1956: World Premieres 1956: U.S. Releases 1956: Still Left to See 1956: Cannes Festival Looking Back Moving Ahead Browse Films by Title / Year / Reviews Home / Blog / E-Mail The Movies of 1956: World Premieres  By Grade // By Title, with Full Reviews Top Ten List 1.  Written on the Wind Dir. Douglas Sirk. With Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Lauren Bacall A 2.  Baby Doll Dir. Elia Kazan. With Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Mildred Dunnock A 3.  Gervaise Dir. René Clément. With Maria Schell, François Périer, Armand Mestral, Jacques Harden A– 4.  Giant Dir. George Stevens. With Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Chill Wills A– 5.  The Mystery of Picasso Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot. Documentary of Picasso in his studio A– 6.  Forbidden Planet Dir. Fred McLeod Wilcox. With Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis B+ 7.  The Bad Seed Dir. Mervyn LeRoy. With Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Evelyn Varden B+ Remainder of Films Screened The Forty-First Dir. Grigoriy Chukhrai. With Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov B The King and I Dir. Walter Lang. With Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Greg Thomson B Bigger Than Life Dir. Nicholas Ray. With James Mason, Barbara Rush, Christopher Olsen B– The Catered Affair Dir. Richard Brooks. With Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds B– Friendly Persuasion Dir. William Wyler. With Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins B– Julie Dir. Andrew L. Stone. With Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan, Frank Lovejoy C+ Tea and Sympathy Dir. Vincente Minnelli. With John Kerr, Deborah Kerr, Leif Erickson C+ Anastasia Dir. Anatole Litvak. With Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Martita Hunt C The Rainmaker Dir. Joseph Anthony. With Katharine Hepburn, Earl Holliman, Burt Lancaster C Miracle in the Rain Dir. Rudolph Maté. With Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Eileen Heckart C– The Ten Commandments Dir. Cecil B. DeMille. With Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner C– Around the World in 80 Days Dir. Michael Anderson. With David Niven, Cantinflas D In Need of Reappraisal The Searchers Dir. John Ford. With John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Henry Brandon, Ward Bond