Subgenre Sampler
: 25144 Films to Buy & Rent
Jail Bait (1954)
- Dir. Ed Wood Jnr.
Feat. Timothy Farrell, Lyle Talbot, Steve Reeves…
- Ed Wood gangster pic sees underworld types having plastic surgery to escape the law. Script is a model of logic by Wood's standards, but…
Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle Vol. 2 (1954)
- Dir. Kenneth Anger
- Features "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome" (1954), a depiction of an imaginative world of gods invoked and controlled by the untamed desires of…
Knock on Wood (1954)
- Dir. Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Feat. Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher…
- Danny Kaye plays a ventriloquist who is comically unlucky in love due to his jealous dummy, who manages to sabotage every relationship he has right…
Lassie (TV Series) (1954-1974)
- Feat. Jon Provost, Tommy Rettig
- A representative selection of episodes from the long–running US series depicting the adventures of a rather intelligent collie dog with a…
Les Diaboliques (1954)
- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse…
- Simone Signoret stars as one of two women who conspire to murder the man they share – a sadistic schoolmaster. Iconic French thriller with a…
Lesson in Love, A (1954)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Harriet Andersson…
- Eva Dahlbeck and Gunnar Bjornstrand play a couple who have recently separated, following the doctor husband's affair with a patient. When they…
Life at Stake, A (1954)
- Dir. Paul Guilfoyle
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglas Dumbrille…
- Minor noir elevated by the presence of Lansbury as a seductress who's business proposition to a struggling architect may not be strictly financial.
Lifeboat (1954)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix
- Enterprising thriller staged entirely within the confines of a lifeboat. Its simplistic anti–Nazi politic is perhaps redeemed by Tallulah…
Living It Up (1954)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh…
- One of the funnier Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedies of the 17 they made together. Jerry Lewis plays a stationmaster from provincial New Mexico…
Long, Long Trailer, The (1954)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
- Gallivanting in an enormous RV across America, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz journey to disaster in this winning slapstick comedy. The classic TV…