Subgenre Sampler
Bus Stop (1956)
- Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray - Marilyn Monroe excels in this comedy/drama as a distraught southern showgirl who becomes the object of desire and marriage for an obsessive and naive…
French Can Can (French Cancan, Only the French Can) (1955)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Michel Piccoli, Dora Doll… - Jean Renoir returned to France after 15 years absence to make this vibrant tribute to the Parisian world of his father, the Impressionist painter…
Final Test, The (1953)- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph… - Gentle comedy of values has a famed cricketer making his way to the middle for one last innings. Meanwhile is son is torn between seeing dad bat one…
Hobson's Choice (1953)- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Charles Laughton - Hard to take one's eyes off the maniacal acting of Charles Laughton in this Dickensian comic–drama, as a vulgar cobbler whose rebellious eldest…
Flavour Of Green Tea Over Rice, The (Ochazuke no aji) (1952)- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Kōji Tsuruta - Dir. Ozu once again explores the subtleties of Japanese family life, this time drawing our attention to the struggles of those in arranged marriages…
White Sheik, The (Sceicco bianco, Lo) (1952)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulietta Masina - Fellini’s against–the–grain feature debut coaxes the marital problems of a newlywed couple into a light, playful comedy that wasn’t…
People Will Talk (1951)- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn - Enjoyable and sophisticated allegory, disguised as a standard Hollywood romantic comedy, in which a humanitarian doctor (Grant) must contend with the…
History of Mr. Polly, The (1949)- Dir. Anthony Pelissier
Feat. John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins… - Bracing comedy set in the Victorian era follows the various misfortunes of sensitive but ineffectual draper Mills as he sets out in search of…
Quartet (1949)- Dir. Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford, Honor Blackman - Four W Somerset Maugham stories are given exemplary treatment by the best of British, incl. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford and Honor Blackman. Unlike…
Roxie Hart (Chicago) (1942)- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery… - Comedy adapting the 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, which was the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical. Ginger Rogers plays the…
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