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1951
Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared
Adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investi…
1951
The Basketball Fix
A college basketball star collaborrates with organized crime and becomes involved in 'poin…
1951
The Bushwhackers
Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil…
1951
The Franchise Affair
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by…
1951
The Hoodlum
Vincent Lubeck is a vicious ex-convict. His criminal activities are despised by his family…
1951
The Idiot
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled…
1951
The Painted Hills
After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to disc…
1951
The Story of Time
Mankind's numerous ways of measuring the passage of time through history are depicted thro…
1951
Three Guys Named Mike
A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and…
1951
Unknown World
With the cyclotram, an atomic-powered rock-boring vehicle, Dr. Jerimiah Morley leads an ex…
1951
Vengeance Valley
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the…
1952
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save…
1952
Battles of Chief Pontiac
In pre-Revolutionary America, the efforts of a Colonial officer trying to broker a peace d…
1952
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
The entertainment duo Mitchell & Petrillo, en route to a USO show for troops in Guam, fall…
1952
Castle in the Air
The owner of a Scottish castle discovers that it is haunted by the spirit of a beautiful w…
1952
Chained for Life
A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convict…
1952
Heidi
Heidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swi…
1952
I Dream of Jeanie
The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.
1952
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic pos…
1952
Jack and the Beanstalk
Two down-on-their-luck loafers take a job babysitting, with a bedtime story of the titular…
1952
Kansas City Confidential
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
1952
Love Island
US-Navy pilot Lt. Richard Tabor crash-lands on a south Pacific isle called Love Island in…
1952
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Rile…
1952
Mutiny
Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blocka…
1952
Road to Bali
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dan…
1952
The Big Trees
In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and mak…
1952
The Green Glove
In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collabora…
1952
The Life of Oharu
During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page sig…
1952
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way thro…
1952
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safar…
1952
Zombies of the Stratosphere
Martians come to Earth to build an H-bomb strong enough to blast Earth out of orbit so tha…
1953
A Tale of Two Cities
A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. Set against the conditions le…
1953
Beat the Devil
A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
1953
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast…
1953
Captain Scarface
A group of communist spies plan to blow up an essential commercial artery, the Panama Cana…
1953
Captain Scarlett
Captain Scarlett rescues Princess Maria from being abducted while travelling. She's not ex…
1953
Decameron Nights
Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and…
1953
Fear and Desire
After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to fin…
1953
Gate of Hell
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa du…
1953
Glen or Glenda
Glen doesn't dare tell his fiancée Barbara that he is a transvestite; in addition, Alan is…
1953
Kansas Pacific
Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to pre…
1953
King Lear
In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters…
1953
Man in the Attic
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a…
1953
Martin Luther
A biopic of Martin Luther, covering his life between 1505 and 1530, and the birth of the P…
1953
Mesa of Lost Women
A mad scientist, Dr. Aranya (Jackie Coogan), has created giant spiders in his Mexican lab…
1953
Phantom from Space
After a UFO sighting, a mysterious phantom in a bizarre outfit starts attacking people in…
1953
Planet Outlaws
A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 year…
1953
Silent Night: The Story of the Christmas Carol
13-minute documentary taking a look at the song "Silent Night" from the time it was writte…
1953
The Bigamist
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the…
1953
The Conquest of Everest
A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zeala…
The Elf and Mr. Little
A Christmas Marionette Short Film.
1953
The Hitch-Hiker
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up tu…
1953
The Joe Louis Story
The life and career of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, who held the title for 12 years--lo…
1953
The Limping Man
An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has becom…
The Secret Cave
Story of what happens to village stream when diverted by young boys who discover its sourc…
1953
The Three Little Pups
In this variation on "The Three Little Pigs", Droopy and his brothers, Snoopy and Loopy, r…
1953
Tokyo Story
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside vi…
1953
Ugetsu
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group o…
1954
Carnival Story
In search of a better life, a German girl named Willi joins an American carnival passing t…
1954
Crash of Moons
A three-part episode from the TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger edited together and rele…