1954
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1. Knave of Hearts (1954)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A philanderer fakes suicide with unexpected consequences.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Gérard Philipe, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Margaret Johnston
Votes: 509
2. Red Garters (1954)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Drama, Musical
A man visits a frontier town seeking to avenge his brother's murder.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell, Pat Crowley
Votes: 450 | Gross: $1.30M
3. It Should Happen to You (1954)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a young woman with dreams of fame rents a billboard to advertise herself, her life changes overnight.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford, Michael O'Shea
Votes: 4,533 | Gross: $1.40M
4. Track of the Cat (1954)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Western
Around the turn of the 20th century, during a harsh northern California winter, members of a ranching family are squabbling among themselves while the two oldest sons go hunting for a panther that is killing their livestock.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn, Tab Hunter
Votes: 2,470
5. High and Dry (1954)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy
An American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping a valuable load of cargo to a Scottish island via a coal powered boat.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland, Abe Barker
Votes: 1,522
6. Brigadoon (1954)
Passed | 108 min | Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart
Votes: 9,379
7. Flying Classroom (1954)
92 min | Drama, Comedy, Family
All is not really well between the boys of Gymnasium and the boys of the six-form High School: sparks fly when they get within 100m of each other. The continuous feud between the pupils is ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Paul Dahlke, Heliane Bei, Paul Klinger, Erich Ponto
Votes: 617
8. The Passing Stranger (1954)
84 min | Crime, Drama
The pretty owner of a 'greasy spoon' cafe helps a handsome customer involved in robbery and murder.
Director: John Arnold | Stars: Lee Patterson, Diane Cilento, Duncan Lamont, Olive Gregg
Votes: 138
9. Glückliche Reise (1954)
85 min | Comedy, Music
Director: Thomas Engel | Stars: Paul Hubschmid, Inge Egger, Paul Klinger, Peer Schmidt
Votes: 13
10. Aldri annet enn bråk (1954)
77 min | Comedy, Drama
The Bråten family lives on the top floor in a sublet appartment in the suburbs of Oslo. The father, mother and 5 kids all share the space of this 1 room and a kitchen appartment. The father... See full summary »
Director: Edith Carlmar | Stars: Turid Haaland, Stig Egede-Nissen, Vigdis Røising, Sven Libaek
Votes: 141
11. The Last Summer (1954)
110 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A Nordic revolutionary's plans to murder the president go awry when he falls in love with the man's daughter.
Director: Harald Braun | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Liselotte Pulver, Mathias Wieman, Brigitte Horney
Votes: 38
12. Dragnet (1954)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two homicide detectives investigate the brutal shotgun murder of a crime syndicate member.
Director: Jack Webb | Stars: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Richard Boone, Ann Robinson
Votes: 1,136
13. Cry Vengeance (1954)
Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Violent ex-cop Vic Barron comes to Ketchikan, Alaska seeking revenge on an old enemy.
Director: Mark Stevens | Stars: Mark Stevens, Martha Hyer, Skip Homeier, Joan Vohs
Votes: 626
14. Jazz Dance (1954)
22 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Roger Tilton wrote (what little there is in this mostly unrehearsed short), directed and produced this short subject shot in the Central Plaza Dance Hall in New York City. It is a frenzied,... See full summary »
Director: Roger Tilton | Stars: Jimmy McPartland, Pee Wee Russell, Willie 'The Lion' Smith
Votes: 126
15. The River Girl (1954)
94 min | Drama
When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Sophia Loren, Gérard Oury, Lise Bourdin, Enrico Olivieri
Votes: 274
16. Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster. This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly
Votes: 2,021
17. One Step to Eternity (1954)
95 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Francois Roques, a power-and-money-mad editor of a Paris newspaper (who justifies his actions by calling attention to his poverty-stricken childhood), invites four women to a housewarming ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Michel Auclair, Corinne Calvet, Gérard Buhr
Votes: 149
18. The Rainbow Jacket (1954)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Sport
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Edward Underdown, Fella Edmonds
Votes: 196
19. The Anatomy of Love (1954)
134 min | Comedy
