Subgenre Sampler
Seminole (1953)- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn… - Superlative Western set against the backdrop of 1835 Florida, where Rock Hudson plays a West Pointer Lieutenant who, on the insistence of Richard…
Thunder Bay (1953)- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland… - Stewart and Mann swap horses for oil–rigs – though its still very much a western – in this brawny adventure set in the Gulf of…
Wages of Fear (Salaire de la Peur, Le) (1953)
- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Yves Montand, Charles Vanel - A young Yves Montand leads a group of impoverished men over rocky Latin American terrain with a dangerous load of nitro–glycerine. Considered…
Angel Face (1952)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons - Jean Simmons is a woman possessed in this quietly unconventional film noir, playing a take–no–prisoners femme fatale who systematically…
Clash by Night (1952)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe - Simmering jealousies in a run–down fishing village provide downbeat fare from the pen of Clifford Odets. With Barbara Stanwyk, Robert Ryan and…
Five Fingers (5 Fingers) (1952)- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie… - Witty espionage thriller set during the Second World War with Mason as a status–hungry valet who hawks important documents to the Germans in…
Hunted (1952)- Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh, Geoffrey Keen… - Brit suspense trailing an orphan on the run from his foster parents wrath after an accident who is kidnapped by a wanted criminal who trys to prevent…
Kansas City Confidential (1952)- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, John Payne, Coleen Gray… - A grimly tough crime drama set in the Kansas City underworld. Payne plays an ex–con who is jailed for an unrelated crime, and on release…
Narrow Margin (1952)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White… - A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Niagara (1952)- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters… - This bold film provided Marilyn with her first big part, and it's possibly her best. She's a scheming, faithless wife who plots to murder her husband…
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