Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Scared Stiff (1952)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin
- Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin make a ‘spooktacle’ of themselves in this version of Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard’s Broadway hit.
Singin' in the Rain (Singing in the Rain) (1952)
- Dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Feat. Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds…
- The quintessential Hollywood musical happens to be about the movie biz. Its blend of vivacious style and humour, catchy numbers and dazzling…
Sniper, The (1952)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr…
- Film noir shot on location in San Francisco, with Arthur Franz (THE CAINE MUTINY) playing a disturbed professional driver who harbours misogynistic…
Snows of Kilimanjaro, The (1952)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward
- One of the more convincing attempts to adapt Ernest Hemingway for the screen, this follows the deathbed reverie of an American writer (Peck) from his…
Sound Barrier, The (1952)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick…
- Ralph Richardson excels as an aircraft manufacturer aiming to break the titular barrier with a newly developed jet, but exacting a bitter cost on his…
Stalag 17 (1952)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger…
- Sophisticated WW2 film in which comedy and suspense make uneasy but fascinating bedfellows. William Holden leads imprisoned American G.Is who plan…
Summer with Monika (1952)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Harriet Andersson
- Early Bergman turns his lens on a pair of working class, teenage lovers. At first this rebellious holiday boat ride comes across as dreamy escapism…