Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes/Studio |
1954 |
3 Ring Circus |
Joseph Pevney |
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joanne Dru |
Musical comedy |
Paramount Pictures |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
Richard Fleischer |
Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre |
Adventure |
Disney; based on the novel by Jules Verne; winner of 2 Academy Awards |
About Mrs. Leslie |
Daniel Mann |
Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan |
Drama |
Paramount |
Alaska Seas |
Jerry Hopper |
Robert Ryan, Brian Keith, Jan Sterling |
Crime |
Paramount |
Apache |
Robert Aldrich |
Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire, Charles Bronson, John Dehner |
Western |
United Artists |
Athena |
Richard Thorpe |
Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Virginia Gibson |
Musical |
MGM |
The Atomic Kid |
Leslie H. Martinson |
Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Elaine Devry |
Comedy |
Republic |
Baby Buggy Bunny |
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Animated |
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Bait |
Hugo Haas |
Cleo Moore, John Agar |
Drama |
RKO |
The Barefoot Contessa |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Rossano Brazzi, Edmond O'Brien |
Drama |
Oscar for O'Brien |
Beachhead |
Stuart Heisler |
Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy |
War |
United Artists |
Beau Brummell |
Curtis Bernhardt |
Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov |
Biography |
MGM; remake of 1924 film |
Beautiful Stranger |
David Miller |
Ginger Rogers, Herbert Lom, Stanley Baker |
Mystery |
aka Twist of Fate |
Betrayed |
Gottfried Reinhardt |
Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature |
Drama |
MGM |
The Black Dakotas |
Ray Nazarro |
Wanda Hendrix, Gary Merrill |
Western |
Columbia |
The Black Knight |
Tay Garnett |
Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, Peter Cushing |
Adventure |
Columbia |
The Black Shield of Falworth |
Rudolph Mate |
Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh |
Adventure |
Universal |
Black Tuesday |
Hugo Fregonese |
Edward G. Robinson, Peter Graves |
Crime drama |
United Artists |
Black Widow |
Nunnally Johnson |
Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft |
Mystery |
20th Century Fox |
Border River |
George Sherman |
Joel McCrea, Yvonne de Carlo |
Western |
Universal |
The Boy from Oklahoma |
Michael Curtiz |
Will Rogers, Jr., Nancy Olson |
Western |
Warner Bros. |
The Bridges at Toko-Ri |
Mark Robson |
William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney |
War |
Paramount; Oscar for Best Visual Effects |
Brigadoon |
Vincente Minnelli |
Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse |
Musical |
MGM; 3 Oscar nominations |
Broken Lance |
Edward Dmytryk |
Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Richard Widmark, Katy Jurado |
Western |
20th Century Fox; won Oscar for Best Story |
Bugs and Thugs |
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Animated |
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Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
The Caine Mutiny |
Edward Dmytryk |
Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis, E.G. Marshall, Tom Tully, Jerry Paris, May Wynn, Lee Marvin |
War, Drama |
Columbia; based on Herman Wouk novel; 7 Oscar nominations |
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl |
Lew Landers |
Eva Gabor, Alan Hale, Jr. |
Adventure |
United Artists |
Carmen Jones |
Otto Preminger |
Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge |
Musical |
20th Century Fox; won Golden Globe |
Carnival Story |
Kurt Neumann |
Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran |
Drama |
RKO |
Casanova's Big Night |
Norman Z. McLeod |
Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Basil Rathbone |
Comedy |
Paramount |
Casino Royale |
William H. Brown, Jr. |
Barry Nelson, Peter Lorre |
James Bond |
From television series Climax |
Cattle Queen of Montana |
Allan Dwan |
Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan |
Western |
RKO |
The Country Girl |
George Seaton |
Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden |
Drama |
Paramount; Oscars for Kelly, screenplay |
Crash of Moons |
