Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3628 Films to Buy & Rent
All I Desire (1953)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck
- Template Sirk melodrama features Barbara Stanwyck as an ambitious stage actress who abandons her husband and family for Broadway, only to return when…
Audrey Hepburn Boxset (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Funny Face, Paris When It Sizzles, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, War and Peace) (1953-1964)
- Feat. Audrey Hepburn
- Striking 6–disc 'Ruby Collection' box set including six classic films starring the unforgettable Audrey Hepburn, also includes a series of…
Band Wagon, The (1953)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Cyd Charisse
- In the top echelon of screen–musicals, this follows the fortunes of toe–tapping movie actor Fred Astaire, revue style, as he attempts a…
Beat the Devil (1953)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre…
- Spoofing their own suspense movies (such as CASABLANCA and MALTESE FALCON), Humphrey Bogart and dir. Huston produced this comic oddity with the help…
Beggar's Opera, The (1953)
- Dir. Peter Brook
Feat. Laurence Olivier
- Initially a commercial failure, this energetic romp through John Gay's 18th century ribald opera has since been critically acclaimed. In his first…
Big Heat, The (1953)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin, Gloria Grahame
- Pugnacious cop Glenn Ford turns up the heat on civic corruption in this iconic film–noir from dir. Lang's 50s period. When a detective's…
Bigamist, The (1953)
- Dir. Ida Lupino
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino…
- A San Francisco adoption agency, investigating salesman Edmond O'Brien and wife Joan Fontaine, discover he has a second life, and wife, in LA.…
British War DVD Collection, The (Ice Cold in Alex, The Cruel Sea, The Colditz Story, The Dambusters) (1953-1958)
- Four classic British b&w war films beautifully remastered.
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
- Dir. David Butler
Feat. Doris Day, Gordon MacRae
- Quaint sequel to ON MOONLIGHT BAY finds Gordon MacRae returning from WWI where fiancée Doris Day waits impatiently to begin married life together.…
Caddy, The (1953)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin
- Golf comedy from the Jerry Lewis/Dean Martin stable. Lewis caddies, Martin sings ‘That’s Amore’.