1951

Film Decades: 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• The 13th Letter – directed by Otto Preminger, starring Linda Darnell and Charles Boyer
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Ace in the Hole (a.k.a. The Big Carnival) – directed by Billy Wilder, starring Kirk Douglas & Jan Sterling
• Across the Wide Missouri – directed by William A. Wellman, starring Clark Gable
• Adventures of Captain Fabian – starring Errol Flynn, Micheline Presle, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead
• The African Queen – directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart & Katharine Hepburn – (GB/US)
• Air Cadet, starring Gail Russell and Stephen McNally
• Alice in Wonderland, an animated film by Walt Disney
• Along the Great Divide – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Kirk Douglas
• An American in Paris** – directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron
• Angels in the Outfield, starring Paul Douglas and Janet Leigh
• Anna, starring Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone and Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)
• Another Man’s Poison, directed by Irving Rapper, starring Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams and Anthony Steel – (GB)
• Apache Drums, starring Stephen McNally and Coleen Gray
• Appointment with Danger, starring Alan Ladd, with future Dragnet (series) co-stars Jack Webb and Harry Morgan
• Appointment with Venus, starring Glynis Johns and David Niven – (U.K.)
• As Young as You Feel, starring Monty Woolley
• Atoll K, starring Laurel and Hardy in their final film
• Awaara (Tramp), directed by and starring Raj Kapoor – (India)
• The Axe of Wandsbek (Das Beil von Wandsbek) – (East Germany)
• Baazi (Gamble), starring Dev Anand – (India)
• Bedtime for Bonzo, starring Ronald Reagan (with a chimpanzee)
• Bellissima, directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Anna Magnani – (Italy)
• Blackmailed, starring Mai Zetterling and Dirk Bogarde – (GB)
• The Blue Veil, starring Jane Wyman
• Bride of the Gorilla – starring Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr., and Raymond Burr
• Bright Victory, starring Arthur Kennedy
• The Browning Version, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Michael Redgrave and Jean Kent – (GB)
• Bullfighter and the Lady – directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Robert Stack & Joy Page
• Callaway Went Thataway, starring Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel
• Call Me Mister, starring Betty Grable
• Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Gregory Peck – (GB)
• Cattle Drive, starring Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell and Chill Wills
• Cause for Alarm!, starring Loretta Young and Barry Sullivan
• Cave of Outlaws – directed by William Castle
• China Corsair, starring Jon Hall
• Circle of Danger, starring Ray Milland – (GB)
• Close to My Heart – directed by William Keighley, starring Ray Milland & Gene Tierney
• The Clouded Yellow – starring Trevor Howard & Jean Simmons – (GB)
• Come Fill the Cup, starring James Cagney and Gig Young
• Comin’ Round The Mountain, starring Abbott and Costello
• Cops and Robbers (Guardie e ladri), directed by Mario Monicelli – (Italy)
• Cry Danger, starring Dick Powell and Rhonda Fleming
• Cry, the Beloved Country, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Sidney Poitier – (GB)
• Darling, How Could You! – starring Joan Fontaine
• Daughter of Deceit (La hija del engaño), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)
• David and Bathsheba – directed by Henry King, starring Gregory Peck & Susan Hayward
• The Day the Earth Stood Still, directed by Robert Wise, starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal
• Death of a Salesman, starring Fredric March
• Decision Before Dawn, starring Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill and Oskar Werner
• Deedar, starring Ashok Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Nargis – (India)
• The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, starring James Mason
• Detective Story – directed by William Wyler, starring Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Lee Grant, Horace McMahon, & George Macready
• Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d’un curé de campagne), directed by Robert Bresson – (France)
• Distant Drums – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Gary Cooper
• Double Dynamite, starring Jane Russell, Frank Sinatra and Groucho Marx
• Dream of a Cossack (Kavalier zolotoy zvezdy), starring Sergei Bondarchuk – (U.S.S.R.)
