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Subgenre Sampler
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…
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…
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…
Idiot, The (Hakuchi) (1951)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori… - Flawed but compelling adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel of human frailty, in which a madman and war criminal (Mori), is released from an…
Lady with the Lamp, The (1951)- Dir. Herbert Wilcox
Feat. Dame Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Gladys Young… - Well–wrought biopic charts the dramatic life of Florence Nightingale, finely played by Dame Neagle, and her pioneering nursing career.
No Highway in the Sky (1951)- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns… - Early disaster pic has Stewart as an aeronautical engineer convinced that a new model of airplane is doomed to disaster due to metal fatigue, and…
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