October 1956 (The Search for Bridey Murphy)

• 5 Steps to Danger (USA - 1956 - bw)

• The Animal World (USA - 1956)
• Assignment Redhead /USA: Million Dollar Manhunt (UK - 1956 - bw)
• Attack (USA - 1956 - bw)

• The Best Things in Life Are Free (USA - 1956) (scope) [2.55:1] (4-channel)
• Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (USA - 1956 - bw) ¹
• Beyond Mombasa (UK - 1956)
• Blackjack Ketchum: Desperado (USA - 1956 - bw)
• The Burning Hills (USA - 1956) (scope)

• Cell 2455 Death Row (USA - 1955 - bw)
• Circus Friends (UK - 1956 - bw)
• City of Lost Men (serial) (USA - 1944 - 7 chapters - bw) ²

• Fernandel the Dressmaker (Le couturier de ces dames) (Fr - 1956 - bw)
• Find the Lady (UK - 1956 - bw)
• Five Steps to Danger [see: 5 Steps to Danger]
• Friendly Persuasion (USA - 1956)

• Girls' Dormitory (Girls Dormitory [Dortoir des grandes]) /USA: Inside a Girls' Dormitory (Fr - 1953 - bw)
• The Great Locomotive Chase (USA - 1956) (scope)
• Gun in His Hand (TVM) (USA - 1956 - bw) ³

• Hand of Fate (TVM) (USA - 1955 - bw) ⁴
• Harbour of Desire (Le port du désir) /USA: House on the Waterfront (Fr - 1954 - bw)
• House of Secrets /USA: Triple Deception (UK - 1956) (VistaVision)
• House on the Waterfront (see: Harbour of Desire)

• Inside a Girls' Dormitory (see: Girls' Dormitory)
• In Times Like These (TVM) (USA - 1956 - bw) ⁵
• It Conquered the World (USA - 1956 - bw)

• Lady in Fear (TVM) (USA - 1955 - bw) ⁶
• The Last Wagon (USA - 1956) (scope) (4-channel)
• Letters From My Windmill (Les lettres de mon moulin) (Fr - 1954 - bw)
• Loser Takes All (UK - 1956) (scope)
• The Lowest Crime (Chantage) (Fr - 1955 - bw)

• Mam'selle Striptease (En effeuillant la marguerite) /USA: Plucking the Daisy (Fr - 1956 - bw)
• Man in the Vault (USA - 1956 - bw)
• Miami Exposé (USA - 1956 - bw)
• Million Dollar Manhunt (see: Assignment Redhead)
• Munna (मुन्नाना) (India - 1954 - bw)

• Nightfall (USA - 1956 - bw)

• One Wish Too Many (UK - 1956 - bw)
• The Outlander (TVM) (USA - 1955 - bw) ⁷

• Please Murder Me (USA - 1956 - bw)
• Plucking the Daisy (see: Mam'selle Striptease)

• The Search for Bridey Murphy (USA - 1956 - bw) (VistaVision)
• The She-Creature (USA - 1956 - bw)
• The Silken Affair (UK - 1956 - bw)
• Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende) (Swd - 1955 - bw)
• Somebody Up There Likes Me (USA - 1956 - bw)
• Stella (Στέλλα) (Greece - 1955 - bw)
• A Strange Adventure (USA - 1956 - bw)

• These Wilder Years (USA - 1956 - bw) (Perspecta Sound)
• They Never Learn (UK - 1956 - bw)
• Thundering Gun Slingers (USA - 1944 - bw)
• A Touch of the Sun (UK - 1956 - bw)
• Triple Deception (see: House of Secrets)

• Under the Black Flag (Aus - 1954) ⁸

• Written on the Wind (USA - 1956)

• You Can’t Run Away From It (USA - 1956) (scope)

¹ Badly cropped from 1.37:1 to scope dimensions for UK release, promoted as ‘RKO-Scope’.

² Condensed version of 12-chapter serial The Lost City (1935). The trade register claims this was reworked as a 7-chapter serial for UK release, but the BBFC entry makes no mention of individual chapters.

³ Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955-57).

⁴ Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Warner Brothers Presents (1955-56).

⁵ Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955-57).

⁶ Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Kings Row (1955-56).

⁷ Originally broadcast on US TV as an episode of Cheyenne (1955-63).

⁸ Episodes of the TV series The Adventures of Long John Silver (1954-55), edited together and released as a theatrical feature.

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Unless otherwise indicated, titles listed in this entry were first registered with the UK Board of Trade in Oct 1956. Theatrical release dates may differ.

Updated 6 Dec 2022.

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