List of Universal Pictures films (1950–1959)
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1. The Rugged O'Riordans (1949)
Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers, on the virgin plateaus of the Australian bush country. In addition to being beset with the obstacles and difficulties with the... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chauvel | Stars: Michael Pate, Ken Wayne, Tommy Burns, John Unicomb
Votes: 92
2. Woman in Hiding (1950)
Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After her father is killed in an accident, mill heiress Deborah Chandler marries the plant manager, Selden Clark, but his motives are suspicious.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff, Peggy Dow
Votes: 1,511
3. Francis (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named Francis speaks to him.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Patricia Medina, Zasu Pitts, Ray Collins
Votes: 1,456
4. Outside the Wall (1950)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A paroled convict's infatuation with a gold-digger nurse working at a sanitarium leads him to crime.
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Richard Basehart, Marilyn Maxwell, Signe Hasso, Dorothy Hart
Votes: 409
5. The Astonished Heart (1950)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance
This movie begins with a scene in which Barbara (Celia Johnson) rings Leonora (Margaret Leighton) to tell her that something has happened to Chris (Noël Coward). At this point, we don't ... See full summary »
Directors: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher | Stars: Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, Margaret Leighton, Joyce Carey
Votes: 452
6. The Kid from Texas (1950)
Approved | 78 min | Western
In New Mexico, Billy the Kid is involved in the Lincoln County War, kills many rivals and eventually becomes a wanted fugitive.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Audie Murphy, Gale Storm, Albert Dekker, Shepperd Strudwick
Votes: 797
7. Buccaneer's Girl (1950)
Approved | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A New Orleans entertainer falls for a pirate who has another identity.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend, Robert Douglas, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 689
8. Borderline (1950)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two undercover agents infiltrate a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico, but neither is aware of the other's identity.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr, José Torvay
Votes: 1,629
9. One Way Street (1950)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: James Mason, Märta Torén, Dan Duryea, Basil Ruysdael
Votes: 786
10. Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Crime
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall
Votes: 876
11. Comanche Territory (1950)
Approved | 76 min | Western
White settlers plan to defy the agreement between the government and the Comanche in order to mine for silver on Comanche lands, while scout Jim Bowie tries to keep the peace in the territory.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Macdonald Carey, Will Geer, Charles Drake
Votes: 805
12. I Was a Shoplifter (1950)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In 1950s California, the police force tries to infiltrate and neutralize a shoplifting crime ring operating in major department stores.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Scott Brady, Mona Freeman, Andrea King, Tony Curtis
Votes: 449
13. Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Gale Storm, Walter Brennan, Vincent Price
Votes: 127
14. Louisa (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
To her family's discomfiture, grandmother Louisa starts dating two men...a grocer and her son's boss.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 546
15. Sierra (1950)
Approved | 83 min | Western
A tomboy frontier lawyer finds an outlaw and his son hiding out from a false murder charge.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Audie Murphy, Wanda Hendrix, Burl Ives, Dean Jagger
Votes: 1,082
16. Spy Hunt (1950)
Not Rated | 74 min | Action, Crime, Drama
During the Cold War, a microfilm concealed in the collar of a panther, transported by freight rail, is sought by several spies after the animal escapes its cage following the train's derailment in Switzerland.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Howard Duff, Märta Torén, Philip Friend, Robert Douglas
Votes: 248
17. The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy
A young boy receives a rocking horse for Christmas and soon learns that he is able to pick the winning horse at the races.
