Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Doctor in the House (1954)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde - First and best of a series in which Doctors and Nurses exchange fleeting glances and banter for comic effect while training at a med school. Dirk…
Father Knows Best (TV Series) (1954-1960)- Dir. Peter Tewksbury
Feat. Sarah Selby, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray - Cloying sitcom bathed in the idealised glow of 50's apple–pie America, centred on a suburban family and their typically patriarchal upbringing.…
Knock on Wood (1954)- Dir. Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Feat. Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher… - Danny Kaye plays a ventriloquist who is comically unlucky in love due to his jealous dummy, who manages to sabotage every relationship he has right…
Living It Up (1954)- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh… - One of the funnier Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedies of the 17 they made together. Jerry Lewis plays a stationmaster from provincial New Mexico…
Long, Long Trailer, The (1954)- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz - Gallivanting in an enormous RV across America, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz journey to disaster in this winning slapstick comedy. The classic TV…
Maggie, The (High and Dry) (1954)- Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie - Ealing comedy about the argumentative crew of an aged cargo boat, captained by a wily Scottish man who clashes with a wealthy American industrialist.
Sabrina (1954)- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden - Cinderella–ish comic yarn with a dream cast and director. Audrey Hepburn plays a humble chauffeur's daughter who wins the affections of noble…
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…
To Catch a Thief (1954)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Grace Kelly - Hitchcock takes a whimsical approach for this caper about a reformed cat burglar who sets about catching the thief that is imitating his old style.…
Who Done It? (1954)- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Benny Hill - A young Benny Hill nudges and winks his way through his only feature film, as a novice private eye who gets involved with foreign spies.
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