1954 Movies

Rear Window

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter

Country: United States of America

Outline: A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

The Caine Mutiny

Directed by: Edward Dmytryk

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray

Country: United States of America

Outline: When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.

White Christmas

Directed by: Michael Curtiz

Starring: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen

Country: United States of America

Outline: A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Directed by: Stanley Donen

Starring: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn

Country: United States of America

Outline: In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

The Country Girl

Directed by: George Seaton

Starring: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden, Anthony Ross

Country: United States of America

Outline: A director hires an alcoholic has-been and strikes up a stormy relationship with the actor's wife, who he believes is the cause of all the man's problems.

Magnificent Obsession

Directed by: Douglas Sirk

Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger

Country: United States of America

Outline: A selfish playboy enamored by a woman he seems to hurt more than he intends begins to understand a deeper meaning to their relationship.

There's No Business Like Show Business

Directed by: Walter Lang

Starring: Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, Dan Dailey

Country: United States of America

Outline: Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

Dial M for Murder

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams

Country: United States of America

Outline: An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.

On the Waterfront

Directed by: Elia Kazan

Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger

Country: United States of America

Outline: An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

La Strada

Directed by: Federico Fellini

Starring: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani

Country: United States of America

Outline: A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

Boot Polish

Directed by: Prakash Arora

Starring: Kumari Naaz, Rattan Kumar, David Abraham, Chand Burke

Outline: Preteen brother and sister, abandoned by their father to care of an abusive prostitute aunt, survive life in an Indian squatters' camp, aided by a friendly cripple, by learning to shine shoes instead of begging.

That's My Boy

Directed by: Sean Anders

Outline: Jack Jackson, a prominent attorney, was a big football star in his younger day. His wife Alice was a successful tennis player but their son Junior inherited no athletic ability, preferring his studies. Dad still pushes him towards sports.

A Star Is Born

Directed by: George Cukor

Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford

Country: United States of America

Outline: A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

Johnny Guitar

Directed by: Nicholas Ray

Starring: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady

Country: United States of America

Outline: After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.

Sabrina

Directed by: Billy Wilder

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden

Country: United States of America

Outline: A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur, but it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her.

Senso

Directed by: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti, Heinz Moog

Country: United States of America

Outline: A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.

The George Gobel Show

Starring: George Gobel

Country: United States of America

Outline: For Gobel's half-hour series, he used a successful comedy format of a monologue segment, followed by a story set up segment, then a musical interlude with the show's girl singer, then the main skit with the guest performers.

Passport to Danger

Written by: Robert C. Dennis

Directed by: N/a

Starring: Cesar Romero

Country: United States of America

Outline: The adventures of a U.S. diplomatic courier, as he travels to distant countries with important communiques to America's allies and dodges enemy agents.

El hombre inquieto

Directed by: Rafael Baledón

Starring: Germán Valdés, Joaquín Pardavé, Sara García, Martha Valdés

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Father Knows Best

Country: United States of America

Outline: The popular radio show comes to life in this hit sitcom about a wise family man, Jim Anderson, his common-sense wife Margaret and their children Betty, Bud and Kathy. Whenever the kids need...

Salt of the Earth

Directed by: Herbert J. Biberman

Starring: Juan Chacón, Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Wolfe

Outline: Mexican workers at a Zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers and daughters, that they eventually triumph.

Journey to Italy

Directed by: Roberto Rossellini

Starring: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban, Anna Proclemer

Country: United States of America

Outline: An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples.

Executive Suite

Directed by: Robert Wise

Starring: William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson, Fredric March

Outline: When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him.

The Blue Angel

Directed by: Josef von Sternberg

Outline: Add a Plot

Them!

Directed by: Gordon Douglas

Starring: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness

Country: United States of America

Outline: The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.