A five-part compilation film. In "The Baby," a poverty-ridden couple with children decides that their newborn is too much and decide to leave him in a church, but the mother can't go ... See full summary »
Directors: Alessandro Blasetti, Paul Paviot | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Dany Robin, François Périer, Alba Arnova
Votes: 190
20. Ein Leben für Do (1954)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Hans Söhnker, Paola Loew, Heidi Becker, Charles Regnier
Votes: 11
21. Sabrina (1954)
Passed | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden
Votes: 70,397
22. Hochzeitsglocken (1954)
85 min | Drama
The young, naive Katharina falls head over heels in love with the handsome novelist Philipp. When she finds out that she was only a short adventure for him, she decides to take her own life... See full summary »
Director: Georg Wildhagen | Stars: Marianne Hold, Renate Mannhardt, Carl Wery, Jan Hendriks
Votes: 24
23. Young at Heart (1954)
Approved | 117 min | Drama, Music, Romance
The life of the youngest of three sisters in a musical family is complicated by the separate arrivals of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore
Votes: 2,810
24. Beachhead (1954)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, War
In 1943, in the wake of the Allied amphibious landing on the Japanese-held Bougainville Island, four Marines are sent to scout the location of Japanese minefields.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz
Votes: 1,199 | Gross: $1.40M
25. Broken Lance (1954)
Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
The saga of the Devereaux rancher family, set in 1880's Arizona.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark
Votes: 4,309 | Gross: $8.28M
26. Vergine moderna (1954)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
The young Claudia wants to escape from the gray life of the province and aims rich men but each time with unhappy results. Only the brother will eventually succeed in shaking her from this purpose.
Director: Marcello Pagliero | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Gabriele Ferzetti, May Britt, Vittorio Sanipoli
Votes: 24
27. Court Martial (1954)
Approved | 105 min | Drama
A court-martial attempts to find out why, and if, an officer embezzled his unit's funds.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Noelle Middleton, Allan Cuthbertson
Votes: 756
28. Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama
An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll, Vittorio Sanipoli
Votes: 8,550 | Gross: $0.13M
29. Rear Window (1954)
PG | 112 min | Mystery, Thriller
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 522,494 | Gross: $36.76M
30. Phffft (1954)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
While pursing new companions, a former married couple keep running into each other all over town.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson, Kim Novak
Votes: 2,001
31. Black Widow (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A young writer insinuates herself into the life of a Broadway producer.
Director: Nunnally Johnson | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft
Votes: 3,249
32. Four Guns to the Border (1954)
Passed | 83 min | Drama, Western
An outlaw gang on the lam encounters former associate Simon Bhumer and his gorgeous daughter, who's drawn to their leader Cully.
Director: Richard Carlson | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Colleen Miller, George Nader, Walter Brennan
Votes: 539
33. Cento anni d'amore (1954)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Lionello De Felice | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Irene Galter, Franco Interlenghi, Carlo Ninchi
Votes: 53
34. Amori di mezzo secolo (1954)
72 min | Drama, Romance
Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.
Directors: Mario Chiari, Pietro Germi, Glauco Pellegrini, Antonio Pietrangeli, Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Franco Interlenghi, Leonora Ruffo, Paola Borboni, Carlo Ninchi
Votes: 181
35. The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, War
When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardises the ship, the first officer is urged to consider relieving him of command.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray
Votes: 29,918 | Gross: $21.75M
36. Woman's World (1954)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance
An executive plans to fill a high-ranking position by interviewing the candidates' wives.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Cornel Wilde, Clifton Webb
Votes: 1,210
37. Il seduttore (1954)
97 min | Comedy
Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.
Director: Franco Rossi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Lea Padovani, Lia Amanda, Jacqueline Pierreux
Votes: 152
38. Fireworks (1954)
97 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
In 1908 a traveling circus arrives in a small German town. The circus director, known as Sascha Obolski, is actually Alexander Oberholzer, the brother of local garden gnome maker Albert Oberholzer.
