Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot) (1953)
- Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud - Jacques Tati fine–tunes the virtues of JOUR DE FETE to create his most eponymous character. The first of four Hulot features follows the…
Naked Spur, The (1953)- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan… - Cited as one of the Great Westerns; a tough, hard little film about self–styled bounty hunter Stewart trying to capture Ryan, who stirs tension…
Norman Wisdom Collection, The (Trouble in Store, Up in the World, On the Beat.) (1953-1962)- Feat. Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford
- Collection of three comedies – Trouble in Store, Up in the World and On the Beat – from admired British slapstick comedian Norman Wisdom,…
Otto Preminger Collection, The (The Moon is Blue, Saint Joan, Advise and Consent, Anatomy of a Filmmaker) (1953-1991)- Dir. Otto Preminger
- Attractively–packaged Preminger trifecta, with the added bonus ANATOMY OF A FILMMAKER, a thorough two–hour documentary on the…
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