Search results for "1953"
The Man from the Alamo

The Man from the Alamo

The Man from the Alamo
IMDb: 6.5
79

During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others’ families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and…

Genre: Western
Sangaree

Sangaree

Sangaree
IMDb: 6.5
94

Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.

Genre: Drama
Small Town Story

Small Town Story

Small Town Story
IMDb: 6.5
69

Canadian ex-serviceman Bob Regan returns to Oldchester, the English town where he was posted during the war. Meeting up with his friend Mike, now manager of the local football club,…

Genre: Drama
The Stranger Wore a Gun

The Stranger Wore a Gun

The Stranger Wore a Gun
IMDb: 5.9
83

Having been a spy for Quantrill’s raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows…

Genre: Action, Western
Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay
IMDb: 6.5
103

Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Woman They Almost Lynched

Woman They Almost Lynched

Woman They Almost Lynched
IMDb: 6.7
90

Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they’re prepared to hang any troublemaker,…

Genre: Western
Those Redheads from Seattle

Those Redheads from Seattle

Those Redheads from Seattle
IMDb: 5.8
90

A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.

Genre: Western
The Simple Things

The Simple Things

The Simple Things
IMDb: 6.6
7

Mickey and Pluto go fishing. Pluto has a run-in with a clam, who eventually lodges in Pluto’s mouth; Mickey thinks the clam is Pluto’s tongue and can’t understand why Pluto…

The Square Ring

The Square Ring

The Square Ring
IMDb: 6.3
83

Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

Genre: Drama
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
IMDb: 6.8
89

Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart’s existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the…

The Captain’s Paradise

The Captain’s Paradise

The Captain’s Paradise
IMDb: 6.9
94

Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized – a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Wife

Wife

Wife
IMDb: 6.9
96

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband’s lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can’t treat herself and the husband finds the…

Genre: Drama
The Sword and the Rose

The Sword and the Rose

The Sword and the Rose
IMDb: 6.5
92

Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to…

Genre: Drama, History
City of Bad Men

City of Bad Men

City of Bad Men
IMDb: 6.1
81

Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.

Genre: Western
Girl on the Run

Girl on the Run

Girl on the Run
IMDb: 5.2
64

A hootchy-kootchy whodunit set at a small seedy carnival where a reporter tries to discover who killed his boss while his girlfriend inexplicably joins the burlesque show!

Genre: Crime, Mystery
City Beneath the Sea

City Beneath the Sea

City Beneath the Sea
IMDb: 5.5
87

Two adventures dive for treasure off the coast of Jamaica.

Genre: Action, Adventure
The Girls of Pleasure Island

The Girls of Pleasure Island

The Girls of Pleasure Island
IMDb: 6
95

In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria,…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Private Eyes

Private Eyes

Private Eyes
IMDb: 6.2
64

After being punched in the nose, Sach finds out that he has the ability to read minds. Slip and the gang start up a detective agency try to cash in…

Genre: Comedy
The System

The System

The System
IMDb: 6.5
90

A gambling boss is pressured by the law and press when a crusade is started against him after one of his collectors becomes a killer.

Genre: Crime
The Long Memory

The Long Memory

The Long Memory
IMDb: 6.9
96

1953 British noir thriller, starring John Mills. An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court. Based on…

Genre: Crime
The Kidnappers

The Kidnappers

The Kidnappers
IMDb: 7.1
93

A Scotsman, Jim MacKenzie, living on a primitive homestead in Nova Scotia, is raising his two grandsons, Harry and Davy, following the death of their father in the Boer War….

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
The Good Beginning

The Good Beginning

The Good Beginning
IMDb: 6.7
62

After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day with her…

Genre: Drama
The Last Posse

The Last Posse

The Last Posse
IMDb: 6.6
73

A posse’s pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.

Genre: Western
The Clown

The Clown

The Clown
IMDb: 6.7
91

Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn, is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking. His son Little Dink idolizes Dodo and…

Genre: Drama
Hot News

Hot News

Hot News
IMDb: 5.6
61

An ex-prize fighter — now reporter — tries to expose a gambling ring after an uneven bout in the ring kills a pugilist.

Genre: Crime, Drama
It’s a Grand Life

It’s a Grand Life

It’s a Grand Life
IMDb: 6.5
102

Classic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private, played by music hall legend Frank Randle in his final screen role, as he attempts to rescue a Corporal (played by icon…

Genre: Comedy
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?

Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?

Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
IMDb: 5.9
78

Based on a 1944 West End stage success with Ralph Lynn, this is a classic bedroom farce for those who like them that way — its theatrical origins acknowledged in…

Genre: Comedy
The Man Behind The Gun

The Man Behind The Gun

The Man Behind The Gun
IMDb: 6
82

This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionists. Also starring Patrice Wymore, Roy Roberts,…

Genre: Western
Northern Patrol

Northern Patrol

Northern Patrol
IMDb: 6.2
64

Northern Patrol was the last entry in Monogram/Allied Artists’ off-and-on “Northwest Mountie” series. Taking time off from his Sky King shooting schedule, Kirby Grant stars as mounted policeman Rod Webb,…

Genre: Western
Topeka

Topeka

Topeka
IMDb: 7.4
69

Bill Elliot emulates his idol William S. Hart in the superior western Topeka. Elliot plays the archetypal Good Bad Man, hired to kick the crooked element out of a small…

Genre: Western
Malta Story

Malta Story

Malta Story
IMDb: 6.5
97

In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines….

Genre: Drama, History, War
Big Leaguer

Big Leaguer

Big Leaguer
IMDb: 5.9
71

John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22 year old hopefuls to pick the best for a minor league…

Genre: Drama
Angel Face

Angel Face

Angel Face
IMDb: 7.3
92

An ambulance driver gets involved with a rich girl that might have a darker side.

The Naked Spur

The Naked Spur

The Naked Spur
IMDb: 7.4
91

Howard Kemp has been tracking killer Ben Vandergroat for a long time. In the Colorado Rockies, he teams up with prospector Jesse Tate and former Union soldier Roy Anderson. Thinking…

The Eddie Cantor Story

The Eddie Cantor Story

The Eddie Cantor Story
IMDb: 5.7
115

Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.

Genre: Drama, Music
Man on a Tightrope

Man on a Tightrope

Man on a Tightrope
IMDb: 7.1
105

Elia Kazan’s 1953 film stars Fredric March as the owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia who plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Safari Drums

Safari Drums

Safari Drums
IMDb: 5.5
71

The eighth entry in the “Bomba The Jungle Boy” series, from 1953, starring Johnny Sheffield, Douglas Kennedy, Barbara Bestar, Leonard Mudie and Emory Parnell. Directed by Ford Beebe.

Genre: Adventure
Folly to be Wise

Folly to be Wise

Folly to be Wise
IMDb: 6.2
91

A newly-arrived army padre is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from…

Genre: Comedy
She’s Back on Broadway

She’s Back on Broadway

She’s Back on Broadway
IMDb: 5.9
95

When Catherine Terris’s career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs…Broadway! She takes the lead in a play which is being…

Genre: Comedy
South Sea Woman

South Sea Woman

South Sea Woman
IMDb: 6.4
99

Marine Sergeant James O’Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify…