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Subgenre Sampler

 
We're No AngelsWe're No Angels (1955)
Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov…
Moderately interesting Hollywood comedy concerns three convicts (Bogart, Ray and Ustinov) who escape from Devils Island and have to transform into…
3 Coins in the Fountain3 Coins in the Fountain (Three Coins in the Fountain) (1954)
Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters…
Likeable, but modest classic in which three women throw coins into the Fountain of Trevi in Rome, to try their romantic luck. Great tourist locales…
Belles of St. Trinian's, TheBelles of St. Trinian's, The (1954) Recommended
Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole…
Classic pre–CARRY ON hi–jinks set in a seedy girl's school and based on Ronald Searle's cartoon series. Alastair Sim (in drag) plays…
Doctor in the HouseDoctor in the House (1954) Recommended
Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
First and best of a series in which Doctors and Nurses exchange fleeting glances and banter for comic effect while training at a med school. Dirk…
Dov'e La Liberta...?Dov'e La Liberta...? (Where Is Freedom?) (1954)
Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Toto, Vera Molnar, Nita Dover
Legendary Italian comic Toto plays a barber who cannot abide the hypocritical society he is thrust into after spending two decades in prison, and…
Father Knows Best (TV Series)Father Knows Best (TV Series) (1954-1960)
Dir. Peter Tewksbury
Feat. Sarah Selby, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray
Cloying sitcom bathed in the idealised glow of 50's apple–pie America, centred on a suburban family and their typically patriarchal upbringing.…
Knock on WoodKnock on Wood (1954)
Dir. Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Feat. Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher…
Danny Kaye plays a ventriloquist who is comically unlucky in love due to his jealous dummy, who manages to sabotage every relationship he has right…
Lesson in Love, ALesson in Love, A (1954)
Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Harriet Andersson…
Eva Dahlbeck and Gunnar Bjornstrand play a couple who have recently separated, following the doctor husband's affair with a patient. When they…
Living It UpLiving It Up (1954)
Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh…
One of the funnier Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedies of the 17 they made together. Jerry Lewis plays a stationmaster from provincial New Mexico…
Long, Long Trailer, The (1954)
Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
Gallivanting in an enormous RV across America, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz journey to disaster in this winning slapstick comedy. The classic TV…

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