Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Salt of the Earth (1954)
- Dir. Herbert J. Biberman
Feat. Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer - An incendiary tale of racial prejudice, big business greed and feminist uprising that pushed plenty of buttons in the fifties, making it first of its…
Samurai Trilogy, The (Musashi Miyamoto, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, Duel at Ganryu Island) (1954-1956)- Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki
Feat. Toshiro Mifune - Sweeping saga of a legendary 17th century samurai Musashi Miyamoto, that made an icon of actor Toshiro Mifune. Played out against the turmoil of a…
Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff) (1954)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyoko Kagawa… - One of Mizoguchi's great classics, based on an 11th century Japanese folktale elaborated into a sprawling vision of a cruel, mysterious cosmos, where…
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards… - Rollicking musical set in backwoods Oregon, with brothers all looking for brides–to–be.
Seven Samurai, The (1954)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune - Kurosawa's classic 'Eastern Western' about a village who hire an elite band of warriors to fend off marauders. Compassionate storytelling with combat…
Sleeping Tiger (1954)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde - Suave street–crim Dirk Bogarde is sheltered by one of his victims, a psychiatrist who attempts to cure Bogarde's 'illness'. Shot with a baroque…
Sound of the Mountain (Yama No Oto) (1954)- Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Soh Yamamura - Dir. Naruse reprises the disintegrating marriage (and cast) of his earlier film, REPAST, in this profoundly affecting tale of a young woman (Hara)…
Student Prince, The (1954)- Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson… - Taken from the operetta by Sigmund Romberg, and the third filmed version of the tale of a young Prince breaking out into the real world by falling in…
Suddenly (1954)- Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden - Frank Sinatra impresses in an unsympathetic role: a sneering, cynical war–veteran out to practice his marksmanship on the President of the…
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)- Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe… - Gaudy musical about Show Business. Stars Marilyn and some great Irving Berlin songs.
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