Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Three Stooges - Volume 2 (1952-1956)
- Feat. The Three Stooges
- Five shorts: Squareheads of the Round Table (1948), Gents in a Jam (1952), Tricky Dicks (1953); Rumpus in the Harem, Hot Stuff (1956, recycled of…
Titfield Thunderbolt, The (1952)
- Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne…
- Gorgeously shot comedy with Stan Holloway leading the way in saving his local branch railway from being cut by British Rail. At the more whimsical…
Venetian Bird (Assassin) (1952)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Richard Todd, Eva Bartok, John Gregson…
- Complex thriller with a detective sent to Venice by an insurance company finds himself on the run after being framed for a series of murders.…
Viva Zapata! (1952)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn
- Stirring treatment of the life of the Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) who rose from peasanthood to presidency in the…
We're Not Married (1952)
- Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen…
- Overlooked Marilyn Monroe starrer is a multi–episode comedy in which six married couples find out their weddings weren't legitimate.
What Price Glory? (1952)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. James Cagney, Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet
- Soldiers James Cagney and Dan Dailey take time out from the trenches of WWI for some zesty romantic rivalry over local attraction Corrinne Calvet.
Ace in the Hole (The Big Carnival) (1951)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Porter Hall
- Cast in a hole until recently, this scathing editorial on media sensationalism and the human spectacle stars Kirk Douglas (never fiercer) as a…
African Queen, The (1951)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn
- A magnificent combination of comedy, character and adventure with odd companions Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn trying to survive each other…
An American in Paris (1951)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Gene Kelly
- Ebullient, multi–styled musical with Gene Kelly dancing his socks off. Terrific George Gershwin score.
Appointment with Venus (1951)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. David Niven, Glynis Johns, Kenneth More
- Bizarre war drama based on a true story about a small recently occupied British isle with a very important prize cow living on it that the War Office…