1956 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner
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Anastasia
An opportunistic Russian businessman tries to pass a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia. But she is so convincing in her performance that even the biggest skeptics believe her.
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Around the World in 80 Days
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
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Bus Stop
A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
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Friendly Persuasion
The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.
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Lust for Life
The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.
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Moby Dick
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain’s self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Boxer Rocky Graziano’s biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.
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The Catered Affair
At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception, because Jane’s …
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The King and I
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam’s children.
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The Man Who Never Was
True story of a British attempt to trick the enemy into weakening Sicily’s defenses before the 1943 attack, using a dead man with faked papers.