5 Off My Head - Siri Says 1955

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It's Tuesday and you know what that means - it means the voices are talking to me again! Specifically just one from my phone, and only when asked to. So, not nearly the David Berkowitz situation you all feared. (Give it time.) Anyway I asked Siri for a number between 1 and 100 and this week she gave me 55 - so The Movies of 1955 it is. And what a great time for the movies! Alfred Hitchcock was churning 'em out, two of James Dean's three total movies were out that year, and Marilyn Monroe was scratching that itch. But which, pray-tell, of that year's fine crop were my faves? Including one of my favorite movies of any year ever, even? Well let's take a look-see...

My 5 Favorite Movies of 1955

The Night of the Hunter

(dir. Charles Laughton)

-- released on September 29th, 1955 -

To Catch a Thief

(dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

-- released on August 3rd, 1955 -

Les diaboliques

(dir.  Henri-Georges Clouzot)

-- released on November 21st, 1955 -

All That Heaven Allows

(dir. Douglas Sirk)

-- released on December 25th, 1955 -

Summertime

(dir. David Lean)

-- released on June 21st, 1955 -

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Runners-up: The Seven Year Itch (dir. Billy Wilder)
 East of Eden (dir. Elia Kazan)

Rebel Without a Cause (dir. Nicholas Ray)

The Trouble With Harry (dir. Alfred Hitchcock) 

The Ladykillers (dir. Alexander Mackendrick)

Never seen: Night and Fog (dir. Alain Resnais), Ordet (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer), Bad Day at Black Rock (dir. John Sturges), Kiss Me Deadly (dir. Robert Aldrich), Killer's Kiss (dir. Kubrick), Marty (dir. Delbert Mann), Smiles of a Summer Night (dir. Bergman)

What are your favorite movies of 1955?

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