How to Marry a Millionaire teamed Marilyn Monroe with Lauren Bacall and the great Betty Grable as three gorgeous gold-digging models who rent an expensive playgirl…
Browsing: Movies 1953
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One night, young astronomy enthusiast David McLean (Jimmy Hunt) sees a spaceship crash into a nearby sandpit. His father (Leif Erickson) goes to investigate, but…
Laurie Vining (Bonar Colleano, hired to provide international appeal) is an American naval officer stationed in England. He is getting ready to go on his…
Based on Ray Bradbury’s story The Meteor, this early 3-D classic was the first of many brilliant sci-fi films from director Jack Arnold, who went…
Scotsman Jim MacKenzie (Duncan Macrae) lives in a primitive homestead in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia where he is raising his two grandsons, Harry…
Fred (Howard Keel) and Lilli (Kathryn Grayson) are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter (Ron Randell) who has written…
At the height of their fabulous fame, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz teamed up with veteran director Vincente Minnelli for this crisp, slick, and hilarious…
Canadian Bernard Braden stars as Roger Fox, a penniless artist who is unable to provide for his wife Jean (Braden’s real-life wife Barbara Kelly) in…
It is 1942 and Britain is clinging to the island of Malta, located south of Sicily and critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. Unsurprisingly,…
Grant Phillips (Robert Knapp) and Doreen Culbertson (Paula Hill, billed here as Mary Hill) stagger across the Mexican desert until they are rescued from certain…
Safari leader Vic Marswell (Clark Gable) becomes involved in an explosive romantic triangle with an American showgirl named “Honey Bear” Kelly (Ava Gardner) and Linda…
Sir James M. Barrie’s book Peter Pan was a long-time favourite of Walt Disney’s, and the pioneering animator worked for years to bring it to Technicolor life.…
The film begins in the sticky heat of a New York subway train. Candy (Jean Peters), her bored face covered with a film of perspiration,…
This James Michener tale has Gary Cooper as Mr Morgan – an American drifter and soldier of fortune who stumbles on the remote Pacific island…
20th Century Fox’s The Robe was the first motion picture filmed using Fox’s new process called Cinemascope (“The modern miracle you see without glasses!”). The wide-screen technique…
Universally derided as one of the worst movies ever made, Robot Monster tells the frightening tale of earth’s invasion by “Ro-Man”, a killer robot from Mars -…
William Wyler’s Roman Holiday is a romantic, bittersweet account of 24 hours in the life of a young European princess (Audrey Hepburn). On a state visit to…
Everything in Shane is iconic; The hero in the white buckskin who happens to ride into town (Alan Ladd); the conniving rancher, Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer) with his mangy,…
Augustus “Geechy” Cheevers Mickey Rooney Frederick Clopp Eddie Bracken Beverly Ambridge Elaine Stewart Emily Clopp Marilyn Erskine Mr White Douglas Fowley Police Captain Robert…
Known during production as Between Two Goals, this was a kind of 1950s Escape To Victory which tells the story of Canadian ex-serviceman (and talented…