Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Go for Broke! (1951)
- Dir. Robert Pirosh
Feat. Van Johnson, Warner Anderson, Don Haggerty
- The story of the 442nd Regiment, a team composed of second–generation Japanese–American soldiers fighting in Italy who were heavily…
Great Caruso, The (1951)
- Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Mario Lanza
- Entertaining biopic of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso with American protege Mario Lanza in the title role. His hokey performance and some…
Green Grow the Rushes (1951)
- Dir. Derek Twist
Feat. Richard Burton, Honor Blackman, Roger Livesey…
- Minor comedy, of the English variety, set in a brandy–soaked Kent village.
He Ran All The Way (1951)
- Dir. John Berry
Feat. John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
- Tense film noir features John Garfield as a bank robber on the run and Shelly Winters as the woman who takes him into her home. Garfield's final…
I Love Lucy (TV Series) (1951- 1961)
- Feat. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, William Frawley
- Seven selected episodes from the classic 50's sitcom that never dates. Episodes are 'The Diet', 'Be a Pal', 'The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub',…
Lady with the Lamp, The (1951)
- Dir. Herbert Wilcox
Feat. Dame Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Gladys Young…
- Well–wrought biopic charts the dramatic life of Florence Nightingale, finely played by Dame Neagle, and her pioneering nursing career.
Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951)
- Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Alec Guinness
- Clever, effervescent Ealing comedy stars Alec Guinness as a timid bank teller who organises an elaborate gold heist. The chase finale is magic.
Let's Make It Legal (1951)
- Dir. Richard Sale
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Marilyn Monroe
- Marilyn Monroe has an ornamental role in this light ‘divorcee’ comedy.
Limelight (1951)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Claire Bloom
- Charlie Chaplin's final film recreates in spirit his poverty–stricken London boyhood and escape into the vaudeville world.
With such…
Man From Planet X, The (1951)
- Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, William Schallert
- As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions. An…