Director: Anthony Pelissier | Stars: Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire, John Mills
Votes: 1,414
18. Peggy (1950)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy
After Professor Brookfield and his pretty daughters Peggy and Susan move into the small town Pasadena in California, their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding immediately takes over control, helps ... See full summary »
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Diana Lynn, Charles Coburn, Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Lawrence
Votes: 118
19. Winchester '73 (1950)
Passed | 92 min | Action, Drama, Western
A cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally
Votes: 21,984
20. Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy
Two Brooklyn wrestling promoters go to French Algeria in search of a famous Algerian wrestler but accidentally end-up in the French Foreign Legion.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patricia Medina, Walter Slezak
Votes: 3,119
21. The Desert Hawk (1950)
Passed | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Greene, Jackie Gleason, George Macready
Votes: 321
22. South Sea Sinner (1950)
Approved | 88 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
On a South Sea island, a local hoodlum tries to blackmail a tramp steamer's sick crewman who's wanted for wartime collaboration with the Japanese and desperate to clear his name.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Shelley Winters, Luther Adler, Frank Lovejoy
Votes: 139
23. Madeleine (1950)
Approved | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man; they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks
Votes: 2,033
24. Shakedown (1950)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Unscrupulous and opportunistic San Francisco news media photographer Jack Early steps on and uses folks to get ahead, but in the end he tangles with the wrong people.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, Brian Donlevy, Lawrence Tierney
Votes: 731
25. Saddle Tramp (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Western
A saddle tramp unexpectedly becomes foster parent to four children for whom he provides by working on a ranch that's embroiled in a feud with another ranch and cattle rustlers.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Joel McCrea, Wanda Hendrix, John Russell, John McIntire
Votes: 691
26. The Sleeping City (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In New York, the murder of a Bellevue Hospital intern prompts the police to send an undercover detective to investigate.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Richard Conte, Coleen Gray, Richard Taber, John Alexander
Votes: 850
27. The Milkman (1950)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy
Roger Bradley, son of a milk magnate, isn't allowed to work for his dad's company because of a lingering war trauma: in moments of stress he quacks like a duck. Desperate to escape from ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Jimmy Durante, Piper Laurie, Joyce Holden
Votes: 254
28. Wyoming Mail (1950)
Passed | 87 min | Western
In 1869, when the railroad mail service is threatened by frequent bandit attacks, the government hires Steve Davis to infiltrate a gang in order to destroy it from inside.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Howard Da Silva, Ed Begley
Votes: 274
29. Deported (1950)
Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An American gangster sent back to his home country falls in love with a widowed countess.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Märta Torén, Jeff Chandler, Claude Dauphin, Marina Berti
Votes: 339
30. Undercover Girl (1950)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young woman joins the Police Department in order to track down the killer who murdered her father.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Alexis Smith, Scott Brady, Richard Egan, Gladys George
Votes: 208
31. Kansas Raiders (1950)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy, Marguerite Chapman, Scott Brady
Votes: 1,354
32. Woman on the Run (1950)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Frank Johnson becomes an eyewitness to a murder. He's pursued around San Francisco by his wife, the police, and the killer.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen
Votes: 4,839
33. Harvey (1950)
Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six foot-tall rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane - but he may be wiser than anyone knows.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: James Stewart, Wallace Ford, William H. Lynn, Victoria Horne
Votes: 58,241
34. Frenchie (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Western
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 569
35. Mystery Submarine (1950)
Approved | 78 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Posing as an ex-German medical officer, a U.S. Navy intelligence officer sets out to rescue a kidnapped scientist and sink a German submarine hiding off the coast of South America.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Carl Esmond
Votes: 191
36. Tomahawk (1951)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Western
In 1866 Wyoming, a frontier scout tries to prevent a war between the Sioux and the U.S. after the Army builds a road and a fort on territory previously ceded to the Sioux by treaty.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Van Heflin, Yvonne De Carlo, Alex Nicol, Preston Foster
Votes: 1,044
37. The Magnet (1950)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy
A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox, Meredith Edwards
Votes: 611
38. Target Unknown (1951)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, War
In 1944, an American bomber squadron is tense and discontented from too many missions over France. Luck runs out for Capt. Stevens and his crew; they must bail out and are promptly taken ... See full summary »
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Mark Stevens, Alex Nicol, Robert Douglas, Don Taylor
Votes: 76
39. Up Front (1951)
Approved | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Based on the famed World War II cartoons, lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe, on the Italian front, are good soldiers in combat, but meet the antics of gung-ho Captain Johnson and other military ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: David Wayne, Tom Ewell, Marina Berti, Jeffrey Lynn
Votes: 116
40. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Family, Horror
Two bumbling private eyes help a man, wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible, to clear his name.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild, Arthur Franz
Votes: 6,097 | Gross: $3.38M
41. Air Cadet (1951)
Approved | 94 min | Biography, Drama, War
A group of cadets have assorted problems at the U.S. Air Force Pilot Training Academy.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Stephen McNally, Gail Russell, Alex Nicol, Richard Long
Votes: 175
42. The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy
An attorney is hired to keep a dumb cowboy out of trouble.
Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson, Joan Davis, Stanley Ridges
Votes: 386
43. Katie Did It (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
Katherine Standish, who has been brought up in a strict manner in a prudish New England town, falls in love with a city slicker commercial artist, Peter Van Arden. The romance blossoms ... See full summary »
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Ann Blyth, Mark Stevens, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White
Votes: 155
44. Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
A college professor attempts to salvage his personal and professional reputation by using a laboratory chimpanzee to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak, Lucille Barkley
Votes: 1,106
45. Double Crossbones (1951)
Approved | 76 min | Adventure
After being falsely accused of dishonesty, a young man decides to become a pirate.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Helena Carter, Will Geer, John Emery
Votes: 361
46. Apache Drums (1951)
Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, Willard Parker, Arthur Shields
Votes: 943
47. Francis Goes to the Races (1951)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The owner of a talking mule, now a horse-breeder, gets involved with gangsters.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Piper Laurie, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White
Votes: 572
48. Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygienically".
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall
Votes: 865
49. Smuggler's Island (1951)
Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
In 1950s Macao, an American expat diver is hired by a mysterious woman to retrieve a sunken cargo that eventually attracts unwanted attention from a crooked banker, corrupt authorities and local pirates.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Philip Friend, Marvin Miller
Votes: 126
50. The Fat Man (1951)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A dentist's murder is investigated by hefty sleuth Brad Runyan.
Director: William Castle | Stars: J. Scott Smart, Julie London, Rock Hudson, Clinton Sundberg
Votes: 559
51. Hollywood Story (1951)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director in 1929.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull
Votes: 923
52. The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951)
Approved | 88 min | Adventure
In 13th-century Tangiers, regent Mustapha hires a paid assassin to kill baby Prince Hussein in order to usurp his throne but the assassin has second thoughts and steals the baby for himself.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Everett Sloane, Jeff Corey
Votes: 785
53. Mark of the Renegade (1951)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
Set in 19th century California Marcos Zappa goes undercover as a pirate to expose the crooked Don Pedro Garcia.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Charisse, J. Carrol Naish, Gilbert Roland
Votes: 248
54. Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
77 min | Comedy, Musical
Bud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies, witches and love potions.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dorothy Shay, Kirby Grant
Votes: 1,454
55. Bright Victory (1951)
Approved | 97 min | Drama, Romance, War
After he gets blinded by a German sniper's bullet in 1943, Sergeant Larry Nevins begins the long and painful road to recovery.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julie Adams, James Edwards
Votes: 978
56. Cattle Drive (1951)
Approved | 77 min | Western
A cowboy finds the spoiled son of a railroad magnate lost in the deserted hills and teaches him survival skills and hard work values.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills, Leon Ames
Votes: 770
57. Little Egypt (1951)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A belly dancer causes a scandal with her "suggestive" and "immoral" dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Mark Stevens, Rhonda Fleming, Nancy Guild, Charles Drake
Votes: 59
58. The Lady from Texas (1951)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Western
An eccentric Civil War widow is accused of being insane.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Howard Duff, Mona Freeman, Josephine Hull, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 106
59. Iron Man (1951)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Stephen McNally, Rock Hudson
Votes: 309
60. You Never Can Tell (1951)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
An ex-army dog inherits a fortune from his eccentric millionaire owner, and which is poisoned, asks the leader in the heaven for animals to send him back to Earth, as a human private investigator, to solve his own murder.
