An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1953
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953) Lew Landers, Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance, Alan Hale Jr.
Captain John Smith (Anthony Dexter), returned from the Jamestown colony, is telling his story before Read More »
Young Bess (1953) George Sidney, Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr
The mother died under the executioner’s axe; the daughter rose to become England’s greatest monarch Read More »
Jack Slade (1953) Harold D. Schuster, Mark Stevens, Dorothy Malone, Barton MacLane
A twelve year old Joey Slade sees his father gunned down in front of him Read More »
What Is Your Name? Part II AKA Kimi no na wa: Dainibu (1953) Hideo Ôba, Keiko Awaji, Chikage Awashima, Kimie Hayashi
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge Read More »
What Is Your Name? AKA Kimi no na wa (1953) Hideo Ôba, Keiko Awaji, Chikage Awashima, Haruyo Ichikawa
Machiko and Haruki are not allowed to meet. When at last they find each other, Haruki has to part for Europe. Read More »
The Wages Of Fear AKA Le salaire de la peur (1953) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck
In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission Read More »
The Moon Is Blue (1953) Otto Preminger, William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara
Successful architect Don Gresham (William Holden) engages a young actress Read More »
The System (1953) Lewis Seiler, Frank Lovejoy, Joan Weldon, Robert Arthur
Gambler John Merrick (Frank Lovejoy) is the head of a bookie syndicate and the newspaper Read More »
Cow Country (1953) Lesley Selander, Edmond O’Brien, Helen Westcott, Robert Lowery
A “big” western by Allied Artists standards, Cow Country is directed with his usual panache by horse-opera expert Lesley Selander. Read More »
It’s a Grand Life (1953) John E. Blakeley, Frank Randle, Diana Dors, Dan Young
Classic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private Read More »
The Devil Is a Woman AKA La Lupa (1953) Alberto Lattuada, Kerima, Ettore Manni, May Britt
A woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young soldier. Read More »
Little Boy Lost (1953) George Seaton, Bing Crosby, Claude Dauphin, Christian Fourcade
A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WWII married a French girl Read More »
Split Second (1953) Dick Powell, Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling
Sam Hurley, “Nation’s No. 1 killer” with a cold contempt for “heroes,” escapes prison with two companions Read More »
The Great Game (1953) Maurice Elvey, James Hayter, Thora Hird, Diana Dors
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical Read More »