For its first big-budget live-action movie, Disney turned to a classic: Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The studio also turned to a few major Hollywood…
Browsing: Movies 1954
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Army buddies Jerry Hotchkiss (Jerry Lewis) and Pete Nelson (Dean Martin) join a circus after they are discharged from their military service. Jerry is so…
Set in the year 1912, an upper crust English family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to…
This on-target animated cartoon faithfully based on George Orwell’s political satire was the first-ever feature-length British animated film. Until the final reel, Animal Farm sticks faithfully to…
Burt Lancaster stars as Massai, an angry Apache Indian warrior who boldly crusades for justice for his tribe and then settles down. For once, the…
Artists and Models, which provided the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis duo with its finest screen hour, is a dizzily self-reflexive play on movie illusion. Eugene Fullstack…
The surface appeal of The Barefoot Contessa is obvious: Ava Gardner at her most glamorous as the rags-to-riches star Maria Vargas alongside Humphrey Bogart at his most…
A rollicking British comedy based on Ronald Searle’s cartoons of a terrifying girls’ school known as St. Trinian’s. Bookie Clarence (Alastair Sim) is the brother…
Clark Gable stars in a wartime espionage drama which has as many thrills as surprises. It is based on the controversy which still rages about…
While grouse shooting in Scotland, Americans Tommy (Gene Kelly) and Jeff (Van Johnson) lose their way in the mist. When it clears they find themselves…
Nominated for seven Academy Awards in 1954 (including Best Picture and Best Actor), The Caine Mutiny is a classic film (based on a novel by Herman Wouk)…
The legendarily beautiful and troubled African-American actress Dorothy Dandridge (pictured), like so many sex symbols, was a martyr to her beauty in life, while in…
A group of kids, led by brainbox Horatio Flynn (Christopher Beeny – later of Upstairs Downstairs fame – in an early role) in a small…
One of seemingly dozens of PoW dramas made in the early to mid-1950s (The Wooden Horse, Stalag 17, Albert RN), this is set in the infamous…
The population of the small Norfolk (UK) village of Saltingsby battle the Royal Air Force which intends to use the small “Island of Children” in…
Universal’s exclusive movie monster club got a new member in 1954. Joining such familiar frighteners as Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Mummy and The Wolf Man was…
It’s the day of the staff Christmas party at the mammoth London West End department store of Bunting and Hobbs (the film was shot in…
A spaceship lands in Scotland. The ship contains a leather-clad Martian woman – armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot – who…
Alfred Hitchcock only took on this version of Frederick Knott’s play to fulfil his Warner Brothers contract. Such was his lack of interest in the…
Originally released as simply The Diamond and known as Britain’s first 3-D movie, this 1954 action-thriller was actually only shown in 3-D once, at a…