Director: Lou Breslow | Stars: Dick Powell, Peggy Dow, Joyce Holden, Charles Drake
Votes: 786
61. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime
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.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass
Votes: 15,560
62. Thunder on the Hill (1951)
Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Convicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas, Anne Crawford
Votes: 1,287
63. The Browning Version (1951)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Andrew Crocker-Harris (Michael Redgrave), a classics teacher at an English school, is afflicted with a heart ailment and an unfaithful wife (Jean Kent). His interest in his pupils wanes as he looks towards his final days in employment.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 5,438
64. The Lady Pays Off (1951)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The naive Evelyn Warren, elected shool-teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino-manager Matt Braddock asks her to take care of his sad little daughter Diana.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Gigi Perreau, Virginia Field
Votes: 159
65. The Golden Horde (1951)
Approved | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Ann Blyth, David Farrar, George Macready, Henry Brandon
Votes: 230
66. Reunion in Reno (1951)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Mark Stevens, Peggy Dow, Gigi Perreau, Frances Dee
Votes: 36
67. Pool of London (1951)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama
When their ship docks the crew disembark as usual to pick up their lives in postwar London. For one of them his petty smuggling turns more serious when he finds himself caught up with a robbery in the City.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renée Asherson, Earl Cameron
Votes: 1,182
68. The Raging Tide (1951)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After a San Francisco gangster murders a rival criminal, he seeks shelter on a fisherman's boat while the police are man-hunting him and pressuring his girlfriend into betrayal.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Shelley Winters, Richard Conte, Stephen McNally, Charles Bickford
Votes: 396
69. Cave of Outlaws (1951)
Passed | 76 min | Western
Released after serving 15 years in prison for train robbery Pete Carver being the only survivor of the gang goes looking for the loot in the caves where it was hidden.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Alexis Smith, Edgar Buchanan, Victor Jory
Votes: 388
70. The Strange Door (1951)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Thriller
Noble-born cad Denis (Stapley) has been tricked into a forced stay at the eerie manor of the Sire de Maletroit (Laughton), an evil madman who can't get over the death of his beloved, 20 ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest, Richard Stapley
Votes: 1,259
71. Flame of Araby (1951)
Approved | 77 min | Adventure
An Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Jeff Chandler, Maxwell Reed, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 339
72. Week-End with Father (1951)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
Single parents Jean Bowen and Brad Stubbs meet at the train station when they send their kids (his two girls, her two boys) off to camp. Love inevitably blooms. But there are complications:... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Van Heflin, Patricia Neal, Gigi Perreau, Virginia Field
Votes: 277
73. The Cimarron Kid (1952)
Passed | 84 min | Western
Unjustly accused of robbing the train he was riding home, Bill Doolin re-joins his old gang, participates in other robberies and becomes a wanted outlaw.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Audie Murphy, Beverly Tyler, James Best, Yvette Duguay
Votes: 1,144
74. 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
75. Finders Keepers (1951)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy
The amusing story of a young child, who, after playing outside, goes back into the house with - literally - a truckload of money, the spoils of a robbers' heist....
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Tom Ewell, Julie Adams, Evelyn Varden, Dusty Henley
Votes: 35
76. Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy
While Ozzie tries to get some publicity for an ad agency, David and Ricky get mixed up with gangsters.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson
Votes: 249
77. The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952)
Approved | 82 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In California, a boy and his adoptive father find an outlaw's hidden treasure but the news leaks out, sending unscrupulous characters after the gold.
Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: William Powell, Julie Adams, Charles Drake, Rosemary DeCamp
Votes: 239
78. Meet Danny Wilson (1952)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Musical
A nightclub singer has a racketeer for a manager and a rivalry with his pianist for a girl.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Shelley Winters, Alex Nicol, Raymond Burr
Votes: 472
79. 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
80. Steel Town (1952)
Approved | 85 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Steve Kostain (Lund), nephew of the owner, begins working at a steel mill to learn the business from the bottom up. He rooms with a steel working family, the McNamaras, and falls for the ... See full summary »
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Ann Sheridan, John Lund, Howard Duff, William Harrigan
Votes: 133
81. The Battle at Apache Pass (1952)
Approved | 85 min | Western
When Cochise bands together with Geronimo and other Indian tribes, Major Colton abandons his fort, heading towards Fort Sheridan, through Apache Pass. The only thing in his way are the Indians he used to call his friends.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Lund, Jeff Chandler, Susan Cabot, Bruce Cowling
Votes: 720
82. Red Ball Express (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Action, Drama, War
Story of the military truck drivers who kept the Allied armies supplied in Europe during World War II.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake, Judith Braun
Votes: 810
83. Red Ball Express (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Action, Drama, War
Story of the military truck drivers who kept the Allied armies supplied in Europe during World War II.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake, Judith Braun
Votes: 810
84. Scarlet Angel (1952)
Approved | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Pursued by a sea captain, larcenous saloon queen Roxy McClanahan assumes the identity of a Civil War widow with wealthy relatives.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Denning, Whitfield Connor
Votes: 246
85. Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Musical
An aging heir-less millionaire wants to leave his fortune to the unsuspecting family of his first love but not before testing his prospective heirs by living with them under the guise of a poor boarder.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Gigi Perreau
Votes: 1,819
86. 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
87. Just Across the Street (1952)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Romance
Daft comedy about a toilet repair man's secretary who pretends to be wealthy.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Ann Sheridan, John Lund, Robert Keith, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 37
88. Island Rescue (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During WW2, British Major Valentine Moreland is tasked with rescuing a prized pedigree cow from the German-occupied Channel Island of Armorel.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: David Niven, Glynis Johns, George Coulouris, Barry Jones
Votes: 380
89. Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)
Approved | 78 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, James Best, Lori Nelson
Votes: 658
90. White Corridors (1951)
102 min | Drama
Hospital drama set at the Yeoman's Hospital, in the English Midlands, during the early 1950s.
Director: Pat Jackson | Stars: Googie Withers, James Donald, Godfrey Tearle, Petula Clark
Votes: 140
91. Untamed Frontier (1952)
Approved | 78 min | Western
Squeezed between Mexico and the Denbow family lands lies the U.S. government free grazing land but the incoming settlers cannot reach it without trespassing on the Denbow property which is defended by an army of Denbow cowhands.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Shelley Winters, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball
Votes: 426
92. Lost in Alaska (1952)
76 min | Adventure, Comedy
Two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide. However, once they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder, they travel with the prospector to Alaska to help ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mitzi Green, Tom Ewell
Votes: 2,147
93. Sally and Saint Anne (1952)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy
Sally O'Moyne, a good-natured but awkward school-girl lives with her extended and eccentric Irish-American clan. One day at school, unable to find her lunch bucket, Sally says a prayer to ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Ann Blyth, Edmund Gwenn, John McIntire, Gregg Palmer
Votes: 144
94. 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
95. Son of Ali Baba (1952)
Approved | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Kashma Baba, the son of the famed Baghdad thief Ali Baba is a cadet in a medieval Persian military academy where he runs afoul of his rival Hussein, the evil Caliph's son.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Susan Cabot, William Reynolds
Votes: 890
96. It Grows on Trees (1952)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Fantasy
What happens when an American family gets two trees that grow spendable money.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Irene Dunne, Dean Jagger, Joan Evans, Richard Crenna
Votes: 367
97. The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)
Approved | 77 min | Western
Marshal Tyrone and the Silver Kid form an uneasy alliance against a gang of claim jumpers.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Audie Murphy, Faith Domergue, Stephen McNally, Susan Cabot
Votes: 1,899
98. 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
99. Yankee Buccaneer (1952)
Approved | 86 min | Adventure, History, Romance
Captain David Porter of the fledgling American Navy receives orders to masquerade as a privateer in order to corral some Caribbean pirates.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 365
100. The World in His Arms (1952)
Approved | 104 min | Action, Adventure, History
In 1850 San Francisco, a Russian Countess runs away from an arranged marriage to a Russian Prince and falls into the arms of an American sea captain who occasionally poaches seals in Russian Alaska.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn, John McIntire
Votes: 2,333 | Gross: $3.00M
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