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The following is a list of American films released in 1953.
Donald O'Connor and Fredric March co-hosted the 26th Academy Awards ceremony on March 25, 1954, held at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. This was the ceremony's second year of being telecast, with viewership at an estimated 43,000,000.
The winner of the Best Motion Picture category was Columbia Pictures's From Here to Eternity. All of the big winners that year were black-and-white films.
The 11th Golden Globe Awards also honored the best films of 1953. That year, no award was given for Best Picture: Musical or Comedy.
Spencer Tracy won the Golden Globe for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama, for The Actress, while David Niven won Best Actor - Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for The Moon Is Blue. Audrey Hepburn won Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama for Roman Holiday, while Ethel Merman won for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for Call Me Madam. The Robe won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture.
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Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
The 49th Man |
Fred F. Sears |
Richard Denning, John Ireland |
Suspense |
Columbia |
99 River Street |
Phil Karlson |
John Payne, Evelyn Keyes |
Film noir |
United Artists |
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T |
Roy Rowland |
Tommy Rettig, Mary Healy |
Musical fantasy |
Written by Dr. Seuss |
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars |
Charles Lamont |
Abbott and Costello, Horace McMahon, Martha Hyer, Mari Blanchard |
Comedy |
Universal |
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Charles Lamont |
Abbott and Costello, Boris Karloff |
Comedy |
Universal |
Act of Love |
Anatole Litvak |
Kirk Douglas, Dany Robin |
Drama |
United Artists |
The Actress |
George Cukor |
Jean Simmons, Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright |
Drama |
Based on Ruth Gordon |
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis |
Don Weis |
Debbie Reynolds, Bob Fosse |
Musical comedy |
MGM; became TV series |
The All American |
Jesse Hibbs |
Tony Curtis, Lori Nelson, Mamie Van Doren |
Sports drama |
Universal |
All Ashore |
Richard Quine |
Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes |
Musical |
Columbia |
All I Desire |
Douglas Sirk |
Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, Lori Nelson |
Drama |
Universal |
All My Babies |
George C. Stoney |
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Educational |
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All the Brothers Were Valiant |
Richard Thorpe |
Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger |
Adventure |
Remake of 1923 film |
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap |
Fred F. Sears |
John Hodiak, John Derek |
Western |
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Appointment in Honduras |
Jacques Tourneur |
Glenn Ford, Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott |
Adventure |
RKO |
Arrowhead |
Charles Warren |
Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, Katy Jurado |
Adventure |
Paramount |
Baby Butch |
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Animated |
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The Bandits of Corsica |
Ray Nazarro |
Paula Raymond, Richard Greene, Raymond Burr |
Adventure |
United Artists |
The Band Wagon |
Vincente Minnelli |
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Jack Buchanan, Nanette Fabray |
Musical |
MGM; 5 Oscar nominations |
Battle Circus |
John Huston |
Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson, Robert Keith, Keenan Wynn |
Drama |
MGM |
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms |
Eugène Lourié |
Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway |
Science fiction |
Warner Bros. |
Beat the Devil |
John Huston |
Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre |
Comedy |
Written by Truman Capote |
Ben and Me |
Hamilton Luske |
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Animation |
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef |
Robert D. Webb |
Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland |
Adventure |
Fox |
The Big Heat |
Fritz Lang |
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin |
Film noir |
Columbia |
Big Leaguer |
Robert Aldrich |
Edward G. Robinson, Vera-Ellen |
Comedy |
MGM |
The Bigamist |
Ida Lupino |
Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmond O'Brien |
Drama |
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Blowing Wild |
Hugo Fregonese |
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Ruth Roman |
Drama |
Warner Bros. |
The Blue Gardenia |
Fritz Lang |
Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr |
Film noir |
Warner Bros. |
A Blueprint for Murder |
Andrew L. Stone |
Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill |
Thriller |
Fox |
Bully for Bugs |
Chuck Jones |
Looney Tunes |
Animation |
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon |
David Butler |
Doris Day, Gordon MacRae |
Musical |
On Moonlight Bay sequel |
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Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
The Caddy |
Norman Taurog |
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Donna Reed |
Comedy |
Paramount; debut of song "That's Amore" |
Calamity Jane |
David Butler |
Doris Day, Howard Keel |
Musical |
Warner Bros.; Oscar for Best Song |
Call Me Madam |
Walter Lang |
Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, Billy de Wolfe |
Musical |
based on play; Golden Globe for Merman |
Canadian Mounties vs Atomic Invaders |
Franklin Adreon |
Bill Henry |
Western |
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Captain John Smith and Pocahontas |
Lew Landers |
Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance |
Historical |
United Artists |
Cat-Women of the Moon |
Arthur Hilton |
Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory |
Science fiction |
Astor Pictures |
Cat-Tails for Two |
Robert McKimson |
Looney Tunes |
Animation |
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Catty Cornered |
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Animation |
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Cease Fire! |
Owen Crump |
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War |
Paramount |
The Charge at Feather River |
Gordon Douglas |
Guy Madison, Vera Miles |
Western |
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City Beneath the Sea |
Budd Boetticher |
Robert Ryan, Anthony Quinn, Mala Powers |
Adventure |
Universal |
City of Bad Men |
Harmon Jones |
Dale Robertson, Jeanne Crain, Richard Boone |
Western |
20th Century Fox |
City That Never Sleeps |
John H. Auer |
Gig Young, William Talman, Mala Powers, Paula Raymond, Chill Wills |
Thriller |
Republic |
The Clown |
Robert Z. Leonard |
Red Skelton, Jane Greer, Tim Considine |
Drama |
MGM |
Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe |
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Judd Holdren, Aline Towne |
Serial |
Republic |
Confidentially Connie |
Edward Buzzell |
Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern |
Comedy |
MGM |
Count the Hours |
Don Siegel |
Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey |
Crime |
RKO |
Cow Country |
Lesley Selander |
Edmond O'Brien, Helen Westcott |
Western |
Allied Artists |
Cruisin' Down the River |
Richard Quine |
Dick Haymes, Audrey Totter |
Drama |
Columbia |
Cry of the Hunted |
Joseph H. Lewis |
Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen |
Crime thriller |
MGM |
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Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
Dance Hall Racket |
Phil Tucker |
Lenny Bruce |
Drama |
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Dangerous Crossing |
Joseph M. Newman |
Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Carl Betz |
Mystery |
20th Century Fox; based on the play Cabin B-13 |
Dangerous When Wet |
Charles Walters |
Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson |
Musical |
MGM |
Decameron Nights |
Hugo Fregonese |
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan |
Romance |
RKO |
The Desert Rats |
Robert Wise |
Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton |
War |
20th Century Fox |
The Desert Song |
H. Bruce Humberstone |
Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae |
Musical |
Warner Bros.; based on the operetta |
Designs on Jerry |
Hanna-Barbera |
Tom and Jerry |
Animation |
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Destination Gobi |
Robert Wise |
Richard Widmark, Don Taylor |
War drama |
20th Century Fox |
Don's Fountain of Youth |
Jack Hannah |
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Animation |
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Donovan's Brain |
Felix E. Feist |
Lew Ayres, Nancy Davis |
Horror |
United Artists; Davis later became Nancy Reagan |
Down Among the Sheltering Palms |
Edmund Goulding |
Mitzi Gaynor, William Lundigan, David Wayne |
Musical |
20th Century Fox |
Dream Wife |
Sidney Sheldon |
Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon |
Comedy |
MGM |
Duck Dodgers |
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Looney Tunes |
Animation |
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Duck! Rabbit, Duck! |
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Looney Tunes |
Animation |
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East of Sumatra |
Budd Boetticher |
Jeff Chandler, Anthony Quinn, Marilyn Maxwell |
Adventure |
Universal |
Easy to Love |
Charles Walters |
Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin |
Musical |
MGM |
The Eddie Cantor Story |
Alfred E. Green |
Keefe Brasselle, Marilyn Erskine, Aline MacMahon |
Biography |
Warner Bros. |
Escape from Fort Bravo |
John Sturges |
William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe |
Western |
MGM |
Fair Wind to Java |
Joseph Kane |
Fred MacMurray, Vera Ralston, Victor McLaglen |
Adventure |
Republic Pictures |
The Farmer Takes a Wife |
Henry Levin |
Betty Grable, Dale Robertson |
Musical comedy |
Fox; remake of 1934 play, 1935 film |
Fast Company |
John Sturges |
Howard Keel, Polly Bergen |
Comedy |
MGM |
Fear and Desire |
Stanley Kubrick |
Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky |
Drama |
Kubrick's first film |
Fighter Attack |
Lesley Selander |
Sterling Hayden, Joy Page |
War |
Allied Artists |
Flight to Tangier |
Charles Marquis Warren |
Jack Palance, Joan Fontaine |
Action |
Paramount |
From Here to Eternity |
Fred Zinnemann |
Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine |
War, Drama |
based on James Jones novel; won 8 Academy Awards |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
Howard Hawks |
Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell |
Musical comedy |
20th Century Fox; based on stage musical |
The Girl Next Door |
Richard Sale |
Dan Dailey, June Haver |
Musical |
20th Century Fox; Haver's final film |
The Girl Who Had Everything |
Richard Thorpe |
Elizabeth Taylor, Fernando Lamas, William Powell |
Drama |
MGM |
The Girls of Pleasure Island |
F. Hugh Herbert |
Don Taylor, Leo Genn |
Comedy |
Paramount |
Give a Girl a Break |
Stanley Donen |
Debbie Reynolds, Marge Champion, Gower Champion |
Musical comedy |
MGM |
The Glass Wall |
Maxwell Shane |
Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame |
Drama |
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The Glass Web |
Jack Arnold |
Edward G. Robinson, Kathleen Hughes |
Suspense |
Universal |
Glen or Glenda |
Ed Wood |
Dolores Fuller |
Drama |
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The Golden Blade |
Nathan Juran |
Rock Hudson, Piper Laurie, Gene Evans |
Adventure |
Columbia |
The Great Sioux Uprising |
Lloyd Bacon |
Jeff Chandler, Faith Domergue, Lyle Bettger |
Western |
RKO |
Gun Belt |
Ray Nazarro |
Tab Hunter, Helen Westcott |
Western |
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Gun Fury |
Raoul Walsh |
Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, Philip Carey |
Western |
Universal |
H-K
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
The Hitch-Hiker |
Ida Lupino |
Edmond O'Brien, William Talman, Frank Lovejoy |
Film noir |
RKO |
Hondo |
John Farrow |
John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, James Arness |
Western |
Warner Bros. |
Houdini |
George Marshall |
Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh |
Biographical |
story of Harry Houdini |
House of Wax |
André de Toth |
Vincent Price, Carolyn Jones, Phyllis Kirk |
Horror, 3-D |
Warner Bros. |
How to Marry a Millionaire |
Jean Negulesco |
Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Cameron Mitchell, William Powell |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
I Confess |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter |
Drama |
Warner Bros. |
The I Don't Care Girl |
Lloyd Bacon |
Mitzi Gaynor, Oscar Levant |
Biography |
story of Eva Tanguay |
I Love Lucy |
Edward Sedgwick |
Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz |
Comedy |
feature-length version of TV series |
I Love Melvin |
Don Weis |
Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor |
Comedy |
MGM |
I, the Jury |
Harry Essex |
Biff Elliot, Peggie Castle |
Drama |
based on book by Mickey Spillane; remade in 1982 |
Inferno |
Roy Ward Baker |
Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming |
Thriller, 3-D |
20th Century Fox |
Invaders from Mars |
William Cameron Menzies |
Helena Carter, Leif Erickson |
Science fiction |
20th Century Fox |
Island in the Sky |
William Wellman |
John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, James Arness |
Drama |
Warner Bros. |
It Came from Outer Space |
Jack Arnold |
Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush |
Sci-fi, 3-D |
Universal |
Jennifer |
Joel Newton |
Ida Lupino, Howard Duff |
Thriller |
Monogram |
Jeopardy |
John Sturges |
Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker |
Thriller |
MGM |
Johann Mouse |
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Animation |
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Julius Caesar |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr, Louis Calhern, Edmond O'Brien |
Drama |
based on William Shakespeare play; 5 Oscar nominations |
Jungle Drums of Africa |
Fred C. Brannon |
Phyllis Coates |
Adventure |
12-part serial |
Kansas Pacific |
Ray Nazarro |
Sterling Hayden |
Western |
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King of the Khyber Rifles |
Henry King |
Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie |
Historical |
20th Century Fox |
Kiss Me, Kate |
George Sidney |
Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller |
Musical |
MGM; based on 1948 stage musical |
Knights of the Round Table |
Richard Thorpe |
Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer |
Adventure |
MGM; 2 Oscar nominations |
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Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
The Last Posse |
Alfred L. Werker |
Broderick Crawford, Wanda Hendrix, John Derek |
Western |
Columbia |
Latin Lovers |
Mervyn LeRoy |
Lana Turner, Ricardo Montalbán, John Lund |
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MGM |
Law and Order |
Nathan Juran |
Ronald Reagan, Dorothy Malone |
Western |
Universal |
The Lawless Breed |
Raoul Walsh |
Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Hugh O'Brian |
Western |
Universal |
Let's All Go to the Lobby |
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Animation |
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Let's Do It Again |
Alexander Hall |
Jane Wyman, Ray Milland, Aldo Ray |
Musical comedy |
Columbia; musical adaptation of The Awful Truth |
Life with Tom |
Hanna-Barbera |
Tom and Jerry |
Animated |
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Lili |
Charles Walters |
Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor |
Musical |
MGM; 5 Oscar nominations |
A Lion Is in the Streets |
Raoul Walsh |
James Cagney, Barbara Hale |
Drama |
Warner Bros. |
Little Boy Lost |
George Seaton |
Bing Crosby, Claude Dauphin |
Drama |
Paramount |
Little Fugitive |
3 directors |
Richie Andrusco |
Drama |
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The Living Desert |
James Algar |
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Documentary |
Oscar for Best Documentary |
The Lost Planet |
Spencer Bennet |
Judd Holdren |
Science fiction |
Columbia |
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation |
Charles Lamont |
Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride |
Comedy |
5th of a series |
The Magnetic Monster |
Curt Siodmak |
Richard Carlson, King Donovan |
Science fiction |
United Artists |
Man in the Attic |
Hugo Fregonese |
Jack Palance, Constance Smith |
Drama |
20th Century Fox |
Man in the Dark |
Lew Landers |
Edmond O'Brien, Audrey Totter |
Thriller |
Remake of 1936 film |
Man on a Tightrope |
Elia Kazan |
Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame |
Thriller |
20th Century Fox |
Marry Me Again |
Frank Tashlin |
Robert Cummings, Marie Wilson |
Comedy |
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Martin Luther |
Irving Pichel |
Niall MacGinnis, Pierre Lefevre |
Biography |
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Meet Me at the Fair |
Douglas Sirk |
Dan Dailey, Diana Lynn, Hugh O'Brien |
Drama |
Universal |
Mesa of Lost Women |
Ron Ormond, Herb Tevis |
Jackie Coogan, Richard Travis |
Science fiction |
Howco |
Miss Sadie Thompson |
Curtis Bernhardt |
Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray |
Musical |
Columbia; remake of 1928 and 1932 films |
Mission Over Korea |
Fred F. Sears |
John Derek, Audrey Totter |
War |
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The Missing Mouse |
Hanna-Barbera |
Tom and Jerry |
Animated |
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The Mississippi Gambler |
Rudolph Maté |
Tyrone Power, Piper Laurie, Julie Adams |
Adventure |
Universal |
Mogambo |
John Ford |
Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly |
Adventure |
MGM; 2 Oscar nominations; Golden Globe for Kelly |
Money from Home |
George Marshall |
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis |
Comedy |
10th Martin and Lewis film |
The Moon Is Blue |
Otto Preminger |
William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara |
Romantic comedy |
United Artists |
The Moonlighter |
Roy Rowland |
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Ward Bond |
Western |
Warner Bros. |
Mouse for Sale |
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Animation |
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The Naked Spur |
Anthony Mann |
James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan |
Western |
MGM |
The Neanderthal Man |
Ewald Andre Dupont |
Robert Shayne, Beverly Garland |
Science fiction |
United Artists |
Neapolitan Mouse |
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The Nebraskan |
Fred F. Sears |
Philip Carey, Lee Van Cleef |
Western, 3-D |
Columbia |
Never Let Me Go |
Delmer Daves |
Clark Gable, Gene Tierney |
Adventure |
MGM |
Never Wave at a WAC |
Norman Z. McLeod |
Rosalind Russell, Paul Douglas |
Comedy |
RKO |
Niagara |
Henry Hathaway |
Marilyn Monroe, Jean Peters, Joseph Cotten |
Suspense |
20th Century Fox |
