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1. 'B' Girl Rhapsody (1952)
76 min | Drama
Burlesque beauties performing their signature striptease acts, accompanied by comedians, testing the moral boundaries.
Directors: James R. Connell, Lillian Hunt | Stars: Lily Ayers, Crystal Starr, Chili Pepper, Ginger Duvall
Votes: 44
2. 5 Fingers (1952)
Approved | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden
Votes: 5,471
3. A Girl in Every Port (1952)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy
After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.
Director: Chester Erskine | Stars: Groucho Marx, Marie Wilson, William Bendix, Don DeFore
Votes: 713
4. A Yank in Indo-China (1952)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, History
Mulvaney (John Archer) and Cling Marshall (Douglas Dick), operators of a small-cargo airline which flies food into French and Viet Namese forces fighting the Communists invaders, are asked ... See full summary »
Director: Wallace Grissell | Stars: John Archer, Douglas Dick, Jean Willes, Maura Murphy
Votes: 29
5. Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Shy farmboy loves his next-door neighbor, but she dreams of going to the big city. Then she gets mixed up with big-city gangsters.
Director: Claude Binyon | Stars: Alan Young, Dinah Shore, Robert Merrill, Adele Jergens
Votes: 158
6. Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Rocky and Puddin' Head are waiting tables at an inn on Tortuga when a letter given them by Lady Jane for delivery to Martingale gets switched with a treasure map. Kidd and Bonney kidnap them to Skull Island to find said treasure.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Laughton, Hillary Brooke
Votes: 2,309
7. Abenteuer in Wien (1952)
89 min | Crime, Drama
A European Film Noir that takes place during 12 hours of a New Year's Eve in Vienna.
Director: Emil E. Reinert | Stars: Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers, Adrienne Gessner, Rosa Albach-Retty
Votes: 73
8. About Face (1952)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three friends enter military school together, but 2 of them don't know that the 3rd one is secretly married.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken, Dick Wesson, Virginia Gibson
Votes: 170
9. Above and Beyond (1952)
Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama, War
Col. Paul Tibbets piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II.
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating
Votes: 1,342
10. Actors and Sin (1952)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
Two-part story--the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigger star than he is; the second is about a literary agent whose newest client--a ... See full summary »
Directors: Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Eddie Albert, Marsha Hunt, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 204
11. Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Nightclub singer and her brother-in-law try to find her husband's killer.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby, Valerie Bettis
Votes: 3,087
12. African Treasure (1952)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure
Bomba the Jungle Boy captures a pair of nefarious diamond smugglers.
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Johnny Sheffield, Laurette Luez, Martin Garralaga, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 217
13. Against All Flags (1952)
Approved | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Brian Hawke of the Royal Navy versus the pirates of Madagascar.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Alice Kelley
Votes: 2,964
14. Aladdin and His Lamp (1952)
67 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A poor young man finds a lamp with a genie trapped inside. The genie promises to grant the man three wishes if he frees him from the lamp.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Johnny Sands, Patricia Medina, Richard Erdman, John Dehner
Votes: 96
15. And Now Tomorrow (1952)
70 min | Drama
The National Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. begins in 1802. When Revolutionary War captain Gideon Blackburn preaches to his troops, he is chastised by Gen. ... See full summary »
Director: William Watson | Stars: Don DeFore, Louise Arthur, House Peters Jr., Morris Ankrum
16. Androcles and the Lion (1952)
Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Story of a Christian in ancient Rome who befriends a lion.
