Radar Men from the Moon was produced by Republic Pictures in 1952 as a 12-chapter movie serial released weekly to cinemas. Commando Cody (George Wallace)…
Browsing: 1952
This warm and witty comedy tells the story of lovable rogue Denry Machin (Alec Guinness) – the poor son of a washerwoman who sees opportunity…
Ralph Richardson plays J.R. (no, not that one!), the head of an aircraft manufacturing empire who is willing to sacrifice everything for his quest to…
Biff Roberts (Eddie Bracken), Tony Williams (Gordon MacRae) and Dave Crouse (Dick Wesson) are just three months away from graduating as US Army officers from…
Alexander Mackendrick’s pioneering drama about the experiences of a young deaf girl remains underrated alongside his great Ealing comedies Whisky Galore! and The Ladykillers (1955). When…
A working-class family are under siege in this light-hearted South London comedy. Government bureaucrats erroneously miss The House of Lords (a smartly-named shop in the…
Hunted portrayed the flight and pursuit across England of seaman Chris Lloyd (Dirk Bogarde), on the run after killing his wife’s lover, accompanied by young…
Eddie Miller (Arthur Franz) is a lovelorn psychopathic killer who has been prematurely released from a prison mental hospital. He arms himself with a carbine…
This sequel to Bedtime For Bonzo (1951) sees the educated chimp escape from a travelling carnival and move in with Betsy Drew (Gigi Perreau), the granddaughter…
January 05 – Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for talks with Truman. 07 – General Dwight D Eisenhower says he will run for US President. 12 – The prototype Vickers…
A mild-mannered Harvard graduate goes out to the Wild West seeking the fortune left him by his late father, only to find himself fending off…
Before 1952, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, and Arthur Freed had made some great films. Kelly made his mark with his “man on the street” choreography…
In America, Sean Thornton (John Wayne) was a boxer, but he retired from this career after accidentally killing a man in the ring. Now he…
Director Fred Zinnemann’s film High Noon was made during the McCarthy era. Consequently, it has been invested with political significance way beyond the striking simplicity of its plot. The…
With the help of the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circuses, an all-star cast goes over the top in the big top, directed by…
When 25-year old Parisian student, Gérard Morere (Jean-François Calvé), hears a lecture about a treasure lost in the Mediterranean after the Peloponnesian War, he thinks…
This less than pleasant crime drama was filmed in post-war London and based on a stage play called Master Crook by Bruce Walker about the activities…
In Howard Hawks’s The Big Sky, Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin are fur traders in the 1830s, journeying up the Missouri river into Blackfoot country on…
Still the best Hollywood-on-Hollywood movie, The Bad and The Beautiful is loosely based on the career of David O. Selznick, detouring to take in a few insider…
Robert Louis Stevenson probably spun wildly in his grave over this production as Slim (Bud Abbott) and Tubby (Lou Costello) – two American police officers…
