Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Pat and Mike (1952)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy
- Athlete Katharine Hepburn pursues track triumphs with the aid of coach Spencer Tracy. Hepburn–Tracy coupling runs like a well–oiled…
Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Bette Davis
- Fine acting, from Bette Davis among others, lifts story of aircrash survivors coming together.
Planter's Wife, The (Outpost in Malaya) (1952)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel…
- Claudette Colbert and Jack Hawkins star in this fiery actioner as plantation owners under siege from commie bandits. Colbert is a dab hand with a…
Prisoner of Zenda, The (1952)
- Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason…
- Second version of Anthony Hope's archetypal swashbuckler, sees King of Ruritania Stewart Granger deposed by his half–brother and…
Quiet Man, The (1952)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara
- Ex–boxer John Wayne retires to his Irish homeland in search of tranquillity and maybe the hand of Maureen O'Hara. This romantic comedy was a…
Radar Men from the Moon (1952)
- Dir. Fred C. Brannon
Feat. George Wallace, Roy Barcroft, Aline Towne…
- Cracking Republic serial has Commando Cody taking on the baddies – including future Lone Ranger Moore – armed with his trusty aluminum…
Rancho Notorious (1952)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer
- Lively and interesting Western about a vengeful gunman who search brings him to the ranch of sultry saloon mistress Marlene Dietrich.
Road To Bali (1952)
- Dir. Hal Walker
Feat. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour
- The only Technicolor Road picture they made, this time the comic and the crooner star as two song–and–dance men who set out to rescue a…
Scandal Sheet (1952)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek
- When the editor of a sensationalist newspaper commits an accidental murder, his own staff start to report on the case, and gradually inch closer to…
Scaramouche (1952)
- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Stewart Granger
- Stewart Granger is Sabatini's swashbuckling anti–hero who champions the French revolution armed with razor saber and a quiver of tomfoolery. A…