Long John Silver – filmed in Australia four years after Walt Disney’s version of Treasure Island – had Robert Newton reprising his role as the…
Browsing: Movies 1954
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The Maggie is a tiny old puffer boat based on the River Clyde that is nearly ready for the scrap heap. In a last-ditch effort…
This British screen adaptation of Peter Cheyney’s The Urgent Hangman (the first of his Slim Callaghan novels, published in 1938) featured the screen debut of…
Set in 1194, King Richard the Lionheart (Patrick Holt) has been taken prisoner in Germany on his return from the Crusades and held to ransom…
Mark Twain’s vintage comedic short story The Million Pound Note is the subject of this Technicolor film from Pinewood starring Gregory Peck, pretty newcomer Jane…
“I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody instead of a bum, which is what I am, let’s face it”.…
The little man who scored such a success in his first film, Trouble In Store (1953), was back again to cheer us all up. This time, Norman…
James Stewart stars as “Jeff” Jeffries, a news photographer with a broken leg who is confined to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment during…
In the days before zero-tolerance policies and school shootings, kids were allowed to bring truth-telling alien rayguns to school anytime they could get their hands…
A thick fog has blanketed much of Britain for 48 hours, halting all air and rail traffic. At London Airport, no flights are coming in…
Choreographer Michael Kidd’s exuberant dance numbers are the best of many good things about this joyful – though undeniably profoundly sexist – musical set in…
A veteran samurai (Takashi Shimura) answers a village’s request for protection from marauding bandits who return yearly to rape, kill and steal. He assembles a…
In this gripping Western, John Payne stars as Dan Ballard, a respected and well-liked rancher in the small town where he has lived for the…
Judy Garland starred in this musical remake of the 1937 drama of the same name, starring Janet Gaynor and Frederic March. The tried and trusted…
Prince Karl Franz of Karlsburg (Edmund Purdom, looking like a rugged Montgomery Clift) – a “Prussian pickle” – is spoiled, stubborn, petulant and haughty but…
Eager to reinforce his burgeoning dramatic reputation, Frank Sinatra seized the role of the psychologically damaged war veteran hired by unseen forces to shoot the…
Director Gordon Douglas’s shocker is laden with clever visual and verbal puns as giant mutant ants spawned by radiation from atomic testing in 1945 arrive…
Three American women working as secretaries at the US embassy in Rome throw coins into the city’s Trevi Fountain in the hope of meeting the…
This tale of lone American newspaperman John Desmond (Larry Parks) taking on a gang of international thieves in London begins with the hero’s shooting and…
In this tinselled Technicolor spectacular, old WWII army buddies Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) are a song-and-dance team who travel to…