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Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
One Girl's Confession |
Hugo Haas |
Cleo Moore, Glenn Langan |
Drama |
RKO |
Pardon My Backfire |
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The Three Stooges |
Comedy |
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Personal Affair |
Anthony Pelissier |
Gene Tierney, Glynis Johns |
Drama |
United Artists |
Peter Pan |
Clyde Geronimi |
voices of Hans Conried, Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont |
Animated |
Disney; based on J. M. Barrie story |
Pickup on South Street |
Samuel Fuller |
Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter |
Thriller |
20th Century Fox |
Plunder of the Sun |
John Farrow |
Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Francis L. Sullivan |
Adventure |
Warner Bros. |
Pony Express |
Jerry Hopper |
Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Forrest Tucker |
Western |
Paramount |
The President's Lady |
Henry Levin |
Susan Hayward, Charlton Heston, John McIntire |
Biography |
story of Andrew Jackson |
Prince of Pirates |
Sidney Salkow |
John Derek, Barbara Rush |
Adventure |
Columbia |
Project Moonbase |
Richard Talmadge |
Ross Ford |
Science-fiction |
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Pup on a Picnic |
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Tom and Jerry |
Animation |
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Puppy Tale |
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Tom and Jerry |
Animation |
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The Redhead from Wyoming |
Lee Sholem |
Maureen O'Hara, Alex Nicol, Dennis Weaver |
Western |
Universal |
Remains to Be Seen |
Don Weis |
June Allyson, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury |
Comedy |
MGM |
Return to Paradise |
Mark Robson |
Gary Cooper, Barry Jones, Roberta Haynes |
Adventure |
United Artists |
Ride, Vaquero! |
John Farrow |
Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Anthony Quinn |
Western |
MGM |
Roar of the Crowd |
William Beaudine |
Howard Duff, Helene Stanley |
Sports drama |
Monogram |
Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue |
Harold French |
Richard Todd |
Adventure |
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The Robe |
Henry Koster |
Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Richard Boone |
Drama |
20th Century Fox; 5 Oscar nominations, won 2 |
Robot Monster |
Phil Tucker |
George Nader, Selena Royle |
Science fiction |
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Roman Holiday |
William Wyler |
Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck |
Romantic comedy |
Oscars for Hepburn, screenplay, costumes; 10 nominations |
Sailor of the King |
Roy Boulting |
Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie |
War |
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Salome |
William Dieterle |
Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Judith Anderson, Charles Laughton |
Drama |
Columbia |
Scared Stiff |
George Marshall |
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizabeth Scott, Carmen Miranda |
Comedy |
Paramount; 8th Martin and Lewis film |
Sea Devils |
Raoul Walsh |
Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, Maxwell Reed |
Adventure |
RKO |
The Seafarers |
Stanley Kubrick |
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30-minute short |
Sea of Lost Ships |
Joseph Kane |
John Derek, Wanda Hendrix |
Drama |
Republic |
Second Chance |
Rudolph Mate |
Robert Mitchum, Jack Palance, Linda Darnell |
Thriller |
RKO |
Seminole |
Budd Boetticher |
Rock Hudson, Anthony Quinn, Barbara Hale |
Western |
Universal |
Serpent of the Nile |
William Castle |
Rhonda Fleming, Raymond Burr, William Lundigan |
Adventure |
Columbia |
Shane |
George Stevens |
Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur, Brandon De Wilde, Jack Palance, Ben Johnson |
Western |
Paramount; 6 Oscar nominations |
She's Back on Broadway |
Gordon Douglas |
Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson |
Musical |
Warner Bros. |
The Simple Things |
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Mickey Mouse |
Animation |
7 minutes |
Siren of Bagdad |
Richard Quine |
Paul Henreid, Patricia Medina |
Adventure |
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Small Town Girl |
László Kardos |
Jane Powell, Farley Granger, Ann Miller |
Musical |
MGM |
So Big! |
Robert Wise |
Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Steve Forrest, Nancy Olson, Martha Hyer |
Drama |
Warner Bros.; based on Edna Ferber novel |
So This Is Love |
Gordon Douglas |
Kathryn Grayson, Merv Griffin |
Musical |
Warner Bros. |
South of Algiers |
Jack Lee |
Van Heflin, Wanda Hendrix |
Drama |
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South Sea Woman |
Arthur Lubin |
Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Chuck Connors |
