie Mirrors Introduction

Abbreviations
 Title

Min.

c S M H P V En Ed
 Alexander the Great 136   6  6  5  6  5  6  7
 Anastasia 105   6  8  6  6  7  6  6
 Around the World in Eighty Days 179   8  6  7  5  6  7  6
 Attack 107  b 8 6  6   6 6
 Baby Doll 114  b 7 6 7 6  6  6
 Bad Seed, The 129  b 6 6 5 4 5  6  6
 Benny Goodman Story, The 116  c 5 5 5 5 4  6  6
 Bhowani Junction 110  c 5 5 5 6 4  6  6
 Boss, The 89  b 6 6 5 4  5  6
 Brave One, The 100  c 6 6 5 7 6  6  5
 Burmese Harp, The (Japanese) 116  b 6 7 7 7 8  6  7
 Bus Stop 95  c 6 7 6 8 6  7  6
 Carousel 128  c 6 7 5 9 6  7  7
 Catered Affair, The 92  b 6 6 5 6 6  6  7
 D-Day the Sixth of June 106  c 6 6 4 3 6  6  6
 Forbidden Planet 98  c 7 7 6 7 7  6  7
 Friendly Persuasion 138  c 8 8 6 7 6  7  8
 Full of Life 91  b 6 6 5 5  6  6
 Gervaise (French) 117  b 6 6 5 5 6  6 7
 Giant 198  c 7 8 6 6 7 7 7
 Great Man, The 92  b 6 7 6  6  6
 Harder They Fall, The 109  b 6 7 5 6 6  6  6
 High Society 107  c 6 6 4 6 6  7  6
 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 80  b 8 7 8 9  6  5
 Killing, The 84  b 6 7 6 7 6  6  6
 King and I, The 133  c 7 7 5  8  7
 Lust for Life 122  c 8 8 6 6 7  6  7
 Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The 153  c 5 7 5  7  7
 Man Who Never Was, The 103  c 5 6 6  5  6
 Moby Dick 115  c 6 6 6  6  7
 Patterns 84  b 6 7 7 6 6  6  7
 Peacemaker, The 83  b 4  5  7
 Power and the Prize, The 98  b 5 5 5    6  6
 Rack, The 100  b 6 6 5  5  6
 Rainmaker, The 121  c 6 6 4 6 6  6  6
 Requiem for a Heavyweight 73  b 7 6  6  6
 Samurai 3: Duel on Ganryu Island (Jap.) 105  c 7 9 7  6  6
 Searchers, The 119  c 8 8 8 9 8  7  6
 Solid Gold Cadillac, The 99  b 6 6 6 6  7  7
 Somebody Up There Likes Me 113  b 7 7 5 8 6  7  7
 Tea and Sympathy 122  c 6 6 4 7 6  6  6
 Teahouse of the August Moon 123  c 6 7 5 6 5  7  6
 Ten Commandments, The 220  c 7 8 5 6 6  8  8
 Town Like Alice, A 116  b 6 5 6 4  6  6
 Trapeze 115  c 6 6 6 4 6  6  5
 Walk the Proud Land 89  c 6 6 4    6 7
 War and Peace 208  c 6 5 6 4 5  8 8
 Written on the Wind 99  c 7 6 6 6 7  6 5
 Wrong Man, The 105  b 7 6 5 7 7  6 7

Abbreviations
b = black and white
c = color
S = Scheuer's rating
M = Maltin's rating
H = Halliwell's rating
P = Martin & Porter's rating
V = Videohound's rating
En = Beck's entertainment value
Ed = Beck's educational value

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