Directors: Chester Erskine, Nicholas Ray | Stars: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young, Robert Newton
Votes: 1,066
17. Anything Can Happen (1952)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
Giorgi, a man of character, emigrates from Georgia, U.S.S.R. to the U.S. He and other Georgian immigrants there support one another while struggling to find work and become U.S. citizens. Giorgi falls for a cute reporter interested in his case.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: José Ferrer, Kim Hunter, Kurt Kasznar, Eugenie Leontovich
Votes: 163
18. Apache Country (1952)
Passed | 62 min | Western
When a white man sets out to keep Indians drunk so they'll do what he wants them to, the US government sends Autry to fix things.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Carolina Cotton, Harry Lauter
Votes: 138
19. Apache War Smoke (1952)
Passed | 67 min | Western
Apaches surround and attack a remote stage relay station - trapping a stagecoach, passengers, cash box, a local bandit, a drifter and the station staff - in a search for a killer of their tribesmen.
Director: Harold F. Kress | Stars: Gilbert Roland, Glenda Farrell, Robert Horton, Barbara Ruick
Votes: 262
20. April in Paris (1952)
Unrated | 100 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Doris Day, Ray Bolger, Claude Dauphin, Eve Miller
Votes: 1,514
21. Arctic Flight (1952)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Mike Wien, an Alaskan bush pilot operating the the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, posing as a wealthy American businessman. But, in reality, he is a Russian spy on ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Wayne Morris, Lola Albright, Alan Hale Jr., Carol Thurston
Votes: 160
22. Army Bound (1952)
61 min | Action, Drama
Race car driver Frank Cermak is in love with Jane Harris. Jane and her parents watch Frank win a tight race from Bill Peters, an army lieutenant on leave. Peters tries to foul Frank, and ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Stanley Clements, Karen Sharpe, Steve Brodie, Jeffrey Stone
23. Assignment: Paris (1952)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Thriller
Cold war intrigue in France and Hungary.
Directors: Robert Parrish, Phil Karlson | Stars: Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, George Sanders, Audrey Totter
Votes: 686
24. At Sword's Point (1952)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, History
In 1648 France, it's the sons (and daughter) of the Three Musketeers to the rescue!
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Douglas, Gladys Cooper
Votes: 823
25. Babes in Bagdad (1952)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy
Hassan, the Kadi of Bagdad, has a harem housing twelve beauties, but concentrates his attention on Zohara. A newcomer, Kyra, introduces rebellion into the by the unheard of act of ... See full summary »
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Paulette Goddard, Gypsy Rose Lee, Richard Ney, John Boles
Votes: 131
26. Back at the Front (1952)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
Further misadventures of comic soldiers Willie and Joe, now in Japan.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Tom Ewell, Harvey Lembeck, Mari Blanchard, Richard Long
Votes: 56
27. Bal Tabarin (1952)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Musical
Fearing that she is being followed, Judy Allen, a singer from Los Angeles, turns up unexpectedly at the Parisian apartment of her friend, Stella Simmons, and tells this story: Because her ... See full synopsis »
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Muriel Lawrence, William Ching, Claire Carleton, Steve Brodie
Votes: 14
28. Barbed Wire (1952)
Passed | 61 min | Music, Western
When the Texas cattle trails to Kansas are blocked, cattle buyer Gene Autry (Gene Autry) goes to Texas to investigate. There, he finds his friend, land-agent "Buckeye" Buttram (Pat Buttram)... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Anne James, William Fawcett
Votes: 124
29. Battle Zone (1952)
Approved | 81 min | War
During the Korean War, two combat photographers with the U.S. Marine Corps compete for the heart of a pretty Italian Army nurse.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: John Hodiak, Linda Christian, Stephen McNally, Martin Milner
Votes: 219
30. Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, History, War
During the 1700s, in the Great Lakes region the British troops have driven the French out and with help from the mercenary Hessian troops the British plan to annihilate the native tribes of the Ottawas.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Lex Barker, Helen Westcott, Lon Chaney Jr., Berry Kroeger
Votes: 218
31. Because You're Mine (1952)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Musical
A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Mario Lanza, Doretta Morrow, James Whitmore, Dean Miller
Votes: 412
32. Because of You (1952)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Loretta Young, Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Frances Dee
Votes: 291
33. Behind Southern Lines (1952)
Approved | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Rand Brooks, Murray Alper
Votes: 20
34. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
Not Rated | 74 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo, Charlita
Votes: 2,619
35. Belles on Their Toes (1952)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Family
The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter
Votes: 1,112 | Gross: $4.36M
36. Bend of the River (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a town boss confiscates homesteaders' supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams
Votes: 9,900
37. Beware, My Lovely (1952)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mentally disturbed handyman on the run, for reasons even he doesn't understand, takes a job at the house of a lonely war widow in 1918.
