Francisco Madero and Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) during the Mexican Revolution The Secret People – 1952 film by Thorold Dickinson in which a plot to assassinate a European dictator goes awry, killing an innocent bystander Julius Caesar – 1953 film by Joseph L. Mankiewicz about the assassination of Julius Caesar (Louis Calhern) in the Roman Senate on the Ides of March, 44 BC, adapted from Shakespeare's tragedy Lucrèce Borgia – 1953 French film by Christian-Jaque in which César Borgia (Pedro Armendáriz) plots the assassination of the Duke of Milan (Gilles Quéant), the first husband of his sister Lucrèce (Martine Carol), then plots again against her second husband, Alphonse of Aragon (Massimo Serato), in 1498 Canaris – 1954 West German film by Alfred Weidenmann about how the assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in 1942 fails to prevent the arrest and execution of Abwehr chief and British agent Wilhelm Canaris in 1945 Suddenly – 1954 film by Lewis Allen about a would-be presidential assassin (Frank Sinatra) Jackboot Mutiny (a.k.a. It Happened on 20 July) – 1955 West German film by G.W. Pabst about the Stauffenberg plot against Adolf Hitler, starring Bernhard Wicki Prince of Players – 1955 film by Philip Dunne about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Stanley Hall) by John Wilkes Booth (John Derek) The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (Der 20. Juli) – 1955 West German film by Falk Harnack about the Stauffenberg plot against Adolf Hitler, starring Wolfgang Preiss Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse – 1955 East German film by Kurt Maetzig in which Ernst Thälmann, German Communist Party leader, is murdered in Buchenwald in 1944 Sissi – 1955 Austrian film and sequels, by Ernst Marischka, commemorate "Sissi", Queen Empress of Austro-Hungary (Romy Schneider), although none depict her 1898 assassination by an anarchist Alexander the Great – 1956 film by Robert Rossen in which Alexander (Richard Burton) ascends the throne of Macedon after the assassination of King Philip (Fredric March) in 336 BC. Mio figlio Nerone (a.k.a. My Son Nero and Nero's Big Weekend) – 1956 Italian comedy by Steno in which mad Roman Emperor Nero tries over and over to assassinate his mother Agrippina (Gloria Swanson), amongst others I Killed Wild Bill Hickok – 1956 Western by Richard Talmadge about the assassination of lawman Wild Bill Hickok (Tom Brown) in 1876, loosely based on the story of Hickok's assassin Anastasia – 1956 film by Anatole Litvak concerns a