Pretty Marjorie Clark (Pauline Stroud) – whose parents run the local corner shop – wins a beauty competition in her Midlands town and finds herself…
Browsing: Movies 1951
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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…
Bob Hope stars as Sidney Milburn, the titular con artist in this (extremely loose) adaptation of Damon Runyon’s short story. His main gig is as…
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…
Captain Richard Lance (Gregory Peck in a role originally intended for Gary Cooper) is a strong, silent cavalry officer who is hated for his by-the-book…
When her nightclub singer boyfriend Vince Nichols (Dennis Morgan) won’t give up his gambling, Abby (Lucille Norman) joins vaudeville partners Carol (Virginia Mayo) and June…
Set in the early 1930s in a small but fashionable seaport town called Esperanza (“Hope”) on “the Mediterranean coast of Spain,” where idle rich exiles…
Take a dash of pre-marital pregnancy; add a snootful of anti-medical stuffiness; mix in a bit of miracle healing; liberally lace with sophistication, cynicism and…
In adapting Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy for the screen, director George Stevens was faced with the difficulty of making the novelist’s grimly naturalist tale of class…
Into the Pool of London on the River Thames sails the Dunbar, a cargo ship out of Rotterdam, and the seamen on board disembark for…
After six months of filming in Rome, and at a cost of nearly $7 million, the biggest budget Hollywood movie since Gone With The Wind, the…
A big national crime syndicate moves into town, partnering with local crime boss Nick Scanlon (Robert Ryan). There are two problems: 1) Nick is the…
Henry Fleming (America’s most decorated real-life World War II hero, Audie Murphy) – referred to as “The Youth” – is a young Union recruit anxious…
Dotty multi-millionaire TJ Banner (Gene Lockhart) leaves his entire fortune to a fierce ginger cat called Rhubarb – who also inherits a failing baseball team,…
Stubbornly refusing to believe in Christmas or to be separated from his inexhaustible wealth, money lender and parsimonious recluse Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) can’t be…
The Cotton Blossom, owned by the Hawks family, is a renowned showboat in the American deep south. Julie Laverne (Ava Gardner) and her husband are…