Director: Harry Horner | Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes, Barbara Whiting
Votes: 2,347
38. Big Jim McLain (1952)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, History
In the post-war Hawaii, House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter hunt down Communists.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness, Alan Napier
Votes: 2,359
39. Black Hills Ambush (1952)
Passed | 53 min | Drama, Western
Rocky arrives to help his friend Nugget whose shipments are being robbed. Learning the gang only goes for incoming shipments, he figures they are repacking the loot and having Nugget ship ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Allan Lane, Black Jack, Eddy Waller, Leslye Banning
Votes: 54
40. Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)
Approved | 99 min | Adventure, Romance
Honest Edward Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes
Votes: 1,699
41. Blackhawk: Fearless Champion of Freedom (1952)
Approved | 242 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the war, they continued to fight evil where ... See full summary »
Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred F. Sears | Stars: Kirk Alyn, Carol Forman, John Crawford, Michael Fox
Votes: 214
42. Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Musical
A calculating New York bookie hires a talented singer and dancer to entertain his nightclub. She brings her pet bloodhounds with her. This makes his girlfriend jealous, so she considers spilling the beans on his dealings to the feds.
Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Mitzi Gaynor, Scott Brady, Mitzi Green, Marguerite Chapman
Votes: 281
43. Blue Canadian Rockies (1952)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western
With the goal of preventing his daughter from marrying, Autry's boss sends him to Canada where she has started a dude ranch and wild game preserve.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Gail Davis, Carolina Cotton
Votes: 103
44. Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Bomba, the Jungle Boy and now animal protector, discovers human skeletons which turn out to be those of his parents.
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Johnny Sheffield, Karen Sharpe, Walter Sande, Suzette Harbin
Votes: 198
45. Bonzo Goes to College (1952)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
The educated chimp moves in with a college football coach's family.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Maureen O'Sullivan, Edmund Gwenn, Charles Drake, Gigi Perreau
Votes: 162
46. Boots Malone (1952)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Sport
Rich kid ducks school and goes to the racetrack to learn how to be a jockey.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: William Holden, Stanley Clements, Basil Ruysdael, Carl Benton Reid
Votes: 463
47. Border Saddlemates (1952)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Music, Western
Baxter is transporting counterfeit bills across the border in the bottom of fox cages. When veterinarian Allen places the fox ranch under quarantine tying up the bills, Baxter's plan to get at the money means trouble.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Rex Allen, Koko, Mary Ellen Kay, Slim Pickens
Votes: 47
48. Botany Bay (1952)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1787, American medical student Hugh Tallant and British convicts are sent from London to New South Wales on a ship commanded by the evil Captain Gilbert.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Alan Ladd, James Mason, Patricia Medina, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 577
49. Brave Warrior (1952)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Western
In Indiana of the early 1800s, conflict once again arises between the United States and Great Britain over territory and boundaries. Each side endeavors to gain the support of the Shawnee ... See full summary »
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Jon Hall, Christine Larson, Jay Silverheels, Michael Ansara
Votes: 196
50. Breakdown (1952)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Framed for murder, heavyweight boxer Terry Williams is sent to prison, but is released after a few years on good behavior. He becomes a championship contender and then, on the eve of the ... See full summary »
Director: Edmond Angelo | Stars: Ann Richards, William Bishop, Anne Gwynne, Sheldon Leonard
Votes: 108
51. Bronco Buster (1952)
Approved | 80 min | Western
