Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Appointment with Venus (1951)- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. David Niven, Glynis Johns, Kenneth More - Bizarre war drama based on a true story about a small recently occupied British isle with a very important prize cow living on it that the War Office…
Bellissima (1951)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella… - Neo–realist dir. Visconti directs Anna Magnani in a freewheeling performance as a working–class mother obsessed with turning her young…
Big Night, The (1951)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. John Jr. Barrymore, Preston Foster, Joan Lorring… - Tense melodrama has Barrymore traumatised by watching his father submit to a beating at the hands of a petty gangster. Setting out to avenge his…
Browning Version, The (1951)- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent - Sterling adaptation of Terrence Rattigan’s play features an unforgettable performance from Michael Redgrave as the cuckolded,…
Cry, The Beloved Country (1951)- Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Joyce Carey, Canada Lee… - Deeply felt racial drama has Rev. Sidney Poitier encountering South African–style bigotry as he searches for his son in Johannesburg.
David and Bathsheba (1951)- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey… - The Hollywood romance as Biblical epic, with Gregory Peck as an adulterous King David who falls for the foxy Bathsheba (Hayward) – nevermind…
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal - The blueprint for excellence in fifties sci–fi, Michael Rennie plays Klaatu, a peace–seeking alien whose good intentions meet with…
Desert Fox, The (1951)- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Mason, Jessica Tandy, Sir Cedric Hardwicke… - James Mason gives a definitive performance as Nazi General Rommel (which he repeated for THE DESERT RATS), whose troubles proved overwhelming despite…
Detective Story (1951)- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, Cathy O'Donnell… - Kirk Douglas is his grizzled, hard–bitten self as one of several detectives trying to get through the work day at a busy Brooklyn…
Early Summer (Bakushû) (1951)- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima - Another of dir. Ozu's majestic domestic dramas, this time concerning the inner–family conflicts over the spinsterhood of a daughter (Hara) and…
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