Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1955

Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date
January 1955
January 1 I'll Cry Tomorrow (Wide) $6,500,000
Love Me or Leave Me (Wide) $8,000,000
 
During 1955 Galapagos (1955) (Wide) $11,500,000
February 1955
February 9 Underwater (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
February 12 The Far Country (Limited) Universal  
 
February 16 The Wages of Fear (Limited) $21,228
 
February 18 Jupiter’s Darling (Limited) MGM  
 
February 27 Murder Is My Beat (Limited) Allied Artists  
March 1955
March 1 Smoke Signal (Limited) Universal  
 
March 18 A Life at Stake (Limited) Gibraltar Motion Pictures Distributors Inc.  
 
March 23 Stranger on Horseback (Limited) United Artists  
 
March 24 Man Without a Star (Limited) Universal  
 
March 25 Interrupted Melody (Wide) MGM  
April 1955
April 10 East of Eden (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
April 11 Marty (Limited)  
 
April 28 Kiss Me Deadly (Limited) United Artists  
 
 
April TBD Chief Crazy Horse (Limited) Universal  
May 1955
May 5 Daddy Long Legs (Limited) $21,766
 
May 16 Hiroshima (Limited) Continental Distributing  
 
May 17 The Country Girl (Limited)  
June 1955
June 3 The Seven Year Itch (Wide) 20th Century Fox $6,000,000
 
June 4 The Sea Chase (Wide) $12,000,000
 
June 15 This Island Earth (Limited) Universal  
 
June 18 Tall Man Riding (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
June 22 Lady and the Tramp (Wide) Walt Disney $93,600,000
 
June 23 Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy (Limited) Universal  
 
June 24 Land of the Pharaohs (Wide) $1,500,000
Moonfleet (Limited)  
July 1955
July 15 The Cobweb (Limited) MGM  
 
July 22 The Kentuckian (Limited) United Artists  
 
July 30 Mister Roberts (Wide) $21,200,000
August 1955
August 3 The Last Command (Limited) Republic Pictures  
To Catch a Thief (Limited) Paramount Pictures $8,750,000
 
August 5 The King’s Thief (Limited)  
 
August 14 The Phenix City Story (Limited) Allied Artists  
 
August 18 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (Wide) $10,000,000
 
August 19 Female on the Beach (Limited) Universal  
 
August 23 Fox Fire (Limited) Universal  
September 1955
September 2 It’s Always Fair Weather (Limited) MGM  
 
September 8 We’re No Angels (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
September 12 Othello (Limited) United Artists  
 
September 22 The Tall Men (Limited) $12,000,000
October 1955
October 1 Blood Alley (Limited)  
 
October 3 The Trouble With Harry (Wide) Paramount Pictures $7,000,000
 
October 20 Killers Kiss (Limited) United Artists  
 
October 25 The Big Knife (Limited)  
 
October 26 Rebel Without a Cause (Wide) Warner Bros.  
 
October 28 Illegal (Limited) Warner Bros.  
November 1955
November 3 Guys and Dolls (Limited)  
 
November 4 The Tender Trap (Limited) MGM  
 
November 7 Umberto D (Wide) Janus Films $74,308
 
November 9 I Died a Thousand Times (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
November 23 Tarantula! (Limited) Universal  
December 1955
December 3 El (Limited) Azteca Films $19,359
 
December 11 The Prisoner (Limited) Columbia  
 
December 13 The Rose Tattoo (Limited)  
 
December 19 The Night My Number Came Up (Limited) Continental Distributing  
 
December 31 The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (Limited)  
 
December TBD Picnic (Limited) Columbia