1954 movies

White Christmas (1954)

Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Crosby, Bing | Kaye, Danny | Clooney, Rosemary | Vera-Ellen | Dean Jagger | Wickes, Mary | Brascia, John | Whitfield, Anne | Butala, Tony | Cargyle, Glen | Chakiris, George | Clark, Les | Crosson, Robert | De la Brosse, Marcel | Dearing, Sayre
Directors: Curtiz, Michael
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After leaving the Army after W.W.II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, is the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General.

Sabrina (1954)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Hepburn, Audrey | Holden, William | Hampden, Walter | Williams, John | Hyer, Martha | Vohs, Joan | Dalio, Marcel | Hillaire, Marcel | Walker, Nella | Bushman, Francis X. | Corby, Ellen | Ahdar, David | Bailey, Raymond | Brooks, Ralph
Directors: Wilder, Billy
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Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very affluent family. Linus is all work — busily functional the family corporal empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play — technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been matrimonial and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and inept girl of the menage chauffeur, who has been taken with with David all her life, but David hardly notices her — “doesn’t even know I exist” — until she goes away to Paris for two years, and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds that she has captured David’s attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself dropping in love with Linus, and she finds that Linus is also dropping in love with her.

Rear Window (1954)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Kelly, Grace | Corey, Wendell | Ritter, Thelma | Burr, Raymond | Evelyn, Judith | Bagdasarian, Ross | Darcy, Georgine | Berner, Sara | Cady, Frank | Fax, Jesslyn | Harper, Rand | Winston, Irene | Davenport, Havis | English, Marla
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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In 1950-something New York, an adventurous free lance lensman finds himself jailed to a wheelchair in his tiny flat while a broken leg mends. With only the casual beguilement of a visiting nurse and his discomfited love interest, a beautiful way consultant, his attending is course drawn to the court international his “rear window” and the occupants of the flat buildings which surroundings it. Soon he is consumed by the common soldier dramas of his neighbors lives which play themselves out before his eyes. There is “Miss Lonelyhearts,” so dire for her notional lover that she sits him a plate at the dinner table and feigns their ensuing chat. There is the discomfited composer thumping on his piano, the sunbathing sculptress, the shapely dancer, the newlyweds who are hidden from their neighbors by a window shade, and a fumbling middle-aged couple with a little yapping dog who sleep on the fire escape to avoid the sweltry heat of their apartment. …And then there is the inscrutable salesman whose nagging, disable wife’s sudden absence seizure from the scene ominously coincides with middle-of-the-night forays into the dark, dormancy city with his sample case. Where did she go? What’s in the trunk that the salesman ships away? What’s he been doing with the knives and the saw that he cleans at the kitchen sink?

Barefoot Contessa, The (1954)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Gardner, Ava | O'Brien, Edmond | Goring, Marius | Cortese, Valentina | Brazzi, Rossano | Sellars, Elizabeth | Stevens, Warren | Interlenghi, Franco | Aldon, Mari | Love, Bessie | Decker, Diana | Fraser, Bill | Rabagliati, Alberto | Staiola, Enzo
Directors: Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
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While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her conversancy Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the moneyed Kirk jonathan edwards hires music director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public dealings Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a cabaret Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is positive by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his lady friend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaption for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the brawny millionaires Kirk jonathan edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and liberal Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince magical and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella’s castle of dreams has become a pumpkin.

Suddenly (1954)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sinatra, Frank | Hayden, Sterling | Gleason, James | Gates, Nancy | Charney, Kim | Frees, Paul | Dark, Christopher | Bouchey, Willis | Wexler, Paul | O'Hara, James | Dibbs, Kem | Howat, Clark | Smith, Charles Martin
Directors: Allen, Lewis
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The repose of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw’s abortive wooing of widow Ellen Benson, a disarmer who can’t abide guns and those who use them. But wildness descends on Ellen’s home haphazardly when the U.S. chairperson passes done town… and more or less psycho hired assassinator John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.