A veteran rodeo rider takes on a young apprentice in order to "teach him the ropes", and winds up competing against him.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: John Lund, Scott Brady, Joyce Holden, Chill Wills
Votes: 109
52. Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory (1952)
Passed | 66 min | Western
Made during the period when Clayton Moore had been replaced on the Lone Ranger television series by John Hart, but actually appears to have been made during the dawn of the sound era ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Clayton Moore, Slim Andrews, Charles Harvey, Rodd Redwing
Votes: 154
53. Bugles in the Afternoon (1952)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Western
After violently attacking a fellow officer Lt. Edward Garnett, cavalry Captain Kern Shafter is court martialled. Later, he rejoins the army with Custer's regiment at Fort Lincoln, Dakota, becoming a sergeant, where he runs into his old foe.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Ray Milland, Helena Carter, Hugh Marlowe, Forrest Tucker
Votes: 466
54. Burlesque in Hawaii (1952)
Comedy, Music, Musical
Director: Harry Vine | Stars: Hermie Rose, Harry Vine, Grace Hathaway, Jeanne Starr
55. Bwana Devil (1952)
Not Rated | 79 min | Adventure
British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.
Directors: Arch Oboler, Robert Clampett | Stars: Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce, Ramsay Hill
Votes: 422
56. California Conquest (1952)
Passed | 78 min | Adventure, History, Romance
In the 1840s, most Californians want their state to break away from Mexico and possibly join the USA but Russia, Britain and France aim to grab California for themselves.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Teresa Wright, Alfonso Bedoya, Lisa Ferraday
Votes: 287
57. Canyon Ambush (1952)
Approved | 53 min | Western
A mysterious masked rider and his gang are murdering ranchers and robbing stages. Government Agent Johnny Mack Brown has been called in to help the Sheriff. Capturing a henchman he learns ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Phyllis Coates, Lee Roberts, Hugh Prosser
Votes: 71
58. Captain Pirate (1952)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1690, pardoned pirate Captain Blood's quiet existence is shaken when the Crown re-arrests him on fresh piracy charges but the captain suspects he's being set up.
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, John Sutton, Charles Irwin
Votes: 348
59. Captain Scarlett (1952)
Approved | 75 min | Adventure, Drama
Captain Scarlett returns from gallivanting around the country-side after the Napoleonic wars and finds life in southern France very different. He saves a beautiful princess from an arranged... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Richard Greene, Leonora Amar, Nedrick Young, Manolo Fábregas
Votes: 379
60. Captive Women (1952)
Approved | 64 min | Sci-Fi
In a post-apocalyptic New York City, three tribes of mutants (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver people) battle each other to survive.
Director: Stuart Gilmore | Stars: Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Gloria Saunders, Ron Randell
Votes: 155
61. Captive of Billy the Kid (1952)
Passed | 54 min | Drama, Western
Five people have a part of a map leading to Billy the Kid's treasure. When one of them is killed, Rocky Lane has a plan to find the killer.
Director: Fred C. Brannon | Stars: Allan Lane, Black Jack, Penny Edwards, Grant Withers
Votes: 39
62. Carbine Williams (1952)
Unrated | 92 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey, Carl Benton Reid
Votes: 2,097
63. Caribbean (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s and sold into slavery by Andrew MacAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Cedric Hardwicke, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 231
64. Carson City (1952)
Approved | 87 min | Western
When a banker finds his stagecoach shipments of gold from Carson City are vulnerable to holdups, he commissions the building of a railroad through the mountains.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Randolph Scott, Lucille Norman, Raymond Massey, Richard Webb
Votes: 1,191
65. Carrie (1952)
Approved | 118 min | Drama, Romance
A young girl from a provincial town learns the bitter reality of a big city and great love.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Eddie Albert
Votes: 2,729
66. Cattle Town (1952)
Approved | 71 min | Western
Post-civil-war Texas sells lands to wealthy Northerners but some of them are crooks bent on cheating the locals, prompting an investigation headed by the governor's envoy.
