Swashbuckling nonsense as Abbott and Costello go in search of the titular pirate’s secret treasure when, as two tavern waiters on the pirate island of…
Browsing: Movies 1952
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Robert Louis Stevenson probably spun wildly in his grave over this production as Slim (Bud Abbott) and Tubby (Lou Costello) – two American police officers…
Biff Roberts (Eddie Bracken), Tony Williams (Gordon MacRae) and Dave Crouse (Dick Wesson) are just three months away from graduating as US Army officers from…
Otto Preminger’s Angel Face features Robert Mitchum as Frank Jessup, a private investigator who discovers – but cannot escape from – the machinations of Diane Tremayne, the…
Filmed at RAF Kenley in Surrey, Angels One Five tells the story of some of the “Few” – the men of the Royal Air Force…
The seven-year-old son of leading nuclear physicist Frank Addison (Gene Barry in his big-screen debut) from Los Alamos, New Mexico (the “Atomic City” of the…
Still the best Hollywood-on-Hollywood movie, The Bad and The Beautiful is loosely based on the career of David O. Selznick, detouring to take in a few insider…
In Howard Hawks’s The Big Sky, Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin are fur traders in the 1830s, journeying up the Missouri river into Blackfoot country on…
This sequel to Bedtime For Bonzo (1951) sees the educated chimp escape from a travelling carnival and move in with Betsy Drew (Gigi Perreau), the granddaughter…
Bwana Devil began the modern 3-D era of movies and for a while threatened to single-handedly end it. The world’s first full-colour three dimensional (3-D) film…
This warm and witty comedy tells the story of lovable rogue Denry Machin (Alec Guinness) – the poor son of a washerwoman who sees opportunity…
Lola Delaney (Shirley Booth, in her movie debut) and her recovering alcoholic chiropractor husband, Doc (Burt Lancaster), didn’t have a great start to their relationship.…
This less than pleasant crime drama was filmed in post-war London and based on a stage play called Master Crook by Bruce Walker about the activities…
Two years after The Flame and the Arrow, Robert Siodmak’s The Crimson Pirate was another chance for Burt Lancaster and his acrobatic partner Nick Cravat…
Dim-witted Harry Jones (Harry Secombe) is an assistant in Mr Crab’s grocery shop and an amateur actor in community theatre, where he is currently playing…
This classic French film about the wonders of childhood – originally titled Jeux interdits – was called The Secret Game on its first British release. It…
Sailors Benny Linn (Groucho Marx) and Tim Dunnovan (William Bendix) are conned into buying a lame race-horse and go ashore to sort out the problem. But when they…
When 25-year old Parisian student, Gérard Morere (Jean-François Calvé), hears a lecture about a treasure lost in the Mediterranean after the Peloponnesian War, he thinks…
With the help of the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circuses, an all-star cast goes over the top in the big top, directed by…
A working-class family are under siege in this light-hearted South London comedy. Government bureaucrats erroneously miss The House of Lords (a smartly-named shop in the…