• Daar Doer in Die Bosveld (Far Away in the Bushveld), starring Jamie Uys – (South Africa)
• Early Summer (Bakushū), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
• Encore, starring Nigel Patrick and Kay Walsh – (GB)
• The Enforcer (Murder, Inc.) – starring Humphrey Bogart & Zero Mostel
• FBI Girl, starring Audrey Totter and Cesar Romero
• The Family Secret, starring John Derek and Lee J. Cobb
• The Fat Man – directed by William Castle
• Father’s Little Dividend – directed by Vincente Minnellistarring Spencer Tracy & Elizabeth Taylor
• Flying Leathernecks – directed by Nicholas Ray, starring John Wayne and Robert Ryan
• Follow the Sun, starring Glenn Ford
• The Forbidden Christ (Il Cristo proibito), starring Raf Vallone – (Italy)
• Fort Worth – starring Randolph Scott
• Four in a Jeep (Die Vier im Jeep), starring Ralph Meeker and Viveca Lindfors – (Switzerland)
• Fourteen Hours – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Jeffrey Hunter and Grace Kelly
• The Frogmen, starring Richard Widmark and Dana Andrews
• Furrows (Surcos) – (Spain)
• Go for Broke!, starring Van Johnson
• Golden Girl, starring Mitzi Gaynor, Dale Robertson, Dennis Day
• The Golden Horde, starring Ann Blyth
• Goodbye My Fancy, starring Joan Crawford and Robert Young
• The Great Caruso, starring Mario Lanza
• The Groom Wore Spurs – starring Ginger Rogers
• Grounds for Marriage, starring Kathryn Grayson and Van Johnson
• The Guy Who Came Back – starring Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Joan Bennett, Don DeFore, Zero Mostel
• Half Angel, starring Loretta Young
• Happy Go Lovely, starring David Niven and Vera-Ellen – (GB)
• Hard, Fast and Beautiful – directed by Ida Lupino, starring Claire Trevor
• He Ran All the Way, starring John Garfield and Shelley Winters
• Here Comes the Groom – directed by Frank Capra, starring Bing Crosby
• His Kind of Woman – directed by John Farrow & Richard Fleischer (uncredited), starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price and Raymond Burr
• Hollywood Story – directed by William Castle
• The House in Montevideo (Das Haus in Montevideo) – (West Germany)
• The House on Telegraph Hill, starring Richard Basehart
• I Can Get It for You Wholesale, starring Susan Hayward
• I’ll Never Forget You
• I Want You, directed by Mark Robson, starring Dana Andrews
• The Idiot (Hakuchi) – directed by Akira Kurosawa – (Japan)
• Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison, starring Steve Cochran
• Jim Thorpe – All-American – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Burt Lancaster
• Journey Into Light, directed by Stuart Heisler, starring Sterling Hayden
• Juliette, or Key of Dreams (Juliette ou La clef des songes), directed by Marcel Carné – (France)
• Kind Lady – directed by John Sturges, starring Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Keenan Wynn, Angela Lansbury
• Kon-Tiki, a documentary directed by and starring Thor Heyerdahl – (Norway)
• The Last Outpost, starring Ronald Reagan
• Laughter in Paradise, starring Alastair Sim – (GB)
• The Lavender Hill Mob – directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James and Alfie Bass, with an early appearance by Audrey Hepburn – (GB)
• The Lemon Drop Kid, starring Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, William Frawley and Tor Johnson
• Let’s Go Crazy, starring Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers – (GB)
• Leva på ‘Hoppet’, starring Ingrid Thulin – (Sweden)
• Lightning Strikes Twice, starring Ruth Roman and Mercedes McCambridge
• Little Big Horn – starring Lloyd Bridges
• Little Egypt, starring Rhonda Fleming and Mark Stevens
• The Long Dark Hall, starring Rex Harrison – (GB)
• Lost Continent, starring Cesar Romero
• Love Nest – starring June Haver & Marilyn Monroe
• The Magic Box, starring Robert Donat, a biopic of William Friese-Greene – (GB)

• The Magnificent Yankee, starring Louis Calhern

• The Man with a Cloak, starring Joseph Cotten
• Malliswari, starring N.T. Rama Rao – (India)
• The Man in the White Suit, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough and Ernest Thesiger – (GB)
• The Mating Season – starring Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, & Thelma Ritter
• The Medium, starring Marie Powers – (Italy)
• Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano), directed by Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
• Miss Julie (Fröken Julie), directed by Alf Sjöberg – (Sweden)
• The Model and the Marriage Broker – starring Jeanne Crain, Thelma Ritter, Scott Brady, Zero Mostel
• Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell – starring Clifton Webb, Joanne Dru, Hugh Marlowe, Zero Mostel
• Mr. Imperium, starring Lana Turner and Ezio Pinza
• My Favorite Spy – directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Bob Hope & Hedy Lamarr
• New Mexico, starring Lew Ayres and Marilyn Maxwell
• The Night Before Christmas (Noch pered Rozhdestvom) – (U.S.S.R.)
