Cast A Dark Shadow (1955)

Well, you pretty much have to watch this 1955 thriller play adaptation - the play is called Murder Mistaken - not just for a well-delivered surprise towards the end but also for the jaw-dropping endscenes in which one particular female character stands up to a killer in a terrifying shouting match that I think is unprecedented in its melodrama - the only similar scene I can think of is Sigourney Weaver's Helen Hudson inviting a crazed serial killer to put up his dukes in that rooftop scene in Copycat. 

★★★☆☆

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To Catch A Thief (1955)

All the ingredients of a ripping Hitchcock comedy thriller are here - the exotic French Riviera setting beautifully photographed in VistaVision; a book's ripping plot with Cary Grant starring as "The Cat", a retired jewel thief wrongly accused of a string of copycat robberies; Grace Kelly as the blonde who wavers between suspecting and loving the hero; experimental camerawork using colour filters; a cameo by the director; and yet reading the plot synopsis on Wikipedia is a more exciting thing to do than watching this, one of Hitchcock's most tedious movies, repetitive, low on suspense, and to the end unthrilling.

★★★☆☆

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The Trouble With Harry (1955)

In fact, not one of the oddball characters in this Hitchcock comedy cares less about Harry whose body turns up on its back in the Vermont countryside, but they all come together in a claustrophobic sphere of action to deal with the matter of his body which, for no satisfactory reason, they wish to disappear.

★★★☆☆

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Ikimono no Kiroku (aka 'Record of a Living Being' and 'I Live In Fear') (1955)

The family of a foundry owner seeks to declare him mentally incompetent to prevent him squandering the family fortune on his plans, out of fear of the hydrogen bomb, to emigrate to Brazil, in this Kurosawa drama about fear and self-interest in post-war Japan.

★★★★☆

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