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Subgenre Sampler
Calamity Jane (1953)
- Dir. David Butler
Feat. Doris Day, Howard Keel - Big, rousing musical western, featuring Doris Day as the tomboy heroine, who falls for easygoing Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel).
Captain's Paradise (1953)- Dir. Anthony Kimmins
Feat. Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, Celia Johnson - Nautical romp with captain Alec Guinness paying the price of having a wife in two ports – sultry Yvonne De Carlo and a genial Celia Johnson.
Final Test, The (1953)- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph… - Gentle comedy of values has a famed cricketer making his way to the middle for one last innings. Meanwhile is son is torn between seeing dad bat one…
Genevieve (1953)- Dir. Henry Cornelius
Feat. John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More… - The London to Brighton car rally sets off this high–spirited, fondly remembered comedy in which a couple make a wager with their affectionate…
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn - Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell are out to rustle a millionaire or two on a seacruise to France in this glistening confection based on the stage…
Hobson's Choice (1953)- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Charles Laughton - Hard to take one's eyes off the maniacal acting of Charles Laughton in this Dickensian comic–drama, as a vulgar cobbler whose rebellious eldest…
Million Pound Note, The (1953)- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Gregory Peck, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell… - A fairly neat adaptation of Mark Twain's satirical fable about a pair of rich brothers who bet over whether a man can live on a million pounds,…
Moon is Blue, The (1953)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. William Holden, Maggie McNamara, David Niven - Bright, bristling romantic comedy centered on the courtship of a blithe and carefree commercials actress (McNamara) by the smooth–as–silk…
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot) (1953)- Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud - Jacques Tati fine–tunes the virtues of JOUR DE FETE to create his most eponymous character. The first of four Hulot features follows the…
Norman Wisdom Collection, The (Trouble in Store, Up in the World, On the Beat.) (1953-1962)- Feat. Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford
- Collection of three comedies – Trouble in Store, Up in the World and On the Beat – from admired British slapstick comedian Norman Wisdom,…
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