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Karl Schönböck, Romy Schneider, Claus Biederstaedt
Votes: 199
39. Adventure in the Hopfields (1954)
60 min | Adventure, Family
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Mandy Miller, Hilda Fenemore, Russell Waters, Harold Lang
Votes: 199
40. Geliebtes Fräulein Doktor (1954)
Comedy, Romance
Director: Hans H. König | Stars: Edith Mill, Hans Nielsen, Helmut Schmid, Robert Freitag
Votes: 16
41.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Nineteen Eighty-Four
(1954)
114 min | Drama
In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 681
42. Time Is My Enemy (1954)
64 min | Crime, Drama
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Dennis Price, Renée Asherson, Patrick Barr, Duncan Lamont
Votes: 214
43. Emil und die Detektive (1954)
90 min | Adventure, Family
Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
Director: Robert A. Stemmle | Stars: Peter Finkbeiner, Heli Finkenzeller, Wolfgang Lukschy, Kurt Meisel
Votes: 366
44. The Scheming Women (1954)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Paul Rémi, the well-known theater director, was accused by his secretary, Andrieux, of having pushed his associate Bazine from a footbridge situated twelve meters above the stage. Advised ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Raymond Rouleau, Jeanne Moreau, Raymond Pellegrin, Etchika Choureau
Votes: 182
45. The Last Bridge (1954)
102 min | Drama, War
A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Serbian partisan during World War II.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki, Barbara Rütting, Carl Möhner
Votes: 452
46. Night People (1954)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
During the Cold War, an American soldier is abducted in West Berlin, sparking a recovery effort led by Colonel Steve Van Dyke.
Director: Nunnally Johnson | Stars: Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam
Votes: 1,513
47. Delirio (1954)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
An engineer struggles between his wife and lover and his life becomes hell.
Directors: Pierre Billon, Giorgio Capitani | Stars: Raf Vallone, Françoise Arnoul, Giorgio Albertazzi, Rita Andreana
Votes: 19
48. Die goldene Pest (1954)
95 min | Drama
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Ivan Desny, Karlheinz Böhm, Gertrud Kückelmann, Wilfried Seyferth
Votes: 20
49. Gog (1954)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A security agent investigates sabotage and murder at a secret underground laboratory, home of two experimental robots.
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall, John Wengraf
Votes: 1,621
50. The High and the Mighty (1954)
Not Rated | 147 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack
Votes: 6,552
51. The Teckman Mystery (1954)
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A biographer researching a book on a pilot who died during the test flight of a new plane falls in love with the pilot's sister. As he uncovers more about the test flight, people connected with the case begin to die.
Director: Wendy Toye | Stars: Margaret Leighton, John Justin, Meier Tzelniker, Michael Medwin
Votes: 539
52. The Outcast (1954)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Western
Jet Cosgrave returns home to claim the ranch that was stolen from him, after his father's death.
Director: William Witney | Stars: John Derek, Joan Evans, Jim Davis, Catherine McLeod
Votes: 441
53. There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Approved | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
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.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, Dan Dailey
Votes: 6,703
54. White Christmas (1954)
Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
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.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen
Votes: 51,148 | Gross: $30.00M
55. The Gold of Naples (1954)
Not Rated | 138 min | Comedy, Drama
A portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Totò, Lianella Carell, Pasquale Cennamo, Agostino Salvietti
Votes: 2,044
56. Mystery on Bird Island (1954)
57 min | Family, Mystery
Two children on holiday in Alderney, along with two local children catch men stealing bird eggs on the uninhabited island of Burhou but discover more than they bargained for.
Director: John Haggarty | Stars: Mavis Sage, Vernon Morris, Jennifer Beech, Nick Edmett
Votes: 57
57. Go Man Go (1954)
82 min | Drama, Sport
The story of Abe Saperstein and the creation of the Harlem Globetrotters.
