| Title |
Min. |
c | S | M | H | P | V | En | Ed |
| Affair In Trinidad | 98 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Angel Face | 91 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Appointment in London | 92 | b | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
| April In Paris | 100 | c | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Because You’re Mine | 103 | c | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Belle of New York, The | 82 | c | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Belles on Their Toes | 89 | c | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Big Sky, The | 138 | b | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Big Trees, The | 89 | c | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Dreamboat | 83 | b | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Iron Mistress, The | 110 | c | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Kansas City Confidential | 99 | b | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Light Touch, The | 93 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Lone Star | 94 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Lovely to Look At | 103 | c | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Marrying Kind, The | 92 | b | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Member of the Wedding, The | 91 | b | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| Million Dollar Mermaid | 110 | c | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| On Dangerous Ground | 82 | b | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| One Minute to Zero | 105 | b | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| Phone Call from a Stranger | 96 | b | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Pride of St. Louis, The | 93 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| Prisoner of Zenda, The | 101 | c | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Rancho Notorious | 89 | c | 7 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Red Ball Express | 83 | b | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
| Ruby Gentry | 82 | b | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Scandal Sheet | 82 | b | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Son of Paleface | 95 | c | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| Springfield Rifle | 93 | c | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | |
| Sudden Fear | 110 | b | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | |
| Thunder in the East | 97 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Turning Point, The | 85 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
| What Price Glory? | 110 | c | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| When in Rome | 78 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Winning Team, The | 98 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| World In His Arms, The | 104 | b | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
(1952 b 98’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Inspector Smythe (Torin Thatcher) tells entertainer Chris Emery (Rita Hayworth) that her husband was murdered, and she agrees to help get evidence on wealthy Max Fabian (Alexander Scourby). Her brother-in-law Steve Emery (Glenn Ford) arrives and falls in love with her but is suspicious of her and Fabian.
This romantic crime drama with the seductive Rita symbolizes the sordid prostitution rampant on the island that had two American military bases. Hayworth in her comeback lessened her taxes by setting up a phony production company. The maid Dominique (Juanita Moore) portrays the uncanny spiritual qualities of West Indians.
(1952 b 91’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Young and beautiful Diana (Jean Simmons) and her father (Herbert Marshall) are not getting along well with his second wife Catherine (Barbara O’Neil), who is wealthy. Diana meets Frank (Robert Mitchum) and lures him away from his girlfriend Mary (Mona Freeman) into her life and will do anything to keep him from leaving her.
This film-noir keeps the audience guessing as skeptical Frank is trapped despite his various defenses. As a movie fantasy meant to entertain the motivations need only be plausible even when they are insane.
(1952 b 92’) En: 5 Ed: 5
Wing-Commander Tim Mason (Dirk Bogarde) has flown 87 bombing missions, and Group Captain Logan (Ian Hunter) orders him to retire from flying; but Tim wants to go on and meets the pretty widow Eve Canyon (Dinah Sheridan), whom the American Major Mac Baker (William Sylvester) is also courting.
The war drama realistically portrays a British bomber squadron in its dangerous, destructive, and deadly work aimed at winning the war against Germany.
(1952 c 100’) En: 5 Ed: 4
State Department official S. Winthrop Putnam (Ray Bolger) mistakenly chooses chorus girl “Dynamite” Jackson (Doris Day) to go to a cultural exchange in Paris. On the voyage they fall in love and think they get married but have difficulty.
This musical comedy of errors satirizes bureaucratic government in the era of McCarthyist investigations while entertaining with romantic songs and dance.
(1952 c 103’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Opera star Renaldo Rossano (Mario Lanza) is drafted, but Sergeant Batterson (James Whitmore) loves opera and has a sister Bridget (Doretta Morrow) who can sing. Despite jealous Francesca (Rita Corday), Renaldo naturally falls for Bridget.
This musical comedy satirizes how army sergeants can manipulate their officers, but ultimately the General’s wife (Spring Byington) has the most pull. The draft and the role of the United Nations reflects the current Korean War. The plot also foreshadows what would happen with Elvis Presley.
(1952 c 82’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Based on C. M. S. McLellan’s 1897 play, Charlie Hill (Fred Astaire) likes women but not weddings. He and his lawyer Max Ferris (Keenan Wynn) are bailed out by his rich aunt (Marjorie Main). Then Charlie meets pretty welfare worker Angela (Vera-Ellen), and he is dancing on air.
This musical comedy portrays a more innocent age when unescorted women drinking champagne is considered scandalous. This fantasy allows a man to play with women while escaping any responsibility. Finally he meets one who is so good that he cannot resist her.
(1952 c 89’) En: 5 Ed: 5
Based on Ernestine Gilbreth Carey’s book, widowed Lillian Gilbreth (Myrna Loy) raises eleven children with help from Tom (Hoagy Carmichael) and overcomes sexist discrimination by Sam Harper (Edward Arnold) while Ann (Jeanne Crain), Ernestine (Barbara Bates), and Martha (Debra Paget) experience romance.
This comedy portrays the fun and challenges of a large family in the 1920s. The bigoted attitudes of men toward a professional woman show how much progress has been made since then.
(1952 b 138’) En: 5 Ed: 5
Based on a novel by A. B. Guthrie Jr., hunters Jim Deakins (Kirk Douglas) and Boone Caudill (Dewey Martin) find Boone’s uncle Zeb Calloway (Arthur Hunnicutt) and go with him up the Missouri River with a Blackfoot princess (Elizabeth Threatt) to trade for furs.
This western set in 1832 portrays an era when the white men could still find country where enough furs still remained for lucrative trading. Zeb’s experience and humor provide understanding of the Indians for the competitive young men.
(1952 c 89) En: 5 Ed: 5
Greedy manipulator Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) teams up with Yukon Burns (Edgar Buchanan) to exploit a new 1900 law and take redwoods from homesteading Quakers; but Jim falls in love with widow Chadwick (Eve Miller) and changes sides to oppose the ruthless exploiters while his former girlfriend Daisy (Patrice Wymore), worn out by Jim’s lack of commitment, goes the other way.
This romantic adventure applies the usual Hollywood pressure to make peaceful people turn to righteous violence in dramatic situations. The story is similar to the 1938 film Valley of the Giants.
A college professor (Clifton Webb) with a past as a matinee idol and the co-star of Gloria Marlowe (Ginger Rogers) sues to keep his old movies off television while he is pursued by the amorous college president (Elsa Lanchester); his intellectual daughter (Anne Francis) finds romance.
This farce satirizes the exaggerated action and romance of silent movies and their exploitation on television by crass advertisers as compared to the more intellectual value of literature.
(1952 c 110’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Adapted from Paul Wellman’s novel, Jim Bowie (Alan Ladd) falls in love with Judalon de Bornay (Virginia Mayo) in New Orleans. He becomes rich by winning a horse race and investing in cotton. After inventing a large knife he is eventually rescued from a sequence of duels and violence by Ursula de Varamendi (Phyllis Kirk) of San Antonio.
This mostly fictional adventure dramatizes some of the violence in Bowie’s life that occurred during a duel and makes him appear to be a hero rather than the fighter who became wealthy by selling slaves he illegally purchased from the pirate Lafitte before developing the sugar industry.
(1952 b 99’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Laid-off cop Tim Foster (Preston Foster) gets three criminals to rob a bank with masks so that none can betray him or each other; but veteran Joe Rolfe (John Payne) is arrested for questioning and decides to clear his name by tracking down the criminals. When he does, Tim’s daughter Helen (Coleen Gray) becomes involved.
This film-noir dramatizes how conflicts between criminals bring about their downfall while an innocent man manages to survive and find love.
(1952 b 93’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Sam Conride (Stewart Granger) steals a religious painting, but he tells his partner Felix Guignol (George Sanders) it was burned. Sam hires Anna Vasarri (Pier Angeli) to paint a copy and marries her to seal the deal. The plans of various thieves and greedy collectors get confused, and detective Lt. Massiro (Joseph Calleia) tries to get the original back for the church.
This somewhat romantic crime drama features the cynical wit of Felix, showing that there is little honor among thieves; but the goodness of the young Italian Anna symbolizes redemptive grace.
(1952 b 94’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) sends Devereaux Burke (Clark Gable) to persuade Sam Houston (Moroni Olsen) to favor the annexation of Texas; but Thomas Craden (Broderick Crawford) likes Texas as a republic. Burke falls in love with newspaper editor Martha Ronda (Ava Gardner).
This romantic western fictionalizes a critical episode when Houston negotiated the annexation of Texas with some complicated political maneuvering that brought it into the United States as a slave state and led to a war with Mexico which is treated in this film with cowboy patriotism.
(1952 c 103’) En: 5 Ed: 4
In this version of the Harbach-Kern play and the 1935 film Roberta, singer Tony Naylor (Howard Keel), comedian Al Marsh (Red Skelton), and dancer Jerry Ralby (Gower Champion) get help from dancer Bubbles (Ann Miller) to go to Paris where they fall in love with fashion businesswomen Stephanie (Kathryn Grayson) and Clarisse (Marge Champion).
This musical comedy contrasts the over-confidence of the egotistical Tony with the bumbling Al, but the former’s voice and the latter’s humor provide entertainment along with the skilled dancing of the Champions and Miller.
(1952 b 92’) En: 5 Ed: 5
A judge (Madge Kennedy) asks Florrie (Judy Holiday) and Chet (Aldo Ray) to reconsider whether they want to divorce, and they tell her about what has happened in their seven years of marriage.
This realistic comedy-drama portrays a couple trying to learn how to get along with each other while they experience life’s challenges and tragedies. Knowing that divorce is possible, they are able to try again.
(1952 b 91’) En: 4 Ed: 5
Based on the novel and play by Carson McCullers, twelve-year-old Frankie Addams (Julie Harris) is looking forward to her brother’s wedding. The cook Berenice (Ethel Waters) says Frankie is jealous, and they spend much time talking with each other and their young neighbor John Henry (Brandon De Wilde). When Frankie tries to run away, a soldier tries to kiss her. She runs home and finds her life changing.
This realistic drama portrays a lonely girl who feels rejected by older girls and tries to find consolation with the cook and the young boy next door; but suddenly she finds that she must face life without them.
(1952 c 110’) En: 5 Ed: 5
Australian Annette Kellerman (Esther Williams) becomes an outstanding swimmer and goes to London with her musician father (Walter Pidgeon). They meet carnival manager James Sullivan (Victor Mature) and his partner Doc (Jesse White). Annette becomes a star entertainer and works at the New York Hippodrome for Alfred Harper (David Brian).
Although many specifics are fictionalized, this biopic is true to the spirit of the swimmer who led the way toward smaller swimsuits and pioneered water ballet in the early 20th century.
(1952 b 82’) En: 5 Ed: 5
Based on Gerald Butler’s novel, a tough cop (Robert Ryan) has a lonely life and takes it out on criminals until he sees how a vindictive man (Ward Bond) acts and meets a blind woman (Ida Lupino) who wants to protect her brother (Sumner Williams), a murderer.
This police drama explores the issue of police brutality by showing how cops can become cynical and hardened from relating with criminals so much. This detective trusts no one, but he is won over by a blind woman who says she has to trust everyone.
(1952 b 105’) En: 5 Ed: 5
In 1950 Col. Steve Janowski (Robert Mitchum) forces United Nations health worker Landa Day (Ann Blyth) to leave South Korea as the war erupts. Steve fights the invading Communists with help from Col. Joe Parker (William Talman), Capt. Ralston (Richard Egan), and Sgt. Baker (Charles McGraw) while falling in love with the war widow Day.
This romantic war drama portrays the beginning of the Korean War while it was still going. A war atrocity that massacred refugees is given context in the awful situation of a ruthless war. The Russian-backed North Koreans aggressively attack South Korea soon after it was established with UN-sponsored elections, but the Americans use their military might to equalize the equation of stalemate, where the cold war got hot.
