Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Stooge, The (1951)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen
- Comedy set in the world of 1930's vaudeville, where an egotistical but struggling Broadway performer (Dean Martin) finds success when he hires a…
Strange Door, The (1951)
- Dir. Joseph Pevney
Feat. Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest
- Thriller based on the short story "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" by Robert Louis Stevenson, with Charles Laughton playing a sadistic man who…
Strangers On a Train (1951)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Robert Walker, Farley Granger
- The Master of Suspense justifies his mantle with this consummate thriller. He executes one glorious set piece after another as psycho Robert Walker…
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter…
- Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the savage brute who taunts his disturbed sister–in–law (Vivienne Leigh). Virtuoso…
Susana (The Devil and the Flesh) (1951)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Rosita Quintana
- A sexually devious reform girl seeks refuge in a decent working class family, only to cause upheaval with her devilish ways.
Early Bunuel…
Tales of Hoffmann, The (1951)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Moira Shearer, Pamela Brown, Sir Robert Helpmann…
- Boldly visual imagining of Offenbach's 1880 opera which takes three tales of magic and deception by E.T. Hoffmann and weaves them into a disquieting…
A Christmas Wish (The Great Rupert) (1950)
- Dir. Irving Pichel
Feat. Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake
- Holiday classic about a down and out family at Christmas who discover they have a squirrel guardian angel living in their rafters.
Alfred Hitchcock - The Signature Collection (Dial M for Murder, I Confess, Stage Fright, The Wrong Man.) (1950-1957)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Box set contains four 50's classics from The Master of Suspense.
All About Eve (1950)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders…
- Bette Davis is in her element as ageing Broadway star Margot Channing, under threat of the hidden menace of an ambitious young actress. A scathing…
American Geurrilla In The Phillipines (I Shall Return) (1950)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Tyrone Power, Micheline Presle
- War film from Fritz Lang following a group of American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after a motor torpedo boat is destroyed by Japanese…