Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
3 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 Born (1954)
- 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 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, 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, 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, The (1954)- 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, 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.
Brigadoon (1954)- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse - Overlooked Gene Kelly musical, with Kelly discovering a magical Scottish village.
Broken Lance (1954)- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters… - King Lear loosely transposed as a gripping Western melodrama with proud yet stubborn patriarch Spencer Tracy at odds with his ungrateful sons over…
Caine Mutiny, The (1954)- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Humphrey Bogart - Solid action with unstable Ship's Captain Humphrey Bogart contending with mutinies and typhoons.
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