Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Royal 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 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…
Sirocco (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, 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.