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Best Movies of 1953

Movie Mirrors

by Sanderson Beck

Movie Mirrors Introduction

Abbreviations
 Title

Min.

c S M H P V En Ed
 Band Wagon, The 112   8  8  8  7  6  6  5
 Beggar’s Opera, The 94   7  6  5    4  6  6
 Big Heat, The 89   7  6  6  7  7  6  5
 Calamity Jane 101  c 7 6  6  5 6 6 5
 Captain's Paradise, The 87  b 6 5 7 6  6  5
 Cruel Sea, The 117  b 8 7 6 6 6  6  6
 Desert Rats 88  b 6 6 6 7 6  6  6
 Earrings of Madame de…, The (French) 100  b 8 8 5 7 8  7  7
 From Here to Eternity 118  b 8 8 7 9 8  8  8
 Gate of Hell (Japanese) 86  c 7 7 5 7 7  6  6
 Genevieve 86  c 8 7 8 6 6  6  5
 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 91  c 6 6 5 3 6  6  5
 Heart of the Matter, The 104  b 7 6 5  5  6
 Hondo 83  c 7 6 5 7 6  6  5
 Houdini 106  c 6 5 5 6 5  6  6
 How to Marry a Millionaire 95  c 5 6 6 5 5  6  5
 I Confess 95  b 5 5 6 5 5  6  6
 Julius Caesar 120  b 6 7 6 7 7  7  8
 Kiss Me Kate 109  c 7 7 6 5 6  6  5
 Lili 81  c 7 7 5 7 6  5 6
 Lion Is In the Streets, A 88  c 6 5 5 6 6  6  6
 Little Boy Lost 95  b 7 6 4 5  5  6
 Man Between, The 102  b 7 6 5  6  6
 Man on a Tightrope 105  b 5 5 5 5  6  6
 Martin Luther 84  b 5  4  5  7
 Mogambo 115  c 6 7 5 5 6  6  5
 Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (French) 87  b 8 6 8  6  6
 Naked Spur, The 91  c 6 7 5 8 7  6  4
 Niagara 89  c 6 6 7  7  5
 99 River Street 83  b 7 6 5   4  6  4
 Pickup on South Street 80  b 5 7 6  6  5
 Robe, The 133  c 5 6 6 7 5  7  8
 Roman Holiday 118  b 8 7 6 9 7  8  7
 Salome 103  c 5 5 4 3  7  7
 Sawdust and Tinsel (Swedish) 86  b 6 8 5 6 6  6  6
 Seminole 87  c 5 5 4  5  6
 Shane 118  c 8 8 7 9 8  7  7
 So Big 101  b 6 6 4  6  6
 Stalag 17 120  b 8 8 6 9 8  7  7
 Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, The 105  c 7 7 5  6  6
 Story of Three Loves, The 122  c 6 6 4  5  6
 Summer with Monika (Swedish) 96  b 6 7 5 3 5  5  6
 Thunder Bay 103  c 5 6 5 6 6  6  5
 Titanic 98  b 6 6 5 6 6  6  7
 Titfield Thunderbolt, The 84  c 8 6 7  6  5
 Tokyo Story (Japanese) 130  b 8 8 8 9 8  7  8
 Ugetsu Monogatari (Japanese) 96  b 7 7 5 8 7  6  6
 Vitelloni, I (Italian) 108  b 8 8 4  6 7
 Wages of Fear (French) 147  b 8 7 7 9 8  7 6
 War of the Worlds, The 85  c 6 6 5 7 7  6 5
 Wild One, The 79  b 7 7 6 6 7  6 5
 Young Bess 112  c 7 6 5  7 7

Abbreviations
b = black and white
c = color
S = Scheuer's rating
M = Maltin's rating
H = Halliwell's rating
P = Martin & Porter's rating
V = Videohound's rating
En = Beck's entertainment value
Ed = Beck's educational value

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