1951 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1951, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
Country: United States of America
Outline: Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
The African Queen
Directed by: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull
Country: United States of America
Outline: In Africa during World War I, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
A Place in the Sun
Directed by: George Stevens
Starring: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere
Country: United States of America
Outline: A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
An American in Paris
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary
Country: United States of America
Outline: Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
Quo Vadis
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann
Starring: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov
Country: United States of America
Outline: A fierce Roman commander becomes infatuated with a beautiful Christian hostage and begins questioning the tyrannical leadership of the despot Emperor Nero.
Show Boat
Directed by: George Sidney
Starring: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown
Country: United States of America
Outline: The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairytale romance is threatened when his luck turns sour.
The Great Caruso
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Starring: Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten, Jarmila Novotna
Outline: This highly fictionalized film traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan ...
That's My Boy
Directed by: Hal Walker
Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Ruth Hussey, Eddie Mayehoff
Country: United States of America
Outline: The greatest player in Ridgefield College history uses his influence and reputation to get his only son, a sickly, uncoordinated nerd, on the college football team with comic results.
David and Bathsheba
Directed by: Henry King
Starring: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore
Country: United States of America
Outline: After King David sees the beautiful Bathsheba bathing from the palace roof, he enters into an adulterous affair which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
Ace in the Hole
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall
Country: United States of America
Outline: A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
Scrooge
Directed by: Brian Desmond Hurst
Starring: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns
Country: United States of America
Outline: An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by three ghosts on Christmas Eve...
Sky King
Starring: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters
Country: United States of America
Outline: "From out of the clear blue of the western sky comes Sky King" was the familiar opening to television's premier aviation program. Operating from his Flying Crown Ranch in Arizona, Sky King,...
Strangers on a Train
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll
Country: United States of America
Outline: A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder - a theory that he plans to implement.
The Range Rider
Directed by: Don McDougall
Starring: Jock Mahoney, Dickie Jones
Country: United States of America
Outline: The Range Rider, had a reputation for fairness, fighting ability, and accuracy with his guns and was known far and wide, even by the Indians.
Bellissima
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella, Gastone Renzelli
Country: United States of America
Outline: A woman from the low class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Directed by: Robert Wise
Starring: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe
Country: United States of America
Outline: An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
Those Two
Directed by: Michele Morando
Outline: Add a Plot
The Lavender Hill Mob
Directed by: Charles Crichton
Starring: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass
Country: United States of America
Outline: A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
Othello
Directed by: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir, Robert Coote, Suzanne Cloutier
Country: United States of America
Outline: The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
The River
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Starring: Patricia Walters, Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields
Country: United States of America
Outline: Three adolescent girls growing up in Bengal, India, learn their lessons in life after falling for an older American soldier.
Detective Story
Directed by: William Wyler
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell
Country: United States of America
Outline: On one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod.
Westward the Women
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Starring: Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson, John McIntire
Country: United States of America
Outline: A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently began settling there.
Dragnet
Written by: Jack Webb
Directed by: Jack Webb
Starring: Jack Webb
Country: United States of America
Outline: Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners methodically investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
Crusade in the Pacific
Starring: Westbrook Van Voorhis
Country: United States of America
Outline: Add a Plot
En la palma de tu mano
Directed by: Roberto Gavaldón
Starring: Arturo de Córdova, Leticia Palma, Ramón Gay, Consuelo Guerrero de Luna
Outline: A fortune teller blackmails a beautiful widow whose husband has recently died.
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