Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Lion Is in the Streets, The (1953)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. James Cagney, Barbara Hale - Political parable based on Southern governor Huey Long stars James Cagney as the populist peddler–turned–politico who yields to…
Little Fugitive (1953)- Dir. Raymond Abrashkin
Feat. Richie Andrusco, Richard Brewster - A young boy runs away to Coney Island after fearing that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. An exquisitely naturalistic film with…
Madame De... (Earrings Of Madame De..., The) (1953)
- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Charles Boyer - Widely considered one of the dir.'s peak achievements, this gracefully and ironically traces a doomed menage–a–trois in 18th century…
Malta Story (1953)- Dir. Brian Desmond Hurst
Feat. Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel - A taut wee adventure set among the special forces of the British Air Force defending the island of Malta during WW2. Real–life locations and a…
Man from the Alamo, The (1953)- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Glenn Ford, Julie Adams, Chill Wills… - Glenn Ford stars in a sprawling but nuanced Western from the legendary Budd Boetticher that hurtles from the battle of the Alamo to a gripping wagon…
- Man Who Watched Trains Go By, The (1953)
- Dir. Harold French
Feat. Claude Rains - Dutch office clerk Claude Rains hurtles on the Paris Express when he stumbles across stolen loot and his boss winds up dead. Based on the Georges…
Million Pound Note, The (1953)- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Gregory Peck, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell… - A fairly neat adaptation of Mark Twain's satirical fable about a pair of rich brothers who bet over whether a man can live on a million pounds,…
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)- Dir. Curtis Bernhardt
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Jose Ferrer, Aldo Ray… - Rita Hayworth turned it on in this lavish musical with a hard edge of sex and sin in the South Seas, here playing a smokin’ dame stranded on a…
Mogambo (1953)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly - Clark Gable squeezes in wooing both Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly between bouts of elephant shooting in the African jungle.
Moon is Blue, The (1953)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. William Holden, Maggie McNamara, David Niven - Bright, bristling romantic comedy centered on the courtship of a blithe and carefree commercials actress (McNamara) by the smooth–as–silk…
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