| Sierra Stranger | Lee Sholem | Western film |
| Slim Carter | Richard Bartlett | Western film |
| The Bachelor Party | Delbert Mann | drama film |
| The Guns of Fort Petticoat | George Marshall | Western film |
| The Little Hut | Mark Robson | romantic comedy |
| The Oklahoman | Francis D. Lyon | Western film |
| The Quiet Gun | William F. Claxton | Western film |
| The Sad Sack | George Marshall | comedy film |
| The Wayward Bus | Victor Vicas | drama film |
| The Wings of Eagles | John Ford | drama film, war film, biographical film |
| Zero Hour! | Hall Bartlett | disaster film |
| Backlash | John Sturges | Western film |
| Bigger Than Life | Nicholas Ray | drama film |
| Everything but the Truth | Jerry Hopper | comedy film |
| Francis in the Haunted House | Charles Lamont | comedy horror |
| Good-bye, My Lady | William A. Wellman | drama film |
| Hot Blood | Nicholas Ray | drama film |
| Jubal | Delmer Daves | Western film |
| Serenade | Anthony Mann | romance film, drama film, musical film |
| Slander | Roy Rowland | drama film, film noir |
| Slightly Scarlet | Allan Dwan | mystery film, film noir |
| Storm Center | Daniel Taradash | drama film |
| The Animal World | Irwin Allen | documentary film |
| The Eddy Duchin Story | George Sidney | drama film, biographical film |
| The First Traveling Saleslady | Arthur Lubin | Western film |
| The Last Hunt | Richard Brooks | Western film |
| The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Nunnally Johnson | drama film |
| The Rainmaker | Joseph Anthony | romance film, drama film |
| These Wilder Years | Roy Rowland | drama film |
| World in My Corner | Jesse Hibbs | drama film, boxing film |
| 24-Hour Alert | Robert M. Leeds | — |
| Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops | Charles Lamont | comedy film, crossover fiction, parody film |
| City of Shadows | William Witney | crime film |
| Conquest of Space | Byron Haskin | drama film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film |
| Duel on the Mississippi | William Castle | adventure film |
| Five Guns West | Roger Corman | Western film |
| Foxfire | Joseph Pevney | comedy drama |
| I Cover the Underworld | R. G. Springsteen | detective film, crime film |
| Man Without a Star | King Vidor | Western film |
| Oklahoma! | Fred Zinnemann | musical film |
| One Desire | Jerry Hopper | romance film, drama film |
| Pearl of the South Pacific | Allan Dwan | adventure film |
| Switzerland | Ben Sharpsteen | documentary film |
| The Adventures of Quentin Durward | Richard Thorpe | swashbuckler film |
| The Glass Slipper | Charles Walters | romance film, fantasy film, musical film |
| The Looters | Abner Biberman | adventure film |
| The McConnell Story | Gordon Douglas | drama film, biographical film |
| The Night Holds Terror | Andrew L. Stone | drama film, film noir |