Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Ring Of Fear (1954)
- Dir. James Edward Grant
Feat. Clyde Beatty, Mickey Spillane, Pat O'Brien…
- Campy thriller with lion tamer Clyde Beatty and crime writer Mickey Spillane, appearing as themselves, teaming up to track a killer obsessed with a…
Riot In Cell Block 11 (1954)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen…
- No–nonsense prison movie portrays simmering frustrations from both sides of the bars that develop into chaos. Shot on location using inmates as…
River of No Return (1954)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum
- A Western adventure set aboard a river raft in which the frayed temperaments of Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum endure the perils of raging water…
Robinson Crusoe (1954)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Dan O'Herlihy
- Daniel Defoe's classic novel of a shipwreck's sole survivor. Luis Bunuel directs with a few surrealist flourishes.
Romeo and Juliet (1954)
- Dir. Renato Castellani
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Mervyn Jones…
- An Italian co–production, this version benefits from magical locations in Verona and Venice and the sumptuous Renaissance–influenced eye…
Sabrina (1954)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden
- Cinderella–ish comic yarn with a dream cast and director. Audrey Hepburn plays a humble chauffeur's daughter who wins the affections of noble…
Salt of the Earth (1954)
- Dir. Herbert J. Biberman
Feat. Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer
- An incendiary tale of racial prejudice, big business greed and feminist uprising that pushed plenty of buttons in the fifties, making it first of its…
Samurai Trilogy, The (Musashi Miyamoto, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, Duel at Ganryu Island) (1954-1956)
- Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki
Feat. Toshiro Mifune
- Sweeping saga of a legendary 17th century samurai Musashi Miyamoto, that made an icon of actor Toshiro Mifune. Played out against the turmoil of a…
Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff) (1954)
- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyoko Kagawa…
- One of Mizoguchi's great classics, based on an 11th century Japanese folktale elaborated into a sprawling vision of a cruel, mysterious cosmos, where…
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards…
- Rollicking musical set in backwoods Oregon, with brothers all looking for brides–to–be.