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TopTenREVIEWS top movie of the year 1957 is 12 Angry Men.
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| 1 |  | 12 Angry Men (1957) |  3.9683 68 reviews | PG | Drama, Crime, Mystery |
$11.03
| The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if ...more about 12 Angry Men starring Martin Balsam and Lee J. Cobb |
| 2 |  | Sweet Smell of Success (1957) | 3.8324 42 reviews | NA | Drama, Film-Noir |
$4.99
| J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster), the most prestigious newspaper columnist in New York, recruits ...more about Sweet Smell of Success starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis |
| 3 |  | Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) | 3.8309 90 reviews | PG | Adventure, Drama, War |
$13.34
| In a WWII Japanese POW camp Col. Nicholson and his men are given the task to repair the bridge over ...more about Bridge on the River Kwai starring William Holden and Jack Hawkins |
| 4 |  | Seventh Seal, The (1957) |  3.6102 34 reviews | Not Rated | Drama, Thriller, Fantasy |
$24.29
| A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they ...more about Seventh Seal starring Max von Sydow and Inga Landgré |
| 5 |  | Old Yeller (1957) | 3.2588 30 reviews | G | Adventure, Drama, Western, Family, Disney |
$7.02
| Travis is the man of the house while his father is on a cattle drive. Travis is irritated when his ...more about Old Yeller starring Dorothy McGuire and Fess Parker |
| 6 |  | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) |  3.2087 20 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Mystery |
$10.65
| When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous ...more about Witness for the Prosecution starring Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich |
| 7 |  | Aparajito (1957) | 2.9817 12 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | After living awhile in Benares, 10 year old Apu and his mother move in with her uncle in a small ...more about Aparajito starring Kanu Bannerjee and Karuna Bannerjee |
| 8 |  | Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957) | 2.9803 33 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$5.99
| Baron Victor Frankenstein, in prison for murder and trying to evade the guillotine, tells a priest ...more about Curse of Frankenstein starring Peter Cushing and Hazel Court |
| 9 |  | Pal Joey (1957) | 2.9760 20 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical, Romance |
$10.23
| Joey Evans is charming, handsome, funny, talented, and a first class, A-number-one heel. When Joey ...more about Pal Joey starring Rita Hayworth and Frank Sinatra |
| 10 |  | Desk Set (1957) | 2.9290 33 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$9.27
| The mysterious man hanging about at the research department of a big TV network proves to be ...more about Desk Set starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn |
| 11 |  | Pajama Game, The (1957) | 2.9278 21 reviews | NA | Musical, Romance |
$12.71
| Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour ...more about Pajama Game starring Doris Day and John Raitt |
| 12 |  | Jailhouse Rock (1957) | 2.9002 20 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical |
$39.99
| Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his ...more about Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley and Judy Tyler |
| 13 |  | Abominable Snowman, The (1957) | 2.8967 23 reviews | NA | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi | N/A | A kindly English botanist and a gruff American scientist lead an expedition to the Himalayas in ...more about Abominable Snowman starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing |
| 14 |  | 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) | 2.8932 35 reviews | PG | Sci-Fi |
$19.99
| The first spaceship to visit Venus crash lands in the sea, freeing a small native Venusian creature ...more about 20 Million Miles to Earth starring William Hopper and Frank Puglia |
| 15 |  | Smallest Show on Earth, The (1957) | 2.8791 12 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$1.99
| Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out ...more about Smallest Show on Earth starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers |
| 16 |  | Funny Face (1957) | 2.8675 25 reviews | NA | Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$7.99
| Jo Stockton can only get to Paris to meet with the beatnik founder of "empathicalism" (a idea that ...more about Funny Face starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire |
| 17 |  | Three Faces of Eve, The (1957) | 2.8645 18 reviews | NA | Drama |
$4.86
| Eve White is a quite, mousy, unassuming wife and mother who keeps suffering from headaches and ...more about Three Faces of Eve starring Joanne Woodward and David Wayne |
| 18 |  | Nightfall (1957) | 2.8569 5 reviews | Not Rated | Drama, Crime, Film-Noir | N/A | CAST Aldo Ray Brian Keith Anne Bancroft Jocelyn Brando James Gregory Frank ...more about Nightfall starring Aldo Ray and Brian Keith |
| 19 |  | Affair to Remember, An (1957) | 2.8509 44 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$6.88
| Handsome playboy Nicky Ferrante and beautiful night club singer Terry McKay have a romance while on ...more about Affair to Remember starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr |
| 20 |  | Spirit of St. Louis, The (1957) | 2.8448 6 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, History |
$8.68
| Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his ...more about Spirit of St. Louis starring James Stewart and Murray Hamilton |
| 21 |  | Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957) | 2.8442 14 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi | N/A | ...more about Daughter of Dr. Jekyll starring Gloria Talbott and John Agar |
| 22 |  | Les Girls (1957) | 2.8401 8 reviews | NA | Musical |
$13.79
| After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", ...more about Les Girls starring Gene Kelly and Mitzi Gaynor |
| 23 |  | Fear Strikes Out (1957) | 2.8311 21 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography, Sports |
$3.90
| Jim Piersall is groomed by his loving but hard-driving father (living vicariously through his son) ...more about Fear Strikes Out starring Anthony Perkins and Karl Malden |
| 24 |  | Face in the Crowd, A (1957) | 2.8204 14 reviews | NA | Drama |
$12.71
| Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes is a hobo. Discovered by Marcia Jeffries, he will become a very famous TV ...more about Face in the Crowd starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal |
| 25 |  | Love in the Afternoon (1957) | 2.8173 13 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$9.76
| Director Billy Wilder salutes his idol, Ernst Lubitsch, with this comedy about a middle-aged ...more about Love in the Afternoon starring Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn |
| 26 |  | Forty Guns (1957) | 2.8120 16 reviews | NA | Western |
$6.88
| An authoritarian rancher, Barbara Stanwyck, who rules an Arizona county with her private posse of ...more about Forty Guns starring Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Sullivan |
| 27 |  | Incredible Shrinking Man, The (1957) | 2.8045 19 reviews | G | Horror, Sci-Fi | N/A | After an exposure to a strange mist, Scott Carey begins to shrink. After facing such trials as ...more about Incredible Shrinking Man starring Grant Williams and Randy Stuart |
| 28 | | Enemy Below, The (1957) | 2.8031 18 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War |
$9.27
| During World War II, the USS Haynes, an American destroyer escort discovers a German U-boat in the ...more about Enemy Below starring Theodore Bikel |
| 29 |  | Brain from Planet Arous, The (1957) | 2.8024 23 reviews | NA | Sci-Fi |
$7.99
| A powerful criminal brain from the planet Arous, Gor, assumes the body of scientist Steve March. ...more about Brain from Planet Arous starring John Agar and Joyce Meadows |
| 30 |  | Night of the Demon (1957) | 2.7887 32 reviews | NA | Horror, Mystery |
$20.87
| Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention ...more about Night of the Demon starring Dana Andrews and Peggy Cummins |
| 31 |  | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) | 2.7871 13 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$9.99
| Marine Corporal Allison is ship-wrecked on a Pacific island during world war II. The only other ...more about Heaven Knows starring Deborah Kerr |
| 32 |  | Monster That Challenged the World, The (1957) | 2.7561 15 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi |
$9.99
| An earthquake in the Salton Sea unleashes a horde of prehistoric mollusk monsters. Discovering the ...more about Monster That Challenged the World starring Tim Holt and Audrey Dalton |
| 33 |  | Beginning of the End (1957) |  2.7328 21 reviews | NA | Sci-Fi |
$14.06
| Audrey Ames, an enterprising journalist, tries to get the scoop on giant grasshoppers accidentally ...more about Beginning of the End starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle |
| 34 |  | Kronos (1957) | 2.7260 12 reviews | NA | Sci-Fi |
$7.99
| Scientists investigate what appears to be a meteorite that crashes into the ocean. After a few days ...more about Kronos starring Barbara Lawrence and John Emery |
| 35 |  | Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) | 2.7230 13 reviews | Not Rated | Comedy, Adaptation |
$34.97
| In this spoof of the TV advertising industry, Rockwell Hunter is the low man on the totem pole at ...more about Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? starring Tony Randall and Jayne Mansfield |
| 36 |  | Island in the Sun (1957) | 2.7145 8 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$9.99
| Set on a fictitious island in the Carribean during colonial British rule. It focuses on the life of ...more about Island in the Sun starring Joan Fontaine and Dorothy Dandridge |
| 37 |  | Bitter Victory (1957) | 2.7036 14 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, History, War |
$3.95
| Unfit commander receives an undeserved citation for an attack on Rommel's headquarters. Unbeknownst ...more about Bitter Victory starring Richard Burton and Curd Jürgens |
| 38 |  | Designing Woman (1957) | 2.6643 12 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$9.00
| On a vacation, sports journalist Mike meets designer Marilla. They fall in love and marry right ...more about Designing Woman starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall |
| 39 |  | Quatermass 2 (1957) | 2.6608 20 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi | N/A | Professor Quatermass, still shook up from London's refusal to proceed with his project to colonize ...more about Quatermass 2 starring Brian Donlevy and John Longden |
| 40 | | Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957) | 2.6499 7 reviews | NA | N/A | To further the aims of the St Trinian's Marriage Bureau run by Flash Harry, the school contrives to ...more about Blue Murder at St. Trinian's starring George Cole and Joyce Grenfell | |
| 41 |  | Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) | 2.6499 8 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography | N/A | Loose biography of actor Lon Chaney. Growing up with deaf parents, he learns what it is like to be ...more about Man of a Thousand Faces starring James Cagney and 'Snub' Pollard |
| 42 |  | Tin Star, The (1957) | 2.6442 10 reviews | NA | Western |
$9.99
| Veteran bounty-hunter Morg Hickman rides into a town in danger. The sheriff has been killed, and ...more about Tin Star starring Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins |
| 43 |  | Peyton Place (1957) | 2.6440 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$9.80
| Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of ...more about Peyton Place starring Lana Turner and Lee Philips |
| 44 |  | Black Scorpion, The (1957) | 2.6408 19 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi |
$5.99
| Giant scorpions demolish Mexico City. They have been released from underground caverns by a series ...more about Black Scorpion starring Richard Denning and Mara Corday |
| 45 |  | 3:10 to Yuma (1957) | 2.6362 19 reviews | NA | Western |
$3.95
| After outlaw leader Ben Wade is captured in a small town, his gang continue to threaten. Small-time ...more about 3:10 to Yuma starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin |
| 46 | | Cat Girl (1957) | 2.6286 5 reviews | NA | Horror | N/A | ...more about Cat Girl starring Barbara Shelley and Robert Ayres |
| 47 |  | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) | 2.5730 18 reviews | NA | Western |
$3.66
| After the long career of lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp deciedes to quit and join his ...more about Gunfight at the O.K. Corral starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas |
| 48 |  | King in New York, A (1957) | 2.5721 12 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy |
$6.99
| Due to a revolution in his country King Shahdov comes to New York - almost broke. To get some money ...more about King in New York starring Charles Chaplin and Maxine Audley |
| 49 |  | Naked Truth, The (1957) | 2.5582 7 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$13.49
| Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the ...more about Naked Truth starring Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers |
| 50 |  | Men in War (1957) | 2.5556 6 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$5.99
| In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held ...more about Men in War starring Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray |
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