In this drama, the manager of “The Quiet Woman,” a coastal inn, finds herself falling in love with a smuggler. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1951
Toto and the King of Rome AKA Totò e i re di Roma (1951) Mario Monicelli, Steno, Totò, Aroldo Tieri, Alberto Sordi
Ercole Pappalardo (Totò), married, five daughters, lives with only dream to be upgraded Read More »
The Bonnadieu House AKA La maison Bonnadieu (1951) Carlo Rim, Danielle Darrieux, Bernard Blier, Françoise Arnoul
Danielle Darrieux is perfect as a two bit Bovary bourgeois lady who kills time with her lover Read More »
Hurricane Island (1951) Lew Landers, Jon Hall, Marie Windsor, Romo Vincent
Ponce de Leon searches for the Fountain of Youth, but it’s not an easy quest Read More »
Royal Wedding (1951) Stanley Donen, Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford
Tom and Ellen Bowen are a brother and sister dance act whose show closes in New York. Read More »
The Lady and the Bandit (1951) Ralph Murphy, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, Suzanne Dalbert
While escaping from the police, English highwayman Dick Turpin meets Joyce Greene. Read More »
The Prowler (1951) Joseph Losey, Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
In a fancy suburb in California, the gorgeous housewife Susan Gilvray finds a prowler Read More »
The Road to Hell AKA Camino del infierno (1951) Miguel Morayta, Pedro Armendáriz, Leticia Palma, Ramón Gay
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage Read More »
Kekec (1951) Joze Gale, Matija Barl, Frane Milcinski, Franc Presetnik
In an alpine valley lies an idyllic village. High up in the mountains, facing each others Read More »
O.K. Nero AKA O.K. Nerone (1951) Mario Soldati, Carlo Campanini, Walter Chiari, Silvana Pampanini
Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome Read More »
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina
This a film version of the opera “The Tales of Hoffmann”, however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. Read More »
Encore (1951) Harold French, Pat Jackson, Nigel Patrick, Roland Culver, Alison Leggatt
The film is made from three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham. The first, “The Ant and the Grasshopper” concerns the trials Read More »
Pool of London (1951) Basil Dearden, Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renée Asherson
Crime melodrama about two sailors in London, an American open to theft Read More »
Good Enough to Eat AKA Une fille à croquer (1951) Raoul André, Gaby Morlay, Serge Reggiani, Louise Carletti
Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels Read More »
Belle Le Grand (1951) Allan Dwan, Vera Ralston, John Carroll, William Ching
Upon her release from prison for a murder she didn’t commit Read More »