Percy Herbert · 1957

2 Percy Herbert movies from 1957 on 4K Blu-ray, ranked S to D by transfer quality. 1 S-Tier pick including The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Decade

All 2 1950s 2

Year

All 2 1950 0 1951 0 1952 0 1953 0 1954 0 1955 0 1956 0 1957 2 1958 0 1959 0

The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957)

7.8/10

dir. David Lean

S-Tier

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

Sony Pictures · 60th Anniversary Edition

Quatermass 2(1957)

6.8/10

dir. Val Guest

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.