• No Highway in the Sky – directed by Henry Koster, starring James Stewart, Glynis Johns & Marlene Dietrich – (GB)
• Olivia, directed by Jacqueline Audry – (France)
• On Dangerous Ground – directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Ida Lupino & Robert Ryan
• On Moonlight Bay, starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae
• On the Riviera, starring Danny Kaye
• One Summer of Happiness (Hon dansade en sommar) – (Sweden)
• Only the Valiant, starring Gregory Peck
• Painting the Clouds with Sunshine, starring Virginia Mayo
• Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, starring Ava Gardner and James Mason – (GB)
• Paris Vice Squad (Identité judiciaire) – (France)
• Payment on Demand, starring Bette Davis and Barry Sullivan
• Penny Points to Paradise, starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan – (GB)
• The People Against O’Hara – directed by John Sturges, starring Spencer Tracy
• People Will Talk – starring Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn and Finlay Currie
• A Place in the Sun – directed by George Stevens, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, & Raymond Burr
• Pool of London, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice and Earl Cameron – (GB)
• The Prowler, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Van Heflin and Evelyn Keyes
• Quo Vadis, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov and Leo Genn
• The Racket, starring Robert Mitchum
• The Raging Tide, starring Richard Conte and Shelley Winters
• Rawhide, starring Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward
• The Red Badge of Courage – directed by John Huston, starring Audie Murphy
• Red Mountain, starring Alan Ladd & Lizabeth Scott
• Repast (Meshi), directed by Mikio Naruse, written by the novelist Yasunari Kawabata – (Japan)
• El revoltoso (The Rebellious) – (Mexico)
• Rhubarb, starring Ray Milland, Jan Sterling, William Frawley and Leonard Nimoy
• Rich, Young and Pretty, starring Jane Powell
• The River (Le Fleuve), directed by Jean Renoir – (France/India/US)
• Royal Wedding – directed by Stanley Donen, starring Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford & Jane Powell
• …Sans laisser d’adresse (No Forwarding Address), starring Bernard Blier and Danièle Delorme – (France)
• Santa Fe – starring Randolph Scott
• Saturday’s Hero, starring John Derek and Donna Reed
• Scrooge (A Christmas Carol), starring Alastair Sim – (GB)
• The Secret of Convict Lake – starring Glenn Ford & Gene Tierney
• Selamat Berdjuang, Masku!, starring Raden Sukarno and Marlia Hardi – (Indonesia)
• Show Boat, a remake of the hit musical, starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, and Ava Gardner, with songs by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern
• Silver City, starring Edmond O’Brien and Yvonne De Carlo
• The Sinner, directed by Willi Forst, starring Hildegard Knef and Gustav Fröhlich (West Germany)
• Sirocco – starring Humphrey Bogart, Märta Torén, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane, Gerald Mohr, Zero Mostel
• Slaughter Trail, starring Gig Young and Virginia Grey
• Smuggler’s Island, starring Jeff Chandler and Evelyn Keyes
• Spring Season (Bahar), first Hindi film of Vyjayanthimala and the producer A. V. Meiyappan – (India)
• Starlift, starring Janice Rule and Ruth Roman
• The Steel Helmet, directed by Samuel Fuller
• Storm Warning – starring Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan and Doris Day
• The Strange Door, starring Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff
• Strangers on a Train – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Farley Granger & Robert Walker
• A Streetcar Named Desire – directed by Elia Kazan, starring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, & Karl Malden
• Strictly Dishonorable, starring Ezio Pinza and Janet Leigh
• The Strip, starring Mickey Rooney and Sally Forrest
• Sugarfoot – starring Randolph Scott
• Summer Interlude (Sommarlek) – directed by Ingmar Bergman – (Sweden)
• Superman and the Mole Men, starring George Reeves
• Susana (a.k.a. The Devil and the Flesh), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)
• The Sword of Monte Cristo, starring George Montgomery
• Take Care of My Little Girl – directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Jeanne Crain & Mitzi Gaynor
• A Tale of Five Cities (Passaporto per l’oriente) – (Italy/GB)
• The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) – (Japan)
• The Tales of Hoffmann, a cinematic opera directed by Powell and Pressburger and starring Moira Shearer – (GB)
• The Tall Target – directed by Anthony Mann, starring Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson & Ruby Dee
• Teresa – directed by Fred Zinnermann, starring Pier Angeli & John Ericson
• That Happy Couple (Esa pareja feliz), directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and Luis García Berlanga – (Spain)
• That’s My Boy, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• The Thing from Another World – produced by Howard Hawks, starring Kenneth Tobey and James Arness as the title creature
• Three Guys Named Mike, starring Jane Wyman
• Thunder on the Hill – directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Claudette Colbert & Ann Blyth
• Tom Brown’s Schooldays, starring John Howard Davies and Robert Newton – (GB)
• Tomahawk, starring Van Heflin and Yvonne De Carlo
• Two of a Kind, starring Edmond O’Brien and Lizabeth Scott
• Two Tickets to Broadway, starring Janet Leigh, Tony Martin, Gloria DeHaven
• Vengeance Valley, starring Burt Lancaster and Joanne Dru
• Victimas del Pecado (Victims of Sin) – (Mexico)
• Warpath, starring Edmond O’Brien, Forrest Tucker, Polly Bergen
• Warsaw Premiere, directed by Jan Rybkowski (Poland)
• The Well, starring Harry Morgan
• Westward the Women, starring Robert Taylor
• When Worlds Collide, starring Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Larry Keating, John Hoyt and Hayden Rorke
• Where No Vultures Fly, directed by Harry Watt, starring Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Harold Warrender and Meredith Edwards – (U.K.)
• You Never Can Tell, starring Dick Powell
• Young Wives’ Tale, starring Joan Greenwood – (GB)
• You’re in the Navy Now – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Gary Cooper
• Your Day Will Come (Lak Yawm Ya Zalem) – (Egypt)