Best award winning movies with good sound from 1957

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with good sound from 1957! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with good sound from 1957, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

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.

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1957-10-11 | Drama / History

Cast

William Holden, Alec Guinness

Rating

rating icon 7.829
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #18 for
    remarkable
  2. Ranked #39 for
    with mercenaries
  3. Ranked #42 for
    deservedly won awards

Trailer

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2 Peyton Place (1957)

In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.

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1957-12-13 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Lana Turner, Diane Varsi

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    equally talented cast
  2. Ranked #16 for
    afterschool special
  3. Ranked #22 for
    lurid

Trailer

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3 Sayonara (1957)

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

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1957-12-25 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #107 for
    Oscar nomination deserving
  2. Ranked #119 for
    deservedly won awards
  3. Ranked #164 for
    passionately in love

Trailer

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4 Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suits—but the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.

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1957-12-17 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power

Rating

rating icon 8.212
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #16 for
    cantankerous
  2. Ranked #33 for
    with cockney accent
  3. Ranked #37 for
    Courtroom Drama

Trailer

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5 Raintree County (1957)

In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.

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1957-12-20 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift

Rating

rating icon 6.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #43 for
    bloated
  2. Ranked #73 for
    cruel twist
  3. Ranked #187 for
    lugubrious

Trailer

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6 The Enemy Below (1957)

The crew of the American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes, detects a German U-Boat—resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.

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1957-12-25 | War

Cast

Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #39 for
    Aerial Combat
  2. Ranked #114 for
    cat-and-mouse
  3. Ranked #157 for
    gung-ho

Trailer

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7 Pal Joey (1957)

An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.

Info

1957-10-25 | Music / Romance

Cast

Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #32 for
    pin-up girl
  2. Ranked #70 for
    great soundtrack
  3. Ranked #90 for
    scrawny

Trailer

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8 A Hatful of Rain (1957)

A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.

Info

1957-07-17 | Drama

Cast

Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    tour de force
  2. Ranked #82 for
    canonical
  3. Ranked #87 for
    misty

Trailer

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9 Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)

A Roman Catholic nun and a hard-bitten US Marine are stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific during World War II. Under constant threat of discovery by a ruthless enemy, they hide in a cave and forage for food together. Their forced companionship and the struggle for survival forge a powerful emotional bond between them.

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1957-03-13 | Adventure / War

Cast

Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #165 for
    globetrotting
  2. Ranked #165 for
    Treasure Hunt
  3. Ranked #194 for
    gung-ho

Trailer

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10 12 Angry Men (1957)

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

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1957-04-10 | Drama

Cast

Martin Balsam, John Fiedler

Rating

rating icon 8.542
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #54 for
    proof positive
  2. Ranked #76 for
    Courtroom Drama
  3. Ranked #138 for
    good

Trailer

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