Hollingsworth Morse |
Richard Crane, Sally Mansfield |
Science fiction |
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Creature from the Black Lagoon |
Jack Arnold |
Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning |
Science fiction |
Universal; 2 sequels |
Crime Wave |
André de Toth |
Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Ted de Corsia, Phyllis Kirk |
Crime drama |
Warner Bros. |
Crossed Swords |
Milton Krims |
Errol Flynn, Gina Lollobrigida |
Swashbuckler |
Co-produced with Italy |
Cry Vengeance |
Mark Stevens |
Mark Stevens, Skip Homeier, Martha Hyer |
Crime |
Allied Artists |
Dangerous Mission |
Louis King |
Victor Mature, Piper Laurie |
Thriller |
RKO |
Deadly Game |
Daniel Birt |
Lloyd Bridges, Simone Silva |
Crime drama |
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Deep in My Heart |
Stanley Donen |
José Ferrer, Merle Oberon, Walter Pidgeon |
Musical, Biography |
MGM; story of Sigmund Romberg |
Demetrius and the Gladiators |
Delmer Daves |
Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Anne Bancroft |
Adventure |
20th Century Fox |
Désirée |
Henry Koster |
Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon |
Historical |
20th Century Fox |
Devil May Hare |
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Bugs Bunny |
Animated |
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Dial M for Murder |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, John Williams |
Suspense |
Warner Bros.; based on play by Frederick Knott |
Dixieland Droopy |
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Animated |
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Dog Pounded |
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Animation |
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Down Three Dark Streets |
Arnold Laven |
Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman |
Crime drama |
United Artists |
Downhearted Duckling |
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Animated |
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Dragonfly Squadron |
Lesley Selander |
John Hodiak, Barbara Britton |
War |
Allied Artists |
Drive a Crooked Road |
Richard Quine |
Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy |
Crime |
Columbia |
Drum Beat |
Delmer Daves |
Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton, Marisa Pavan |
Western |
Warner Bros. |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
The Egyptian |
Michael Curtiz |
Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Michael Wilding, Peter Ustinov |
Adventure |
20th Century Fox; based on the book |
Elephant Walk |
William Dieterle |
Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch |
Adventure |
Paramount |
Executive Suite |
Robert Wise |
William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, June Allyson, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Douglas, Shelley Winters, Louis Calhern, Nina Foch |
Drama |
4 Oscar nominations; a rare film with no music |
Flame and the Flesh |
Richard Brooks |
Lana Turner, Pier Angeli |
Drama |
MGM |
The French Line |
Lloyd Bacon |
Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland |
Musical |
RKO |
Garden of Evil |
Henry Hathaway |
Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark |
Western |
20th Century Fox |
The Glenn Miller Story |
Anthony Mann |
James Stewart, June Allyson, Charles Drake, George Tobias, Harry Morgan |
Biography, Musical |
Universal; 3 Oscar nominations |
Gog |
Herbert L. Strock |
Richard Egan, Herbert Marshall |
Sci-fi |
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Green Fire |
Andrew Marton |
Grace Kelly, Stewart Granger, Paul Douglas |
Adventure |
MGM |
Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy |
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Stop motion animation |
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Hell and High Water |
Samuel Fuller |
Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi |
Drama |
20th Century Fox |
Hell Below Zero |
Mark Robson |
Alan Ladd, Stanley Baker, Joan Tetzel |
Adventure |
Columbia |
Hell's Half Acre |
John H. Auer |
Evelyn Keyes, Wendell Corey |
Crime |
Republic |
Hell's Outpost |
Joseph Kane |
Rod Cameron, Joan Leslie |
Drama |
Republic |
The High and the Mighty |
William Wellman |
