Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Man in the White Suit (1951)
- Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
- Lab–worker Alec Guinness invents a fabric that never wears out or gets dirty, only to have it suppressed by industry and unions alike. More…
Marilyn Monroe Collection (Bus Stop, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, Let's Make it Legal, Monkey Business, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, There's No Business Like Show Business) (1951-1959)
- Dir. Billy Wilder, Joshua Logan, Otto Preminger
Feat. Marilyn Monroe
- Eight Marilyn classics in a specially–priced box set.
No Highway in the Sky (1951)
- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns…
- Early disaster pic has Stewart as an aeronautical engineer convinced that a new model of airplane is doomed to disaster due to metal fatigue, and…
Olivia (1951)
- Dir. Jacqueline Audry
Feat. Simone Simon, Edwige Feuillere
- One of the first French films to portray lesbian relationships, Olivia is set in a girls' school in the late 1900s, where a newly arrived British…
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond…
- Grimly rewarding noir, with real–life tough guy Robert Ryan in one of his best roles.
As a cop helping with a protracted rural manhunt, he…
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
- Dir. Roy Del Ruth
Feat. Doris Day, Gordon MacRae
- Winning musical with Doris Day trading baseball obsession for the courtship of a strapping Gordon MacRae. Folksy tunes are blended with carefree…
On The Riviera (1951)
- Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet…
- Talented Broadway veteran Danny Kaye stars in this musical comedy, playing an American entertainer who develops a skit impersonating a wealthy…
Outcast of the Islands (1951)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley…
- Sturdy British adventure melodrama from the director of THE THIRD MAN and FALLEN IDOL based on Joseph Conrad's 1896 novel. A riveting Trevor Howard…
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
- Dir. Albert Lewin
Feat. Ava Gardner, James Mason, Nigel Patrick…
- Ava Gardner stars as the ravishing siren of a small Spanish town who has never fallen for anyone until the arrival of the mysterious James Mason, the…
People Will Talk (1951)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn
- Enjoyable and sophisticated allegory, disguised as a standard Hollywood romantic comedy, in which a humanitarian doctor (Grant) must contend with the…