When scientists and best friends Bill Leggatt (Stephen Murray) and Robin Grant (John Van Eyssen) fall in love with the same girl (Barbara Payton), they…
Browsing: Movies 1953
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This first-rate, compelling drama about army life in Hawaii on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor comes across with power and passion, thanks…
In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the Marilyn Monroe mannerisms all combine in a very sexy explosion of music, comedy, and romance unequalled in the rest of her career. She…
Chief Inspector Robert Chubb of Scotland Yard (Charles Victor) is accompanied by his homely spouse Clara (Marjorie Rhodes), daughter Kathy (Eileen Moore), and his schoolboy…
Psychiatrist Dr Alton (Timothy Farrell) narrates two stories: one of a transvestite called Glen (Edward D. Wood Jr under the pseudonym Daniel Davis) who secretly…
Family men Roy Collins (Edmond O’Brien) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy) set out on a fishing trip, but a hitch-hiker turns their holiday into a…
A vivid Technicolor account of the life of the famous escapologist Harry Houdini (played here by Tony Curtis), from his early days as a carnival…
As much a vehicle for a scenery-devouring Vincent Price as for the newfangled 3D process that would kick-start the 1950s craze, the Victorian horror shows…
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…
Melvin Hoover (Donald O’Connor) is a low-level, clumsy assistant photographer for Look magazine. One day in Central Park, he accidentally runs into Judy LeRoy (Debbie…
A group of people board a plane in London for Paris to experience their first visit to that enchanting city. The film follows their various…
Stockbroker Wolf Merton (Jack Hawkins), an ex-colonel in the Tank Corps, returns to his Belgravia home to find an intruder rifling his desk. The man…
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…
This classic 1953 Children’s Film Foundation (CFF) production tells the affecting story of a young orphaned Polish refugee named Janek (Eugeniusz Chylek) who faces prejudice…
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…