Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Target Earth (1954)- Dir. Sherman Rose
Feat. Richard Denning, Virginia Grey, Kathleen Crowley… - Invading alien robots trap people in an eerie deserted city. For all the 50s cliches this is mostly on–target.
Them! (1954)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn - Mutated giant ants run amok after a nuclear test in the New Mexico desert. Atomic parable is a major studio '50s creature feature that benefits from…
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)- Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe… - Gaudy musical about Show Business. Stars Marilyn and some great Irving Berlin songs.
This Island Earth (1954)- Dir. Joseph Newman
Feat. Rex Reason, Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue - Seriously cool sci–fi adventure with startling production values enriching its B–movie spirit. Rex Reason plays a scientist unwittingly…
To Catch a Thief (1954)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Grace Kelly - Hitchcock takes a whimsical approach for this caper about a reformed cat burglar who sets about catching the thief that is imitating his old style.…
Tobor the Great (1954)- Dir. Lee Sholem
Feat. Charles Drake, Karin Booth, Franz Roehn… - Sentimental sci–fi curio examines the attachment between a young boy and a robot called Tobor. When dastardly communists kidnap the youngster…
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Hands Off the Loot) (1954)- Dir. Jacques Becker
Feat. Jean Gabin, RenĂ© Dary, Jeanne Moreau - Laid–back though influential French noir chronicling a wealthy, retired racketeer (Gabin) who is pulled back into the life of crime when his…
Track of the Cat (1954)- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Tab Hunter… - Claustrophobic allegorical western finds a feuding family snowbound and under siege from a less than benevolent panther. Certainly something of a…
Twenty-Four Eyes (24 Eyes/Nijushi no hitomi) (1954)- Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
Feat. Hideko Takamine, Chishu Ryu - An elegiac triumph of nostalgia for youth and wartime humanism, this cherished landmark of Japanese cinema gracefully chronicles the 20–years…
Ulysses (1954)- Dir. Mario Camerini
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano… - Kirk Douglas muscles his way home in this admittedly pretty, but vacant, adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. Anthony Quinn is gets all the best lines, but…
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