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[4] [5] A collection of many Official films was restored, [6] and released as a 2017 home video box set under the title 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012. [7] “ Official” films are those which have been arranged by the host city organizing committee and produced in compliance with the charter . [ 8 ]
Pages in category "Films about the 1956 Summer Olympics" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Kings of the Olympics: 1948 Documentary American film mostly culled from Olympia, Riefenstahl film on 1936 Summer Olympics. Olympia 52: 1952 Documentary French film about 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. Geordie: 1955 Comedy A not-so-wee Scot goes to Australia for the 1956 Summer Olympics. The Grand Olympics: 1961 Documentary
The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck.The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, which is itself based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon.
Freedom's Fury is a documentary film about the semifinal water polo match between Hungary and the USSR at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The match took place against the background of the Hungarian Revolution, that was brutally crushed by the Soviet army, and it quickly turned into a violent battle, with contemporaries dubbing it the "Blood in the Water match."
The Melbourne Olympic Arts Festival was an arts festival held in conjunction with the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. [1] [2] Melbourne was the first Games to have an arts festival as part of the official program.
The film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, starring Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner, is released only a few months after the film version of R&H's Carousel. It becomes the most financially successful film version of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical up to this time, and the only one to win an acting Oscar (Yul Brynner wins Best ...
The 29th Academy Awards were held on March 27, 1957, to honor the films of 1956.. In this year, Best International Feature Film became a competitive category, having been given as a Special Achievement Award since 1947.