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)

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