John Wayne, Robert Stack, Laraine Day, Claire Trevor, Jan Sterling, Robert Newton, Sidney Blackmer, Phil Harris, Paul Fix, Doe Avedon |
Drama |
6 Oscar nominations; won for Best Musical Score |
Highway Dragnet |
Nathan Juran |
Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix |
Crime drama |
Allied Artists |
His Majesty O'Keefe |
Byron Haskin |
Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice, André Morell |
Adventure |
Warner Bros. |
The House in the Middle |
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Short subject |
12-minute film on Civil Defense |
Human Desire |
Fritz Lang |
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford |
Suspense |
Columbia |
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome |
Kenneth Anger |
Anaïs Nin |
Drama |
38-minute film |
It Should Happen to You |
George Cukor |
Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon |
Comedy |
Lemmon's first film |
Jail Bait |
Ed Wood |
Dolores Fuller, Steve Reeves |
Drama |
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Johnny Dark |
George Sherman |
Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie |
Drama |
Universal |
Johnny Guitar |
Nicholas Ray |
Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Ernest Borgnine, Ward Bond |
Western |
Republic |
Killers from Space |
W. Lee Wilder |
Peter Graves, James Seay |
Sci-fi |
RKO |
King Richard and the Crusaders |
David Butler |
Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders |
Adventure |
Warner Bros. |
Knock on Wood |
Melvin Frank, Norman Panama |
Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling |
Comedy |
Paramount |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
The Last Time I Saw Paris |
Richard Brooks |
Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor, Donna Reed |
Romance |
MGM |
A Life at Stake |
Paul Guilfoyle |
Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglas Dumbrille |
Film noir |
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Little School Mouse |
Hanna-Barbera |
Tom and Jerry |
Animation |
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Living It Up |
Norman Taurog |
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh |
Comedy |
11th Martin and Lewis film, Paramount |
The Lone Gun |
Ray Nazarro |
George Montgomery, Dorothy Malone |
Western |
United Artists |
The Long, Long Trailer |
Vincente Minnelli |
Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz |
Comedy |
MGM |
The Long Wait |
Victor Saville |
Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Peggie Castle |
Drama |
United Artists |
Loophole |
Harold Schuster |
Barry Sullivan, Dorothy Malone, Charles McGraw |
Film noir |
Monogram |
Lucky Me |
Jack Donohue |
Doris Day, Phil Silvers |
Musical |
Warner Bros. |
The Mad Magician |
John Brahm |
Vincent Price, Eva Gabor |
Thriller |
Columbia |
Magic Brush |
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Animation |
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Make Haste to Live |
William A. Seiter |
Dorothy McGuire, Stephen McNally |
Suspense |
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Magnificent Obsession |
Douglas Sirk |
Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger, Barbara Rush |
Drama |
Remake of 1935 film; Oscar nomination for Wyman |
Man with the Steel Whip |
Franklin Adreon |
Dick Simmons, Dale Van Sickel |
Serial |
Republic |
Men of the Fighting Lady |
Andrew Marton |
Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Frank Lovejoy |
War |
MGM |
Monster from the Ocean Floor |
Wyott Ordung |
Anne Kimbell, Stuart Wade |
Science fiction |
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Naked Alibi |
Jerry Hopper |
Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry |
Crime drama |
Universal |
The Naked Jungle |
Byron Haskin |
Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker |
Adventure |
Paramount |
Night People |
Nunnally Johnson |
Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Bjork, Rita Gam, Walter Abel, Buddy Ebsen |
Drama |
20th Century Fox |
On the Waterfront |
Elia Kazan |
Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, Lee J. Cobb |
Drama |
based on novel by Budd Schulberg; Oscars for Brando, Saint, Best Picture |
The Other Woman |
Hugo Haas |
Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas |
Drama |
RKO |
