Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Seven Samurai, The (1954)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune - Kurosawa's classic 'Eastern Western' about a village who hire an elite band of warriors to fend off marauders. Compassionate storytelling with combat…
Sleeping Tiger (1954)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde - Suave street–crim Dirk Bogarde is sheltered by one of his victims, a psychiatrist who attempts to cure Bogarde's 'illness'. Shot with a baroque…
Sound of the Mountain (Yama No Oto) (1954)- Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Soh Yamamura - Dir. Naruse reprises the disintegrating marriage (and cast) of his earlier film, REPAST, in this profoundly affecting tale of a young woman (Hara)…
Student Prince, The (1954)- Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson… - Taken from the operetta by Sigmund Romberg, and the third filmed version of the tale of a young Prince breaking out into the real world by falling in…
Suddenly (1954)
- Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden - Frank Sinatra impresses in an unsympathetic role: a sneering, cynical war–veteran out to practice his marksmanship on the President of the…
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)- Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe… - Gaudy musical about Show Business. Stars Marilyn and some great Irving Berlin songs.
To Catch a Thief (1954)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Grace Kelly - Hitchcock takes a whimsical approach for this caper about a reformed cat burglar who sets about catching the thief that is imitating his old style.…
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Hands Off the Loot) (1954)- Dir. Jacques Becker
Feat. Jean Gabin, RenĂ© Dary, Jeanne Moreau - Laid–back though influential French noir chronicling a wealthy, retired racketeer (Gabin) who is pulled back into the life of crime when his…
Track of the Cat (1954)- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Tab Hunter… - Claustrophobic allegorical western finds a feuding family snowbound and under siege from a less than benevolent panther. Certainly something of a…
Twenty-Four Eyes (24 Eyes/Nijushi no hitomi) (1954)- Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
Feat. Hideko Takamine, Chishu Ryu - An elegiac triumph of nostalgia for youth and wartime humanism, this cherished landmark of Japanese cinema gracefully chronicles the 20–years…
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