Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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.
Kansas City Confidential (1952)- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, John Payne, Coleen Gray… - A grimly tough crime drama set in the Kansas City underworld. Payne plays an ex–con who is jailed for an unrelated crime, and on release…
Le Plaisir (House Of Pleasure) (1952)- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon… - Three tales by Guy de Maupassant go into this visually elegant treatise on the changing moods of love, youth and memory. The most successful…
Lili (1952)- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer - Fairytale–like story of Leslie Caron's amorous adventures in a carnival is swimming in charm, whimsical songs and 'circus–type'…
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