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As Young As You Feel (1951): Dir. Harmon Jones
Feat. Marilyn Monroe; A young Marilyn Monroe has a support role in this affable corporate satire about a printing employee who won’t sit still for retirement. Based on a…
Big Night, The (1951): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. John Jr. Barrymore, Preston Foster, Joan Lorring…; Tense melodrama has Barrymore traumatised by watching his father submit to a beating at the hands of a petty gangster. Setting out to avenge his…
Browning Version, The (1951): Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent; Sterling adaptation of Terrence Rattigan’s play features an unforgettable performance from Michael Redgrave as the cuckolded,…
Cry, The Beloved Country (1951): Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Joyce Carey, Canada Lee…; Deeply felt racial drama has Rev. Sidney Poitier encountering South African–style bigotry as he searches for his son in Johannesburg.
David and Bathsheba (1951): Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey…; The Hollywood romance as Biblical epic, with Gregory Peck as an adulterous King David who falls for the foxy Bathsheba (Hayward) – nevermind…
Desert Fox, The (1951): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Mason, Jessica Tandy, Sir Cedric Hardwicke…; James Mason gives a definitive performance as Nazi General Rommel (which he repeated for THE DESERT RATS), whose troubles proved overwhelming despite…
Detective Story (1951): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, Cathy O'Donnell…; Kirk Douglas is his grizzled, hard–bitten self as one of several detectives trying to get through the work day at a busy Brooklyn…
Five (1951): Dir. Arch Oboler
Feat. William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubeš, James Anderson…; Apocalyptic 50's sci–fi set in the aftermath of an atomic bomb disaster where five survivors (a pregnant woman, a philosopher, a black man, a…
Fixed Bayonets (1951): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea; Brassy Korean War flick with a diminished platoon struggling for survival, and Basehart as the soldier terrified of having leadership thrust upon…
Flight to Mars (1951): Dir. Lesley Selander
Feat. Cameron Mitchell, Marguerite Chapman, Virginia Huston…; Expedition adventure set on a Red Planet inhabited by an underground–dwelling but dying civilization that appear to be human.

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