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Ikiru (1952): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka; A patient meditation on life and death about a sullen yet dutiful office clerk of 30 years whose terminal illness compels him to rediscover his…
Importance of Being Earnest (1952): Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Dame Edith Evans…; Screen version of Oscar Wilde's brilliant comedy of manners starring a host of British stage thesps.
Invasion U.S.A. (1952): Dir. Alfred E. Green
Feat. Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O'Herlihy; A crudely devised, but fascinating slice of early Cold War paranoia, this has the 'Land of the Free' being invaded by hordes of Russians, with…
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952): Dir. Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello; Abbott and Costello romp through the fairytale passages of Jack and his Beanstalk. While their comedy doesn’t transpose so well, this is an amiable…
Kansas City Confidential (1952): Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, John Payne, Coleen Gray…; A grimly tough crime drama set in the Kansas City underworld. Payne plays an ex–con who is jailed for an unrelated crime, and on release…
Le Plaisir (House Of Pleasure) (1952): Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon…; Three tales by Guy de Maupassant go into this visually elegant treatise on the changing moods of love, youth and memory. The most successful…
Lusty Men, The (1952): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy; A nicely close–to–the–ground take on the life of the rodeo rider – and one of Wim Wenders' favourite films – this…
Mandy (1952): Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan; British drama about a girl who has been deaf and mute her whole life, and her family's attempts to help her with a unique education, which causes…
Manina la Fille Sans Voile (The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter; The Girl in the Bikini) (1952): Dir. Willy Rozier
Feat. Brigitte Bardot; An obscure, almost forgettable French frolic, save for the eye–catching debut of one Brigitte Bardot. Here, the future sex symbol plays a…
Miracle of Our Lady Fatima (1952): Dir. John Brahm
Feat. Gilbert Roland; Religious technicolor film based on the true story of three Portuguese children who reported seeing an apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1917.

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