Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Has Anyone Seen My Gal? (1952)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Charles Coburn, Lynn Bari, Piper Laurie…
- Sirk–for–hire musical comedy finds the iconic melodramatist at his most unidentifiable: Coburn stars as an elderly money bags with no…
High Noon (1952)
- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell…
- Retiring marshal Gary Cooper faces a crisis of conscience when he learns an old adversary wants revenge. A classic that derives its impact through…
Horizons West (1952)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Robert Ryan, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson
- Western with shades of film noir and gangster pic, set in post–civil war Texas, where two confederate soldier brothers return to their family…
Hunted (1952)
- Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh, Geoffrey Keen…
- Brit suspense trailing an orphan on the run from his foster parents wrath after an accident who is kidnapped by a wanted criminal who trys to prevent…
Ikiru (1952)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka
- A patient meditation on life and death about a sullen yet dutiful office clerk of 30 years whose terminal illness compels him to rediscover his…
Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Dame Edith Evans…
- Screen version of Oscar Wilde's brilliant comedy of manners starring a host of British stage thesps.
Invasion U.S.A. (1952)
- Dir. Alfred E. Green
Feat. Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O'Herlihy
- A crudely devised, but fascinating slice of early Cold War paranoia, this has the 'Land of the Free' being invaded by hordes of Russians, with…
Ivanhoe (1952)
- Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine…
- Boisterous Middle–Ages spectacular featuring brutal action scenes.
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
- Dir. Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
- Abbott and Costello romp through the fairytale passages of Jack and his Beanstalk. While their comedy doesn’t transpose so well, this is an amiable…
Jumping Jacks (1952)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin
- The comic duo of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin make an unlikely pair of paratroopers.