Director: James Wong Howe | Stars: Dane Clark, Patricia Breslin, Sidney Poitier, Anatol Winogradoff
Votes: 182
58. Rosen-Resli (1954)
85 min | Drama
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Josefin Kipper, Paul Klinger, Katharina Mayberg, Arno Assmann
Votes: 49
59. Der schweigende Engel (1954)
94 min | Drama
Purely by chance, ballet superstar Sylvia Verena discovers that Angelika Helmer has real talent. The child, however, cannot speak and hasn't been able to since falling down as a young child.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Josefin Kipper, Robert Freitag, Gustav Waldau, Alice Treff
Votes: 46
60. Frühlingslied (1954)
102 min | Drama, Family
At the age of three, little Wolfgang has lost his parents. Since then his uncle Eduard raises the boy. As a former concertmaster Eduard has recognized how gifted his nephew is and the boy ... See full summary »
Director: Hans Albin | Stars: Oliver Grimm, Elsbeth Sigmund, Anne-Marie Blanc, René Deltgen
Votes: 39
61. Afraid to Love (1954)
95 min | Crime, Drama
This appeal for the abolition of the death penalty centers on a woman , who has been sentenced to capital punishment for killing her faithless husband.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Elisabeth Müller, Albert Lieven, Vera Molnar
Votes: 70
62. A Star Is Born (1954)
Passed | 154 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford
Votes: 19,687 | Gross: $14.93M
63. The Naked Jungle (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer, William Conrad
Votes: 4,409
64. Doctor in the House (1954)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy
The trials and tribulations of a group of medical students at St. Swithin's hospital in London, England.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden
Votes: 1,617
65. Mad About Men (1954)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda (Glynis Johns) swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on vacation. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Glynis Johns, Donald Sinden, Anne Crawford, Margaret Rutherford
Votes: 612
66. You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy
A fun frolic involving a fake secret weapon (accidentally created during a drinking bout), Naval bureaucracy, political maneuvering, and the hareem and palace of the exotic eastern country of Agraria.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Akim Tamiroff, Donald Sinden, Sarah Lawson, Naunton Wayne
Votes: 99
67. Knock on Wood (1954)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy
Discovering that a ventriloquist is travelling to Zurich, a spy ring hides secret plans in his dummies' heads. When a second spy ring learns of the plans, they descend upon the ventriloquist, causing city-wide pandemonium.
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher, David Burns
Votes: 1,166
68. Schule für Eheglück (1954)
102 min | Comedy
Directors: Rainer Geis, Anton Schelkopf | Stars: Wolf Albach-Retty, Cornell Borchers, Alexander Golling, Gisela Griffel
Votes: 19
69. Bei Dir war es immer so schön (1954)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
While working as accountant in his uncle's factory, talented young pianist Peter dreams of becoming a famous composer. When he shows his work to a producer, he manages to convince him to ... See full summary »
Director: Hans Wolff | Stars: Heinz Drache, Georg Thomalla, Ingrid Stenn, Grethe Weiser
Votes: 38
70. Verliebte Leute (1954)
100 min | Comedy, Music
Three young bachelors swear to enjoy a roadtrip without women. Their plan is endangered by a rich man, who needs a chauffeur for his beautiful daughter.
Director: Franz Antel | Stars: Peter Pasetti, Rudolf Platte, Peter Alexander, Hannelore Bollmann
Votes: 37
71. Air of Paris (1954)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Sport
The story of Andre Menard, a promising young amateur boxer from an impoverished background who is mentored by former pro Victor Le Garrec, and whose career path takes a nosedive when he falls for the wealthy Corinne.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Jean Gabin, Arletty, Roland Lesaffre, Marie Daëms
Votes: 710
72. Man with a Million (1954)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
As part of a bet, two aristocrats offer a penniless American a loan, without telling him that the amount is £1,000,000 in the form of a single banknote.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Gregory Peck, Jane Griffiths, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell
Votes: 4,202
73. Living It Up (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical
An unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold
Votes: 1,751 | Gross: $9.35M
74. Dial M for Murder (1954)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Thriller
A former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams
Votes: 188,962 | Gross: $0.01M
75. Front Page Story (1954)
99 min | Drama
Grant is the news editor of London's "Daily World". On a very complicated day, two news stories come to a dramatic climax. Interwoven with these is the problem of Grant's personal life which looks likely to become yet another news item.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Allan, Eva Bartok, Derek Farr
Votes: 162
76. The Country Girl (1954)
Unrated | 104 min | Drama, Music
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.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden, Anthony Ross
Votes: 6,678
77. Hobson's Choice (1954)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Widower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesn't want to pay settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson
Votes: 8,817
78. Susan Slept Here (1954)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 2,169
79. Pushover (1954)
Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An undercover police officer falls for the beautiful moll of a bank robber on the run, and together they plan to double-cross the hood and the cops.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak, Philip Carey, Dorothy Malone
Votes: 4,131
80. River of No Return (1954)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The titular river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his young son, and an ambitious saloon singer. In order to survive, each must be purged of anger, and each must learn to understand and care for the others.
