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Subgenre Sampler
Douglas Sirk Boxset (1952-1959)- Dir. Douglas Sirk
- Lavish box–set highlighting nine classics from the 'King of Hollywood Melodrama'. Includes the previously unreleased 'No Room for the Groom'…
Gentle Gunman, The (1952)- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, John Mills - Dirk Bogarde and John Mills are Irish brothers sent to London by the IRA during the Blitz, but one succumbs to pacifism.
Ikiru (1952)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka - A patient meditation on life and death about a sullen yet dutiful office clerk of 30 years whose terminal illness compels him to rediscover his…
Le Plaisir (House Of Pleasure) (1952)- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon… - Three tales by Guy de Maupassant go into this visually elegant treatise on the changing moods of love, youth and memory. The most successful…
Mandy (1952)- Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan - British drama about a girl who has been deaf and mute her whole life, and her family's attempts to help her with a unique education, which causes…
Moulin Rouge (1952)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Jose Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Suzanne Flon… - Opulently staged fictional biopic of Toulouse–Lautrec, highlighted by a dazzling can–can sequence. The pint–sized French painter is…
Othello (1952)
- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Suzanne Cloutier… - Dir. Welles filmed Shakespeare's great tragedy over four years in Europe and North Africa, and despite some patchy moments, turned in probably the…
- Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Bette Davis - Fine acting, from Bette Davis among others, lifts story of aircrash survivors coming together.
Summer with Monika (1952)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Harriet Andersson - Early Bergman turns his lens on a pair of working class, teenage lovers. At first this rebellious holiday boat ride comes across as dreamy escapism…
Ace in the Hole (The Big Carnival) (1951)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Porter Hall - Cast in a hole until recently, this scathing editorial on media sensationalism and the human spectacle stars Kirk Douglas (never fiercer) as a…
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