(1952 b 96’) En: 5 Ed: 5
Lawyer David Trask (Gary Merrill) leaves his wife and takes a plane where he meets actress Bianca Carr (Shelley Winters), Dr. Robert Fortness (Michael Rennie), and salesman Eddie Hoke (Keenan Wynn), who give him their addresses. After the plane crashes, Trask calls and visits their spouses to try to bring them resolution.
This moral drama explores various problems in relationships and how understanding can come to some even after the separation by death. In the process the lawyer learns about love and realizes he can be reconciled as well.
(1952 b 93’) En: 5 Ed: 5
Uneducated baseball pitcher Dizzy Dean (Dan Dailey) marries Pat (Joanne Dru), and excels with the St. Louis Cardinals with his brother Paul (Richard Crenna); but both Deans suffer injuries and see their careers cut short. The eccentric Dizzy struggles and finally turns to baseball announcing.
This biopic tells the true story of the baseball legend whose boyish charm and zeal for baseball won the hearts of many. His wife helps him to face up to life’s challenges, and he learns to adapt to difficult changes.
(1952 c 101’) En: 5 Ed: 4
In this remake of the 1937 version of Anthony Hope’s novel, Rudolf Rassendyll (Stewart Granger) substitutes for alcoholic Rudolf V (Stewart Granger), falls in love with Princess Flavia (Deborah Kerr), and outwits Duke Michael (Robert Douglas) and Rupert of Hentzau (James Mason).
This look-alike fantasy is a romantic tale that once again allows the English to identify with an upstanding hero who fools the eastern Europeans.
(1952 c 89’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Vern Haskell (Arthur Kennedy) searches for the murderer of his fiancé and is drawn to Altar Keane (Marlene Dietrich), who won money gambling and has a ranch for outlaws. Vern finds her through arrested gunslinger Frenchy Fairmont (Mel Ferrer) and learns who the murderer is.
Fritz Lang directed this western with style, but it reflects the usual violence in a story of revenge, bank robberies, and murders.
(1952 b 83’) En: 5 Ed: 5
Lt. Campbell (Jeff Chandler) leads a team of army truckers supplying Patton’s advancing tank battalion in 1944 France. Sgt. Red Kallek (Alex Nichol) has a deep grudge against Campbell while writer Partridge (Charles Drake) is detoured by pretty Antoinette (Jacqueline Duval). Pvt. Wilson (Hugh O’Brian) clashes with Cpl. Robertson (Sidney Poitier), who is advised by Taffy (Bubber Johnson) how to get along.
This war adventure depicts how an army depends on its lines of supply and reflects a US military that was integrated by Truman after the war.
(1952 b 82’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Ruby (Jennifer Jones) is gorgeous but is a social outcast. She is in love with Boake Tackman (Charlton Heston), but he marries the well-to-do Tracy (Phyllis Avery). The banker Jim Gentry (Karl Malden) has taken care of Ruby. After his wife dies, he asks to marry Ruby. Tragedy leads to hateful behavior and a chain reaction of revenge.
This melodrama grovels in the worst attitudes in a rural Carolina town and shows how hate and vindictive actions destroy others and oneself.
(1952 b 82’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Based on Samuel Fuller’s novel, a tabloid editor (Broderick Crawford) is found by his wife (Rosemary DeCamp) he ditched years ago. He tries to hide her accidental death, but his ace reporter (John Derek) and his columnist girlfriend (Donna Reed) are covering the suspected murder story that is oddly discovered by an alcoholic ex-reporter (Henry O’Neill) the editor has abandoned.
This newspaper crime drama portrays a ruthless editor who exploits the troubles of others only to find that he has become one of those others.
(1952 c 95’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Harvard grad Paleface Potter Jr. (Bob Hope) arrives in the West to claim his inheritance but finds his father’s bill collectors instead. Roy Barton (Roger Rogers) is trying to catch the rich robber Mike the Torch (Jane Russell), who is after the Potter gold.
