Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Roman Holiday (1953)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck
- Audrey Hepburn's Oscar–winning and breakthrough performance is her princess who abandons regal responsibilities while abroad to run off with…
Salome (1953)
- Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton…
- Biblical epic loaded with Hollywood opulence and famed for its erotic dance sequence by Rita Hayworth. The star plays Jewish Princess Salome who…
Samuel Fuller Boxset (Pickup on South Street, Forty Guns, Shock Corridor, The Naked Kiss) (1953-1964)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
- Samuel Fuller’s quartet of sizzling B–picture masterpieces.
Sea Devils (1953)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, Bryan Forbes…
- Old–fashioned smuggling yarn, with Rock Hudson playing a Channel Islands contrabandist who gets involved in the French Revolution. Minor sea…
Seminole (1953)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn…
- Superlative Western set against the backdrop of 1835 Florida, where Rock Hudson plays a West Pointer Lieutenant who, on the insistence of Richard…
Shane (1953)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Alan Ladd, Jack Palance, Emile Meyer
- Former gunfighter Alan Ladd comes to the defence of homesteaders menaced by Jack Palance (satanically clad all in black). Classic Western is splendid…
Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, The (1953)
- Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie…
- Spirited biopic of the careers of W.S. Gilbert, a barrister turned–comic–writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer (converted…
Story of Three Loves, The (1953)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
Feat. Pier Angeli, Ethel Barrymore, Leslie Caron…
- Romantic anthology film telling three separate stories in flashbacks experienced by three characters on board the same ocean liner.
"The Jealous…
They Who Dare (1953)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
- Bonus film with SLEEPING TIGER is a Dirk Bogarde WWII actioner that details a commando raid on German–controlled Aegean air fields.
Thunder Bay (1953)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland…
- Stewart and Mann swap horses for oil–rigs – though its still very much a western – in this brawny adventure set in the Gulf of…