The Outcast |
William Witney |
John Derek, Joan Evans, Jim Davis |
Western |
Republic |
Paid to Kill |
Montgomery Tully |
Dane Clark, Thea Gregory |
Drama |
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Phantom of the Rue Morgue |
Roy Del Ruth |
Karl Malden, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina |
Mystery |
Warner Bros.; based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe |
Phantom Stallion |
Harry Keller |
Rex Allen, Carla Balenda |
Western |
Republic |
Phffft! |
Mark Robson |
Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson |
Romantic comedy |
Columbia |
Pride of the Blue Grass |
William Beaudine |
Lloyd Bridges, Vera Miles |
Drama |
Allied Artists |
Prince Valiant |
Henry Hathaway |
James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner |
Adventure |
20th Century Fox; based on the comic strip |
Princess of the Nile |
Harmon Jones |
Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie |
Adventure |
20th Century Fox |
Prisoner of War |
Andrew Marton |
Ronald Reagan, Steve Forrest, Oscar Homolka |
War drama |
MGM |
Private Hell 36 |
Don Siegel |
Ida Lupino, Howard Duff |
Drama |
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Pushover |
Richard Quine |
Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak, Philip Carey, Dorothy Malone |
Film noir |
Columbia; Novak's 1st film |
The Raid |
Hugo Fregonese |
Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin |
Western |
20th Century Fox |
Rear Window |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Grace Kelly, James Stewart, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr |
Suspense |
Universal, 4 Oscar nominations |
Red Garters |
George Marshall |
Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell, Gene Barry |
Musical |
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Return to Treasure Island |
Ewald André Dupont |
Tab Hunter, Dawn Addams, Porter Hall |
Adventure |
United Artists |
Rhapsody |
Charles Vidor |
Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman |
Drama |
MGM |
Ride Clear of Diablo |
Jesse Hibbs |
Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Susan Cabot, Russell Johnson |
Western |
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Ring of Fear |
James Edward Grant |
Clyde Beatty, Mickey Spillane, Pat O'Brien |
Mystery |
Warner Bros. |
Riot in Cell Block 11 |
Don Siegel |
Neville Brand, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon |
Drama |
Allied Artists |
River of No Return |
Otto Preminger |
Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun |
Western |
20th Century Fox |
Robinson Crusoe |
Luis Buñuel |
Dan O'Herlihy |
Adventure |
from Daniel Defoe novel |
The Rocket Man |
Oscar Rudolph |
Charles Coburn, Anne Francis |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
Rogue Cop |
Roy Rowland |
Robert Taylor, George Raft, Janet Leigh |
Film noir |
MGM |
Rose Marie |
Mervyn LeRoy |
Ann Blyth, Howard Keel |
Musical |
remake of 1928, 1936 films |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
Sabrina |
Billy Wilder |
Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden |
Romantic comedy |
Paramount; 6 Oscar nominations; remade in 1995 |
Salt of the Earth |
Herbert J. Biberman |
Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer |
Drama |
subject of One of the Hollywood Ten |
Saskatchewan |
Raoul Walsh |
Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, J. Carrol Naish |
Western |
Universal |
Satan's Waitin' |
Friz Freleng |
Looney Tunes |
Animation |
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Secret of the Incas |
Jerry Hopper |
Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Nicole Maurey |
Adventure |
Paramount |
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
Stanley Donen |
Howard Keel, Jane Powell, Russ Tamblyn, Jeff Richards, Julie Newmar, Ruta Lee |
Musical |
MGM, 5 Oscar nominations |
She Couldn't Say No |
Lloyd Bacon |
Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons |
Comedy |
Bacon's final film |
Shield for Murder |
Edmond O'Brien |
Edmond O'Brien, Marla English, John Agar |
Film noir |
United Artists |
Sign of the Pagan |
Douglas Sirk |
Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler |
Adventure |
Universal |
Silent Raiders |
Richard Bartlett |
Richard Bartlett |
War |
