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,…
Browsing: Movies 1953
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Filmed at Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey (UK), this British crime drama – ostensibly a cheapie anglicised steal from The Postman Always Rings Twice -…
Gerald MacTeam (Richard Carlson) – an American of Scottish descent – calls off his engagement to Kitty Murray (Veronica Hurst) when he learns of his…
Stanley Holloway stars as Sam Hollingsworth – a washed-up pantomime Demon King who is knocked unconscious on-stage while pondering on the adverse effect of television…
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…
“Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning.” Sir James M. Barrie’s book Peter Pan was a long-time favourite of Walt Disney’s, and the pioneering…
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…
This early low-budget British sci-fi offering from Hammer Films tells the story of young American science engineer Dr Stephen Mitchell (Howard Duff), who is accused…
Luftwaffe camp Stalag 17D is an unruly World War II POW camp run by arrogant and cruel commandant Von Scherbach (Otto Preminger) who advises the…
The picturesque village of Titfield is linked to a nearby town, Mallingford, by a single track railway. Unfortunately, the railway loses money and is closed…
Fast-talking London bookmaker and con man “Professor” Ronnie Fortescue (Ronald Shiner) finds himself in severe trouble with local gangsters over gambling debts and needs a…
The escapades of a diminutive stock room employee of a large London store, his ambitions to become a window-dresser (the window dressing segment is a…