Adventure |
Warner Bros. |
Southern Fried Rabbit |
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Bugs Bunny |
Animation |
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Spaceways |
Terence Fisher |
Howard Duff, Eva Bartók |
Science fiction |
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Split Second |
Dick Powell |
Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling |
Thriller |
RKO |
Spooks! |
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The Three Stooges |
Comedy short |
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Stalag 17 |
Billy Wilder |
William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Harvey Lembeck, Robert Strauss, Peter Graves |
P.O.W. |
Paramount; Academy Award for Holden |
The Steel Lady |
Ewald André Dupont |
Rod Cameron, Tab Hunter, John Dehner |
Drama |
United Artists |
The Story of Three Loves |
Vincente Minnelli |
Pier Angeli, Kirk Douglas, Leslie Caron, Ethel Barrymore |
Romance |
MGM |
The Sun Shines Bright |
John Ford |
Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, Stepin Fetchit |
Comedy |
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The Sword and the Rose |
Ken Annakin |
Glynis Johns, Richard Todd, James Robertson Justice |
Adventure |
Disney |
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Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
Take Me to Town |
Douglas Sirk |
Sterling Hayden, Ann Sheridan |
Comedy western |
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Take the High Ground! |
Richard Brooks |
Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Russ Tamblyn |
War |
MGM |
Tangier Incident |
Lew Landers |
George Brent, Mari Aldon |
Thriller |
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The Tell-Tale Heart |
Ted Parmelee |
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Animation |
Based on Poe story |
Terminal Station |
Vittorio De Sica |
Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift |
Drama |
Columbia |
Terror Street |
Montgomery Tully |
Dan Duryea, Elsie Albiin |
Crime |
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That Man from Tangier |
Luis María Delgado, Robert Elwyn |
Roland Young, Nancy Coleman |
Drama |
United Artists |
Those Redheads from Seattle |
Lewis R. Foster |
Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry |
Drama |
Paramount |
Three Sailors and a Girl |
Roy Del Ruth |
Jane Powell, Gordon MacRae |
Musical |
Warner Bros. |
Thunder Bay |
Anthony Mann |
James Stewart, Dan Duryea, Joanne Dru |
Drama |
Universal |
Thunder Over the Plains |
André de Toth |
Randolph Scott, Lex Barker, Phyllis Kirk |
Western |
Warner Bros. |
Titanic |
Jean Negulesco |
Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner |
Biography |
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Animated short |
Disney educational film |
Torch Song |
Charles Walters |
Joan Crawford, Michael Wilding, Gig Young |
Drama |
MGM |
Treasure of the Golden Condor |
Delmer Daves |
Cornel Wilde, Constance Smith, Finlay Currie |
Adventure |
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Trouble Along the Way |
Michael Curtiz |
John Wayne, Donna Reed |
Comedy |
Warner Bros. |
Tumbleweed |
Nathan Juran |
Audie Murphy, Lori Nelson |
Western |
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The Twonky |
Arch Oboler |
Hans Conreid, Gloria Blondell |
Comedy |
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The Veils of Bagdad |
George Sherman |
Victor Mature, Mari Blanchard |
Action drama |
Universal |
Vicki |
Harry Horner |
Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Richard Boone |
Crime drama |
I Wake Up Screaming remake |
Walking My Baby Back Home |
Lloyd Bacon |
Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy Hackett |
Musical |
Universal |
War Arrow |
George Sherman |
Jeff Chandler, Maureen O'Hara, John McIntire |
Western |
Universal |
War Paint |
Lesley Selander |
Robert Stack, Joan Taylor |
Western |
United Artists |
The War of the Worlds |
Byron Haskin |
Gene Barry, Ann Robinson |
Science fiction |
Based on H.G. Wells novel |
White Lightning |
Edward Bernds |
Stanley Clements, Barbara Bestar, Steve Brodie |
Sports drama |
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White Witch Doctor |
Henry Hathaway |
Robert Mitchum, Susan Hayward |
Adventure |
20th Century Fox |
Wicked Woman |
Russell Rouse |
Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan |
Drama |
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The Wild One |
Laszlo Benedek |
Marlon Brando, Lee Marvin |
Drama |
Columbia |
Working for Peanuts |
Jack Hannah |
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Animated |
Chip and Dale cartoon |
Young Bess |
George Sidney |
Jean Simmons, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton |
Biography |
story of Elizabeth I |
See also
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