Director Fred Zinnemann’s film High Noon was made during the McCarthy era. Consequently, it has been invested with political significance way beyond the striking simplicity of its plot. The…
Browsing: Movies 1952
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David Preston (Ralph Richardson), a meek City of London bank clerk and a man of regular habits, returns to his suburban home in Kent at…
Hunted portrayed the flight and pursuit across England of seaman Chris Lloyd (Dirk Bogarde), on the run after killing his wife’s lover, accompanied by young…
18-year-old Joan Collins had her most important role to date in this brilliantly-acted Ealing film. She played Norma, a petulant youngster who finds herself in…
Steely-eyed Alan Ladd stars as Jim Bowie, famed inventor of the knife – the “iron mistress” – that bears his name, in this would-be rip-roaring…
The first batch of releases for 1952 from The Children’s Film Foundation (CFF) included four short subjects and just two of the hour-long features with…
Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith (Jerry Lewis) has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen (Dean Martin) joined the army, with lovely new partner…
This touching, realistic drama stars Robert Mitchum as Jeff McCloud – a former rodeo champ forced to retire through injury – and Arthur Kennedy as…
The historic and picturesque English market town of Dunmow is famous for the Dunmow Flitch Trial – a test to find a married couple whose…
Alexander Mackendrick’s pioneering drama about the experiences of a young deaf girl remains underrated alongside his great Ealing comedies Whisky Galore! and The Ladykillers (1955). When…
Henry Wrigley (Richard Hearne) is the author of a serial comic strip entitled Miss Robin Hood in a children’s magazine called The Teenager. Discovering that the…
A mad scientist known as ‘the Vampire’ (Bela Lugosi) comes to England to complete experiments in his mad plan for world domination using an army…
The film opens sometime after the close of World War II with a strange assortment of people assembled to give evidence at the Paris office…
The Pickwick Club – chaired, of course, by the kindly Mr Samuel Pickwick (James Hayter), the rotund middle-aged bachelor with his spectacles, tight trousers and…
Middle-aged widow Charlotte Carson (Jill Esmond) lives in a council house on a new estate in Hammington with her son Hugh (Jack Watling) and daughter…
In America, Sean Thornton (John Wayne) was a boxer, but he retired from this career after accidentally killing a man in the ring. Now he…
Radar Men from the Moon was produced by Republic Pictures in 1952 as a 12-chapter movie serial released weekly to cinemas. Commando Cody (George Wallace)…
This Universal picture paid tribute to a hitherto unsung bunch of heroes of World War II. It is August 1944, and Patton’s Third Army has…
Before 1952, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, and Arthur Freed had made some great films. Kelly made his mark with his “man on the street” choreography…
Eddie Miller (Arthur Franz) is a lovelorn psychopathic killer who has been prematurely released from a prison mental hospital. He arms himself with a carbine…