List of British films of 1957

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A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1957 (see 1957 in film):

## 1957

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1957
The Abominable Snowman | Val Guest | Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Maureen Connell | Horror |
Account Rendered | Peter Graham Scott | Griffith Jones, Ursula Howells, Honor Blackman | Mystery |
Across the Bridge | Ken Annakin | Rod Steiger, Bernard Lee, Marla Landi | Thriller |
Action of the Tiger | Terence Young | Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom | Action |
The Admirable Crichton | Lewis Gilbert | Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes | Adventure/Comedy/Romance | Alternate title Paradise Lagoon
After the Ball | Compton Bennett | Patricia Kirkwood, Laurence Harvey, Jerry Verno | Biographical drama |
At the Stroke of Nine | Lance Comfort | Patricia Dainton, Stephen Murray, Dermot Walsh | Crime |
Barnacle Bill | Charles Frend | Alec Guinness, Maurice Denham | Comedy | Ealing Studios
The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Sidney Franklin | John Gielgud, Jennifer Jones, Bill Travers | Drama |
The Big Chance | Peter Graham Scott | Adrienne Corri, William Russell, Ian Colin | Drama |
The Birthday Present | Pat Jackson | Tony Britton, Sylvia Syms | Drama |
Black Ice | Godfrey Grayson | Paul Carpenter, Gordon Jackson | Adventure | [1]
Blue Murder at St Trinian's | Frank Launder | George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Joyce Grenfell | Comedy |
The Bolshoi Ballet | Paul Czinner | Galina Ulanova, Raisa Struchkova, Nikolai Fadeyechev | Musical |
Booby Trap | Henry Cass | Sydney Tafler, Patti Morgan | Crime | [2]
The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | Alec Guinness, William Holden, Sessue Hayakawa | World War II/POW | Number 11 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; winner of seven Academy Awards
Brothers in Law | Roy Boulting | Richard Attenborough, Ian Carmichael | Comedy |
Campbell's Kingdom | Ralph Thomas | Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker | Western |
Carry On Admiral | Val Guest | David Tomlinson, Peggy Cummins | Comedy |
Count Five and Die | Victor Vicas | Jeffrey Hunter, Nigel Patrick | World War II |
The Curse of Frankenstein | Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee | Horror | First starring role For Christopher Lee
The Devil's Pass | Darcy Conyers | John Slater, Joan Newell, Archie Duncan | Drama |
Dangerous Exile | Brian Desmond Hurst | Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee | Historical |
Doctor at Large | Ralph Thomas | Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow | Comedy |
The End of the Line | Charles Saunders | Alan Baxter, Barbara Shelley | Crime |
Face in the Night | Lance Comfort | Griffith Jones, Lisa Gastoni | Crime |
Fire Down Below | Robert Parrish | Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon, Robert Mitchum | Adventure |
The Flesh Is Weak | Don Chaffey | John Derek, Milly Vitale | Drama |
Fortune Is a Woman (U.S: She Played with Fire) | Sidney Gilliat | Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl | Crime |
The Girl in the Picture | Don Chaffey | Donald Houston, Patrick Holt | Crime |
The Good Companions | J. Lee Thompson | Eric Portman, Celia Johnson | Musical |
The Heart Within | David Eady | James Hayter, Clifford Evans | Drama |
Hell Drivers | Cy Endfield | Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins | Drama |
High Flight | John Gilling | Ray Milland, Bernard Lee | Drama |
High Tide at Noon | Philip Leacock | Betta St. John, William Sylvester | Drama | Entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival
Hour of Decision | C. M. Pennington-Richards | Jeff Morrow, Hazel Court | Mystery |
The House in the Woods | Maxwell Munden | Ronald Howard, Patricia Roc | Mystery | [3]
How to Murder a Rich Uncle | Nigel Patrick | Nigel Patrick, Charles Coburn | Comedy/crime |
The Hypnotist | Montgomery Tully | Paul Carpenter, Patricia Roc | Thriller |
Ill Met by Moonlight | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, Cyril Cusack | World War II |
Interpol | John Gilling | Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg | Crime |
Just My Luck | John Paddy Carstairs | Norman Wisdom, Jill Dixon | Sports/comedy |
Kill Me Tomorrow | Terence Fisher | Pat O'Brien, Lois Maxwell | Crime |
A King in New York | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Dawn Addams | Comedy |
Lady of Vengeance | Burt Balaban | Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Sears | Crime |
Let's Be Happy | Henry Levin | Vera-Ellen, Tony Martin | Musical |
The Little Hut | Mark Robson | Ava Gardner, David Niven, Stewart Granger | Comedy/romance | Co-production with the United States
The Long Haul | Ken Hughes | Victor Mature, Gene Anderson | Drama |
Lucky Jim | John Boulting | Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas | Comedy |
Man from Tangier | Lance Comfort | Robert Hutton, Lisa Gastoni | Crime |
The Man in the Sky | Charles Crichton | Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Sellars | Thriller |
The Man Without a Body | Charles Saunders | Robert Hutton, George Coulouris | Horror |
Manuela | Guy Hamilton | Trevor Howard, Elsa Martinelli | Drama | Entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival
