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Subgenre Sampler

 
Royal WeddingRoyal Wedding (1951)
Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford
Famous for its legendary tap–dance on the ceiling, this otherwise thinly–plotted musical (set against the marriage of Princess Elizabeth…
Show BoatShow Boat (1951)
Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel
Lavish technicolor adaptation of the 1920 Hammerstein stage musical in which an aspiring actor goes from working a Mississippi river–boat to…
SiroccoSirocco (1951)
Dir. Curtis Bernhardt
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Lee J. Cobb, Zero Mostel
Standard–issue thriller, with Bogie playing a gun–runner who tangles with the Syrian authorities, French occupiers and an underground…
Stooge, TheStooge, The (1951) Recommended
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, TheStrange 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 TrainStrangers On a Train (1951) Aro Favourite
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, AStreetcar Named Desire, A (1951) Aro Favourite
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…
SusanaSusana (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, TheTales of Hoffmann, The (1951) Recommended
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 WishA 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.

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