Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Egyptian, The (1954)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Edmund Purdom…
- Epic "CinemaScope" drama set in ancient Egypt where a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaoh's court where…
Elephant Walk (1954)
- Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch…
- Love–triangle melodrama set on Ceylon tea plantation is a tad overblown, with thunder stolen from the good cast by a climactic elephant…
End of the Affair, The (1954)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills
- Original screen adaptation of Graham Greeneās tale of unrequited wartime love, with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson entangled in a brief but illicit…
Far Country, The (1954)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Walter Brennan
- The Yukon Ranges provide the unforgiving backdrop to this prototypical Anthony Mann western, in which James Stewart must battle the elements and…
Fast and the Furious, The (1954)
- Dir. Edward Sampson, John Ireland
Feat. John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Bruno Ve Sota…
- Reputedly Roger Corman's first ever production, this low–budget noir follows the dueling relationship between a prison escaper (Ireland) and…
Father Knows Best (TV Series) (1954-1960)
- Dir. Peter Tewksbury
Feat. Sarah Selby, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray
- Cloying sitcom bathed in the idealised glow of 50's apple–pie America, centred on a suburban family and their typically patriarchal upbringing.…
Garden of Evil (1954)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark, Susan Hayward…
- A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches. In Cinemascope.
Generation, A (Pokolenie) (1954)
- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Roman Polanski
- Fast–moving account of the Polish Resistance during WWII, as a scrappy young recruit falls in love with his unit leader. Depicts the spirited,…
Glenn Miller Story, The (1954)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, June Allyson, Louis Armstrong…
- A creditable star–biography of the big–band leader and trombonist, which, verging on the overly sentimental, is saved by its reverance to…
Godzilla (Gojira) (1954)
- Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura
- The original Japanese version of GODZILLA, complete with the anti–nuclear subplot which was cut from the 1956 US version.
Concerns a…