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…
Browsing: Movies 1954
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Tim Matthews (Jack Watling), a security worker employed in unloading gold bullion shipments at London Airport, meets Harry Preston (Terence Alexander), an old prisoner-of-war comrade…
A spaceship lands in Scotland. The ship contains a leather-clad Martian woman – armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot -…
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…
Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) is a newly arrived medical student at the fictional St Swithin’s Hospital in London. The naive, serious-minded Sparrow falls in with…
Tough Indian fighter Johnny MacKay (Alan Ladd) is appointed to make peace with a troublesome tribe in California in this fact-based western, which gave Charles Bronson…
Crown City is a played-out mining town. Just a few yards away across the river there are vast reserves of gold but it lies in…
“10,965 pyramids, 5,337 dancing girls, one million swaying bulrushes and 802 sacred bulls”. Based on a best-selling novel and renowned as the most expensive production…
As an April Fool prank, taxi driver Tom Banning (Richard Attenborough) is led to an abandoned bomb-site by an eight-year-old girl. The youngster is later…
A beautiful Texan heiress travels incognito aboard a luxury cruise liner, hoping to find a man who’ll love her for herself rather than her money.…
Miner Jim Gay (Wilfred Pickles in his motion picture debut) owns a racing greyhound called Raving Beauty. Sometimes, it seems to his wife, Maggie (Megs…
The Glenn Miller Story is one of the most touching and durable of all Hollywood musical biopics thanks to a convincing, three-dimensional performance by Jimmy Stewart…
When a dinosaur-like beast is awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing and ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon…
Dr David Sheppard (Richard Egan) is a scientist and security expert from the Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI) in Washington, DC who is called in…
Widowed Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles Laughton) is the owner/operator of Hobson’s Boots in Salford in the 1880s. Henry lives with his three adult daughters, Maggie (Brenda…
Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) has just lost her job modelling girdles when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard (Jack Lemmon in his feature film debut) shooting…
The melodrama of Johnny Guitar is so over-the-top that some will find it laughable. Others will fall under the spell of its hypnotic power. Joan Crawford plays…
Dr Douglas Martin (Peter Graves) is a nuclear scientist working on atomic bomb tests. While collecting aerial data on an atomic blast at Soledad Flats,…
La Strada is Frederico Fellini’s fourth film and the one that made his international reputation. Starring Anthony Quinn as Zampanò the Strongman and the director’s wife,…