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Philip Carey, Amanda Blake, Rita Moreno
Votes: 222
67. Chained for Life (1952)
Not Rated | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Violet Hilton, Daisy Hilton, Mario Laval, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 501
68. Clash by Night (1952)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe
Votes: 7,359
69. Colorado Sundown (1952)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Music, Western
Rancher helps a friend claim a spread he's inherited, only to get involved in his murder.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Rex Allen, Koko, Mary Ellen Kay, Slim Pickens
Votes: 185
70. Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance
An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore, Richard Jaeckel
Votes: 5,386
71. Cripple Creek (1952)
Approved | 78 min | Western
Lawmen infiltrate bandit gang to catch mining crooks.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: George Montgomery, Karin Booth, Jerome Courtland, William Bishop
Votes: 429
72. Confidence Girl (1952)
Not Rated | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two conartists swindle a Los Angeles department store out of a mink coat, cheat a pawnbroker out of $8000 and leave the police baffled.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Tom Conway, Hillary Brooke, Eddie Marr, Dan Riss
Votes: 264
74. Dead Man's Trail (1952)
Approved | 59 min | Western
Texas Ranger Johnny Mack Brown (Johnny Mack Brown) is assigned to apprehend Walt Winslow (Dale Van Sickel), an escaped convict imprisoned for a $100,000 express robbery, from which the loot... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Barbara Wooddell, I. Stanford Jolley
Votes: 21
75. Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
With his newspaper about to be sold, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson tries to complete an exposé on gangster Rienzi.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley
Votes: 4,100
76. Denver & Rio Grande (1952)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Western
A romanticized history of the building of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the Colorado mountains.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Kasey Rogers
Votes: 618
77. Desert Passage (1952)
Passed | 62 min | Western
Two Arizona stagecoach line owners are hired by a paroled bank embezzler to take him, and his hidden loot, to Mexico but things don't go as planned.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Walter Reed, Dorothy Patrick
Votes: 235
78. Desert Pursuit (1952)
Approved | 71 min | Drama, Western
In the mid-late 1800's camels were imported to various regions of the American southwestern deserts as pack animals and natives from the middle eastern countries came along as drivers and ... See full summary »
Director: George Blair | Stars: Wayne Morris, Virginia Grey, George Tobias, Anthony Caruso
Votes: 117
79. Desperadoes' Outpost (1952)
Passed | 54 min | Drama, Western
Nugget Clark has been having his stagecoaches wrecked and Federal Investigator Rocky Lane arrives to investigate. The foreman of a nearby mine is stealing part of the mercury output and ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Allan Lane, Black Jack, Eddy Waller, Roy Barcroft
Votes: 56
80. Desperate Search (1952)
Approved | 73 min | Adventure, Drama
The family and friends of two children lost in the wilderness mount a desperate search to find them.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Howard Keel, Jane Greer, Patricia Medina, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 343
81. Diplomatic Courier (1952)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A US State Department courier tangles with Soviet agents and seductive women in post WW2 Europe.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Stephen McNally, Hildegard Knef
Votes: 1,427
82. Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes she's dangerous.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran
Votes: 8,494
83. Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Mitzi Gaynor, David Wayne
Votes: 161
84. Dreamboat (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor, is plagued when his old movies are shown on TV and sets out with his daughter to stop it. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing his films and she has other plans.
Director: Claude Binyon | Stars: Clifton Webb, Ginger Rogers, Anne Francis, Jeffrey Hunter
Votes: 958
85. Eight Iron Men (1952)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, War
During WW2 in Italy, Sergeant Joe Mooney is leading his small squad on the front-lines but is ordered to avoid rescuing a soldier trapped in no man's land.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Bonar Colleano, Arthur Franz, Lee Marvin, Richard Kiley
Votes: 712
86. Ellis in Freedomland (1952)
Not Rated | 82 min
Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland."
