When innocent boxer Tommy Nelson (Arthur Franz) is set up and charged for killing his manager, he steals a serum from Dr Philip Gray (Gavin…
Browsing: Movies 1951
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On 30 January 1925, a man named William Floyd Collins became trapped underground while exploring a network of caves beneath his native Kentucky. Attempts to…
Set in German East Africa at the beginning of World War I, this magnificent comedy tells the tale of an unlikely romance between Rose Sayer,…
Having acquired the rights to the Tenniel drawings in the 1930s, Walt Disney hoped to star Mary Pickford in the first animated retelling of Alice’s…
The music of George and Ira Gershwin underscores this Academy Award-winning tale of an artist caught between two women in post-war Paris. Shot almost entirely…
Future US president Ronald Reagan starred as Professor Peter Boyd, who becomes a surrogate parent to a chimpanzee named Bonzo. Disregard the political angle and…
Andrew Crocker-Harris (Michael Redgrave) is the unhappily-married middle-aged classics master at a public school. The tragedy of his life is the fact that while he…
Guns blaze, masts and rigging crash to the deck, railings disappear in showers of splinters and acrid black smoke sweeps across the deck of the…
This 1951 British mystery film was made by Hammer Films at Bray Studios. Constable Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby (Brian Reece) – the “PC 49” of the title…
The first Hammer film to be made at Bray Studios, Cloudburst follows Canadian John Graham (Robert Preston), who is living in London in 1946 and supervising the…
One of the most influential science fiction films of all time, 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still was a parable for the nuclear age, a warning…
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the “Desert Fox”, was the commander of the crack German Afrika Korps, whose brilliant tactics earned him the respect of both…
Detective Jim McLeod (Kirk Douglas) of the 21st Precinct in New York has a heart of stone. Unlike his rough but sympathetic police buddy, Detective…
Timid bank teller Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra) saves a big gambler (Nestor Paiva) from being beaten up by a pair of hoodlums and becomes rich…
What happens to a family when their two-year-old infant son trundles home with a little red toy wagon filled to the brim with banknotes? And,…
Set during the first winter of the Korean War, Fixed Bayonets! is the story of an American rifle platoon of 48 men left behind on a narrow,…
Newspaper reporter Steve Abbott (Cameron Mitchell), senior physicist Dr Lane (John Litel), Professor Jackson (Richard Gaines), engineer Jim Barker (Arthur Franz), and assistant engineer Carol…
The title of this 1951 drama tells you how long a distressed man (Richard Basehart) stands on a 15th-floor window ledge intending to jump. But…
This black and white film noir movie from director Robert Wise starts as an inquiry into the plight of people rescued from Hitler’s concentration camps…
The “kind lady” of the title is the elderly, wealthy, and gracious spinster Mary Herries (Ethel Barrymore), a patron of the arts. Her kindness brings her…