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Subgenre Sampler
Life at Stake, A (1954)- Dir. Paul Guilfoyle
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglas Dumbrille… - Minor noir elevated by the presence of Lansbury as a seductress who's business proposition to a struggling architect may not be strictly financial.
Lifeboat (1954)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix - Enterprising thriller staged entirely within the confines of a lifeboat. Its simplistic anti–Nazi politic is perhaps redeemed by Tallulah…
Living It Up (1954)- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh… - One of the funnier Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedies of the 17 they made together. Jerry Lewis plays a stationmaster from provincial New Mexico…
Mad Magician, The (1954)- Dir. John Brahm
Feat. Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor - This follow–up to HOUSE OF WAX is another early "3D" Vincent Price horror with a melodramatic plot involving an inventive, ambitious 19th…
Maggie, The (High and Dry) (1954)- Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie - Ealing comedy about the argumentative crew of an aged cargo boat, captained by a wily Scottish man who clashes with a wealthy American industrialist.
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman - Douglas Sirk's famously tumultuous melodrama, starring Rock Hudson in his first leading role as a guilt–ridden playboy indirectly responsible…
Monster From the Ocean Floor (1954)- Dir. Wyott Ordung
- Ultra–cheap Corman production from the writer of 'Robot Monster' concerns a holidaying couple in Mexico who stumble across the monstrous (very…
Naked Jungle (1954)- Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer… - Charlton Heston battles the Marabunta soldier ants that threaten to take over his South American jungle plantation. Eleanor Parker provides some…
Night People (1954)- Dir. Nunnally Johnson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Bjork… - Talky thriller with Gregory Peck as a Colonel trying to negotiate the release of a young G.I. held in East Germany. Plenty of political chicanery and…
On the Waterfront (1954)- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb… - Brooding tour–de–force with Marlon Brando in his prime as the square–jawed misfit entangled in corrupt union politics. Winner of 8…
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