Director: Abby Berlin | Stars: Betty Furness, Edward Arnold, James Mason, Percy Kilbride
Votes: 16
88. Everything I Have Is Yours (1952)
Approved | 92 min | Musical
Pregnancy forces one half of a married song- and- dance team to find a new Broadway partner.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Dennis O'Keefe, Monica Lewis
Votes: 220
89. Face to Face (1952)
89 min | Western, Drama
Two stories. In the first, a sea captain has to conceal a man's presence aboard ship from his crew. In the second, a Wild West lawman has to deal with a troublemaker bent on bloodshed before he can concentrate on matrimony.
Directors: John Brahm, Bretaigne Windust | Stars: James Mason, Gene Lockhart, Michael Pate, Albert Sharpe
Votes: 99
90. Fargo (1952)
Passed | 69 min | Western
Bill's brother dies due to a stampede started by cattlemen. Barb wire is installed to keep herds away from lands cultivated by farmers. The cattlemen state that the wire is dangerous to their herds but lose the case in court. War begins.
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Bill Elliott, Myron Healey, Phyllis Coates, Fuzzy Knight
Votes: 174
91. Fearless Fagan (1952)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy
A man brings his devoted pet with him when he is drafted into the army. The pet happens to be an adult lion, named Fearless Fagan. Based on a true story.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Janet Leigh, Carleton Carpenter, Keenan Wynn, Richard Anderson
Votes: 379 | Gross: $0.95M
92. Feng ye qing (1952)
135 min | Drama, Romance, War
American Sergeant falls in love with a Japanese woman.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Christian Drake, Mitsuko Kimura, Henry Nakamura, Jihei Akita
93. Feudin' Fools (1952)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy
Sach discovers that he is heir to a farm in rural hillbilly country. He and the boys go to the farm to check it out, and find themselves mixed up with feuding hillbillies and a gang of bank robbers.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Dorothy Ford, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 312
94. Flaming Feather (1952)
Approved | 77 min | Western
In Arizona,during the 1870s, rancher Tex McCloud and cavalry Lt. Tom Blaine race to capture the famous renegade outlaw Ute leader known as the Sidewinder.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Forrest Tucker, Arleen Whelan, Barbara Rush
Votes: 438
95. Flat Top (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, War
During the Korean War, aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, Navy Commander Dan Collier reminisces about his first assignment on the same aircraft carrier in the war against Japan.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, William Phipps, John Bromfield
Votes: 541
96. Flesh and Fury (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Sport
A deaf boxer is exploited by a gold-digging blonde.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Tony Curtis, Jan Sterling, Mona Freeman, Wallace Ford
Votes: 574
97. For Men Only (1952)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama
A college professor begins to suspect that a student's accidental death was tied to his refusal to take part in a traditional "hazing" and was no accident.
Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Paul Henreid, Margaret Field, James Dobson, Douglas Kennedy
Votes: 187
98. Fort Osage (1952)
Approved | 72 min | Western
A greedy Missouri merchant overcharges the westbound settlers for goods and for passage to California while also stealing the Osages' supplies who consequently start attacking all passing wagon trains.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Rod Cameron, Jane Nigh, Morris Ankrum, Douglas Kennedy
Votes: 208
99. Francis Goes to West Point (1952)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Lori Nelson, Alice Kelley, Gregg Palmer
Votes: 488
100. Geisha Girl (1952)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Romance
"Rocky" Wilson and his sidekick, Archer McGregor, American soldiers en route home from Korea, stop over in Tokyo. They instantly get involved in a sabotage plot and, inadvertently, end up ... See full summary »
Directors: George P. Breakston, C. Ray Stahl | Stars: Steve Forrest, Martha Hyer, Archer MacDonald, Tetsu Nakamura
Votes: 81
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