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The Silver Chalice |
Victor Saville |
Paul Newman, Virginia Mayo |
Drama |
Warner Bros.; first film for Newman |
Silver Lode |
Allan Dwan |
Dan Duryea, John Payne, Lizabeth Scott |
Western |
RKO |
Sitting Bull |
Sidney Salkow |
Dale Robertson, Mary Murphy |
Western |
United Artists |
Smarty Cat |
Hanna-Barbera |
Tom and Jerry |
Animation |
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The Snow Creature |
W. Lee Wilder |
Paul Langton |
Science fiction |
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Stamp Day for Superman |
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George Reeves |
Short subject |
Film from U.S. Treasury Dept. |
A Star Is Born |
George Cukor |
Judy Garland, James Mason, Charles Bickford, Jack Carson, Tommy Noonan |
Musical |
remake of 1937 film; 6 Oscar nominations; remade in 1976 |
The Steel Cage |
Walter Doniger |
Maureen O'Sullivan, Lawrence Tierney |
Drama |
United Artists |
The Student Prince |
Richard Thorpe |
Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern, Edmund Gwenn |
Musical |
MGM; vocals by Mario Lanza; based on the operetta |
Suddenly |
Lewis Allen |
Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Gates |
Crime drama |
United Artists |
Susan Slept Here |
Frank Tashlin |
Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis |
Romantic comedy |
RKO; Powell's final film |
Tanganyika |
André de Toth |
Van Heflin, Ruth Roman, Howard Duff |
Action |
Universal |
Target Earth |
Sherman Rose |
Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley |
Sci-fi |
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Taza, Son of Cochise |
Douglas Sirk |
Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Rex Reason |
Western |
Universal |
Tennessee Champ |
Fred M. Wilcox |
Shelley Winters, Keenan Wynn |
Drama |
MGM |
Them! |
Gordon Douglas |
James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn |
Science fiction |
Warner Bros. |
There's No Business Like Show Business |
Walter Lang |
Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray |
Musical |
20th Century Fox; 3 Academy Award nominations |
Three Coins in the Fountain |
Jean Negulesco |
Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Rossano Brazzi |
Drama |
20th Century Fox; Oscars for Cinematography and Song |
Three Young Texans |
Henry Levin |
Jeffrey Hunter, Keefe Brasselle, Mitzi Gaynor |
Western |
20th Century Fox |
Top Banana |
Alfred E. Green |
Phil Silvers, Rose Marie |
Musical |
based on stage musical |
Track of the Cat |
William Wellman |
Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright |
Adventure |
Warner Bros. |
Trader Tom of the China Seas |
Franklin Adreon |
Harry Lauter, Lyle Talbot |
Serial |
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Valley of the Kings |
Robert Pirosh |
Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker |
Adventure |
MGM |
The Vanishing Prairie |
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Documentary |
Academy Award winner |
Vera Cruz |
Robert Aldrich |
Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Ernest Borgnine, Cesar Romero, Sara Montiel, Denise Darcel |
Western |
United Artists |
The Weak and the Wicked |
J. Lee Thompson |
Glynis Johns, Diana Dors |
Drama |
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White Christmas |
Michael Curtiz |
Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Vera-Ellen, Danny Kaye, Dean Jagger |
Musical |
Paramount; title song by Irving Berlin originally in 1942's Holiday Inn |
The White Orchid |
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William Lundigan, Peggie Castle |
Adventure |
United Artists |
Witness to Murder |
Roy Rowland |
Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders |
Suspense |
United Artists |
Woman's World |
Jean Negulesco |
Clifton Webb, June Allyson, Van Heflin |
Drama |
20th Century Fox |
World for Ransom |
Robert Aldrich |
Dan Duryea, Gene Lockhart |
Drama |
Allied Artists |
Wyoming Renegades |
Fred F. Sears |
Phil Carey, Gene Evans, Martha Hyer |
Western |
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The Yellow Tomahawk |
Lesley Selander |
Rory Calhoun, Peggie Castle |
Western |
United Artists |
Young at Heart |
Gordon Douglas |
Doris Day, Frank Sinatra |
Musical, Drama |
Warner Bros. |