This sequel to the western farce is filled with gimmicks meant to entertain that pass the time in a wild romp that features Trigger’s tricks.
(1952 b 110’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Wealthy playwright Myra (Joan Crawford) rejects leading man Lester (Jack Palance) for her play and then falls in love with him and marries him. She discovers that he and Irene (Gloria Grahame) are plotting to kill her for her money and comes up with her own counter-plot.
This film-noir suddenly turns a happy marriage to fear with a sinister murder plot that attempts to thrill the audience with chilling scenes.
Wealthy playwright Myra (Joan Crawford) rejects leading man Lester (Jack Palance) for her play and then falls in love with him and marries him. She discovers that he and Irene (Gloria Grahame) are plotting to kill her for her money and comes up with her own counter-plot.
This film-noir suddenly turns a happy marriage to fear with a sinister murder plot that attempts to thrill the audience with chilling scenes.
(1952 b 97’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Based on Alan Moorehead’s novel, American arms dealer Steve Gibbs (Alan Ladd) arrives in a plane to sell arms to a Hindu kingdom before it is attacked by Muslims, but the nonviolent Prime Minister Singh (Charles Boyer) refuses to buy or use the arms he confiscates. Among the British who have lost their privileged situation is the blind Joan Willoughby (Deborah Kerr), who falls in love with Steve.
This melodrama crudely reflects American militarism masquerading as “defense” in a story that makes a man who opposes killing look ridiculous, providing blatant propaganda for the arms business during the Cold War.
(1952 b 85’) En: 5 Ed: 5
Lawyer John Conroy (Edmond O’Brien) is assigned to investigate organized crime and is assisted by his friend Jerry McKibbon (William Holden), a cynical reporter. John’s father Matt Conroy (Tom Tully) is a corrupt police officer, and Jerry tries to help him go straight. Jerry is attracted to John’s girlfriend Amanda Waycross (Alexis Smith). Neil Eichelberger (Ed Begley) is the vicious boss of a crime syndicate.
This crime drama pits an idealistic reformer against a violent mob and shows how a journalist can expose crime. The theme is stated in the line “Sometimes someone has to pay an exorbitant price to uphold the majesty of the law.”
(1952 c 110’) En: 5 Ed: 5
Loosely based on Maxwell Anderson’s play, Captain Flagg (James Cagney) and First Sergeant Quirt (Dan Dailey) squabble over the French Charmaine (Corinne Calvet) before and after a trip to the front in the useless World War I.
Under John Ford’s direction Anderson’s anti-war play becomes a comedy that celebrates machismo in wartime. The grim reality of war is the context for a friendly rivalry in womanizing and drinking and provides a nihilistic message in an entertaining fashion.
(1952 b 78’) En: 5 Ed: 5
The priest John Halligan (Van Johnson) and escaped convict Joe Brewster (Paul Douglas) meet on their way to Rome. Joe steals John’s identity, and a police investigator (Joseph Calleia) asks John to turn in Joe.
This religious comedy allows a priest to extend grace beyond the law to test a criminal who does not want to return to prison nor to do wrong either. The shift in roles allows each to see the perspective of the other.
(1952 b 98’) En: 5 Ed: 5
Grover Cleveland Alexander (Ronald Reagan) marries Aimee (Doris Day) and becomes an outstanding baseball pitcher while suffering from epilepsy and alcoholism.
This biopic is based on a true story but glamorizes the extent of the alcoholism; his wife divorced him twice and married him three times. After his major league career Alexander pitched for the House of David for four years.
(1952 c 104’) En: 5 Ed: 4
Based on Rex Beach’s novel, a captain (Gregory Peck) makes money catching seals and wants to buy Alaska from the Russians. He overcomes the thief Portugee (Anthony Quinn) and falls in love with a Russian countess (Ann Blyth), but he has to rescue her from being married to a Russian prince (Carl Esmond).
This adventure set in 1850 depicts an American hero triumphing over aristocratic Russians, who are blamed for slaughtering seals, reflecting the psychological desire to see Americans defeating Russians during the Cold War.