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Subgenre Sampler

 
We're No AngelsWe're No Angels (1955)
Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov
Moderately interesting Hollywood comedy concerns three convicts (Bogart, Ray and Ustinov) who escape from Devils Island and have to transform into…
White FeatherWhite Feather (1955)
Dir. Robert D. Webb
Feat. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, John Lund
Superior liberal western, scripted by Delmer Dawes, concerns the surrender of the last Cheyenne warriors to the U.S. government. Though Wagner…
3 Coins in the Fountain3 Coins in the Fountain (Three Coins in the Fountain) (1954)
Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters
Likeable, but modest classic in which three women throw coins into the Fountain of Trevi in Rome, to try their romantic luck. Great tourist locales…
A Star Is BornA Star Is Born (1954) Recommended
Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Judy Garland, James Mason
All–time great musical melodrama, with actress Judy Garland's star eclipsing hubby James Mason's.
An Inspector CallsAn Inspector Calls (1954)
Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Alastair Sim, Jane Wenham
Alastair Sim, superb here as the titular inspector, bears down on a smug upper crust family whose closely–guarded secrets are exposed to…
Barefoot Contessa, TheBarefoot Contessa, The (1954)
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner
Humphrey Bogart plays a cynical film director who recalls the life of a Spanish beauty whom he helped make a Hollywood star. Hailed a 'trash…
Beachcomber, TheBeachcomber, The (1954)
Dir. Muriel Box
Feat. Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden
Entertaining and deeply silly romantic yarn with prim missionary Johns falling for slovenly Newton as they team up to fight a cholera outbreak on a…
Belles of St. Trinian's, TheBelles of St. Trinian's, The (1954) Recommended
Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole
Classic pre–CARRY ON hi–jinks set in a seedy girl's school and based on Ronald Searle's cartoon series. Alastair Sim (in drag) plays…
Bridges at Toko-Ri, TheBridges at Toko-Ri, The (1954)
Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. William Holden, Grace Kelly
Ace pilot William Holden is out to destroy the 'impossible' target in this excellent Korean War thriller.
BrigadoonBrigadoon (1954)
Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse
Overlooked Gene Kelly musical, with Kelly discovering a magical Scottish village.

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