Miracle in Soho | Julian Amyes | John Gregson, Belinda Lee | Romance |
Morning Call | Arthur Crabtree | Greta Gynt, Ron Randell | Thriller | Original title The Strange Case of Dr. Manning
The Naked Truth | Mario Zampi | Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount | Comedy |
Night of the Demon | Jacques Tourneur | Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins | Horror |
No Road Back | Montgomery Tully | Skip Homeier, Sean Connery | Crime |
No Time for Tears | Cyril Frankel | Anna Neagle, George Baker | Drama |
Not Wanted on Voyage | Maclean Rogers | Ronald Squire, Brian Rix | Comedy |
The One That Got Away | Roy Ward Baker | Hardy Krüger, Michael Goodliffe, Alec McCowen | World War II |
The Passionate Stranger | Muriel Box | Margaret Leighton, Ralph Richardson | Drama |
The Prince and the Showgirl | Laurence Olivier | Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe | Comedy/romance |
Quatermass 2 | Val Guest | Brian Donlevy, Sid James | Science-fiction |
Robbery Under Arms | Jack Lee | Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis | Crime | Filmed in Australia
Rockets Galore! | Michael Relph | Jeannie Carson, Donald Sinden, Roland Culver | Comedy |
Rogue's Yarn | Vernon Sewell | Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond, Elwyn Brook-Jones | Thriller |
Saint Joan | Otto Preminger | Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd | Historical |
The Scamp | Wolf Rilla | Richard Attenborough, Jill Adams | Drama |
Sea Wife | Bob McNaught | Joan Collins, Richard Burton | Thriller |
Second Fiddle | Maurice Elvey | Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters | Comedy |
The Secret Place | Clive Donner | Belinda Lee, Ronald Lewis | Drama |
Seven Thunders | Hugo Fregonese | Stephen Boyd, James Robertson Justice | World War II |
Seven Waves Away | Richard Sale | Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling | Adventure |
The Shiralee | Leslie Norman | Peter Finch, Dana Wilson | Drama | Filmed in Australia
Small Hotel | David MacDonald | Gordon Harker, Marie Lohr | Comedy |
The Smallest Show on Earth | Basil Dearden | Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers | Comedy |
The Steel Bayonet | Michael Carreras | Leo Genn, Kieron Moore | World War II |
The Story of Esther Costello | David Miller | Joan Crawford, Heather Sears | Drama |
Stranger in Town | George Pollock | Alex Nicol, Anne Paige | Crime |
Strangers' Meeting | Robert Day | Peter Arne, Delphi Lawrence | Crime |
The Surgeon's Knife | Gordon Parry | Donald Houston, Adrienne Corri | Crime |
Suspended Alibi | Alfred Shaughnessy | Patrick Holt, Honor Blackman | Crime |
Tarzan and the Lost Safari | H. Bruce Humberstone | Gordon Scott Robert Beatty | African adventure |
That Woman Opposite | Compton Bennett | Phyllis Kirk, Dan O'Herlihy | Crime |
There's Always a Thursday | Charles Saunders | Charles Victor, Jill Ireland | Crime |
These Dangerous Years | Herbert Wilcox | George Baker, Frankie Vaughan | Comedy |
Time Lock | Gerald Thomas | Robert Beatty, Betty McDowall, Sean Connery | Thriller |
The Tommy Steele Story | Gerard Bryant | Tommy Steele, Patrick Westwood | Musical |
Town on Trial | John Guillermin | John Mills, Charles Coburn | Mystery |
True as a Turtle | Wendy Toye | John Gregson, Cecil Parker | Comedy |
The Truth About Women | Muriel Box | Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris | Comedy |
The Vicious Circle | Gerald Thomas | John Mills, Lionel Jeffries | Thriller |
West of Suez | Arthur Crabtree | Keefe Brasselle, Kay Callard | Drama |
Windom's Way | Ronald Neame | Peter Finch, Mary Ure | Drama |
Woman in a Dressing Gown | J. Lee Thompson | Yvonne Mitchell | Drama | Mitchell won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at Berlin.
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst | Michael Anderson | Richard Todd, William Hartnell | Action |
You Pay Your Money | Maclean Rogers | Hugh McDermott, Jane Hylton | Crime |

## See also

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* 1957 in British music
* 1957 in British television
* 1957 in the United Kingdom

## References

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1. ^ "The Black Ice (1957)". Archived from the original on February 22, 2019.
2. ^ "Booby Trap (1957)". Archived from the original on February 22, 2019.
3. ^ "The House in the Woods (1957 film)".

## External links

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* Aardman Animations
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* Ealing Studios
* Elstree Studios
* Eon Productions
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* Amicus Productions
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* British National Films Company
* Butcher's Film Service
* Clapham Studios
* Clarendon Film Company
* Craven Park Studios
* Bryanston Films
* The Danzigers
* Denham Film Studios
* Eagle-Lion Films
* Eros Films
* Esher Studios
* G. B. Samuelson Productions
* Gainsborough Pictures
* Gate Studios
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* Ideal Film Company
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* MGM-British Studios
* Merton Park Studios
* The Rank Organisation
* Rock Studios
* Southall Studios
* Stoll Pictures
* Surbiton Studios
* Tempean Films
* Tigon British Film Productions
* Warwick Films
* Woodfall Film Productions
* Woolf & Freedman Film Service

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