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…
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…
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…
Pretty Marjorie Clark (Pauline Stroud) – whose parents run the local corner shop – wins a beauty competition in her Midlands town and finds herself…
Four relatives of a recently-deceased horrible old practical joker (Hugh Griffith) are each set to receive a substantial sum of money in his will, but…
One of the finest British comedies ever made, this delightful caper movie stars Alex Guinness as “Dutch” Holland – a mild-mannered and fastidious bank clerk…
Elderly scientist Professor Elliot (Raymond Bond) has discovered that a new planet – “Planet X” – has changed its orbital path and will soon come…
The Man in the White Suit appeared in August 1951, two months after another famous Ealing comedy – The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) – had its premiere. It…
Funny things begin to happen at the Church of John Home for the Aged when an author with unconventional ideas about rejuvenation tries to put…
Stuck for a musical vehicle for the fast-rising Doris Day, Warners took the Booth Tarkington ‘Penrod’ stories that had been filmed before and (making the…