Directors: Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun, Tommy Rettig
Votes: 13,006
81. Lease of Life (1954)
Approved | 94 min | Drama
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Robert Donat, Kay Walsh, Adrienne Corri, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 328
82. Rogue Cop (1954)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After witnessing a murder, honest cop Eddie Kelvaney is silenced by gangster Dan Beaumonte, prompting Eddie's brother, Detective Chris Kelvaney, to search for the killer.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, George Raft, Steve Forrest
Votes: 1,019
83. Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An FBI agent investigates the murder of his partner by taking over the 3 cases he was working on, determined to find his killer.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer, Marisa Pavan
Votes: 1,567
84. The Far Country (1954)
Passed | 97 min | Romance, Western
A self-minded adventurer locks horns with a crooked lawman while driving cattle to Dawson.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan
Votes: 8,644
85. Les femmes s'en balancent (1954)
109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Lemmy Caution is back! He hooks up with a fellow agent at a night club to exchange info about a beautiful babe the FBI has under observation. Later, Eddie finds his fellow agent murdered ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Borderie | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Nadia Gray, Dominique Wilms, Robert Berri
Votes: 173
86. Highway Dragnet (1954)
Passed | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Wrongly accused of killing a bar-girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Reed Hadley
Votes: 897
87. Tonight's the Night (1954)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy
In the Irish village of Rathbarney, the aged squire is killed while hunting. His successor, O'Leary arrives in Rathbarney to take over his dead great uncle's estate.
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: David Niven, Yvonne De Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald, George Cole
Votes: 608
88. Toward Emotional Maturity (1954)
10 min | Short
Teenager Sally is starting to understand the power of emotions. Her teacher demonstrates how we sometimes become irrational without thinking by springing a rubber snake on the classroom. ... See full summary »
Votes: 51
89. Echo der Berge (1954)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Alfons Stummer | Stars: Anita Gutwell, Rudolf Lenz, Karl Ehmann, Erik Frey
Votes: 114
90. Gypsy Colt (1954)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Family, Western
A beautiful spirited horse is so devoted to his young mistress that he undertakes an incredible 500-mile journey over treacherous terrain to be reunited with her.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Donna Corcoran, Ward Bond, Frances Dee, Larry Keating
Votes: 277
91. Lucky Me (1954)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.
Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy Jr.
Votes: 896
92. Shop Spoiled (1954)
82 min | Drama
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Joan Rice, Josephine Griffin, Freda Jackson, Patricia Marmont
Votes: 222
93. Palace of Shame (1954)
97 min | Crime, Drama
After a performance at the Concert Mayol, a Parisian music hall, dancer Mado is poisoned with arsenic and transported to hospital, and survives. Immediately the rumors run behind the scene.
Director: Pierre Méré | Stars: Claude Godard, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Daniel Clérice, Robert Berri
Votes: 17
94. Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, War
A famous writer visits an aircraft carrier during the Korean war to learn more about it and the way it's run. He also gets to find out more about the Navy and Marine aviators themselves, their internal and external conflicts and dangers of their job.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Louis Calhern, Dewey Martin
Votes: 629 | Gross: $1.50M
95. The Divided Heart (1954)
Approved | 89 min | Drama
A story of litigation between a birth mother and an adopted family due to a child lost during a war.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell, Armin Dahlen, Alexander Knox
Votes: 296
96. The Purple Plain (1954)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In World War II Burma, a Canadian bomber pilot becomes reckless after losing his bride in a Luftwaffe air-raid.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Gregory Peck, Bernard Lee, Win Min Than, Brenda de Banzie
Votes: 2,455
97. Destry (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Western
A dishonest mayor and powerful criminal dominate a small western town. But when the town's sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances, Tom Destry, son of a famed gunman, is called in to put an end to the corruption.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Lyle Bettger, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 1,635
98. Private Hell 36 (1954)
Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When 2 detectives steal $80,000 from a dead robber, one of them suffers from a guilty conscience which could lead to murder.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Dean Jagger
Votes: 1,882
99. Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
Approved | 81 min | Western
After his father and brother are murdered by a corrupt lawyer and sheriff duo, railroad surveyor Clay O'Mara plans his revenge, and is aided by former outlaw Whitey Kincade.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Audie Murphy, Susan Cabot, Dan Duryea, Abbe Lane
Votes: 1,451
100. Make Haste to Live (1954)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
After serving 18 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, a mobster is paroled and returns to a New Mexico town to exact his revenge on the woman responsible for his conviction.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Stephen McNally, Mary Murphy, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 341
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