1952

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)

• 1st of April, 2000 – (Austria)
• 5 Fingers – directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring James Mason
• Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Above and Beyond, starring Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker
• Affair in Trinidad – starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford
• Against All Flags – starring Errol Flynn and Maureen O’Hara
• Alraune, starring Hildegard Knef and Erich von Stroheim – (West Germany)
• Andrine og Kjell – (Norway)
• Androcles and the Lion, starring Jean Simmons and Victor Mature
• Angel Face, starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons
• Angels One Five, starring Jack Hawkins – (GB)
• Anhonee, starring Raj Kapoor and Nargis – (India)
• At Sword’s Point – starring Maureen O’Hara and Cornel Wilde
• The Atomic City, starring Gene Barry and Lydia Clarke
• Babes in Bagdad, starring Paulette Goddard and Gypsy Rose Lee
• The Bad and the Beautiful, starring Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame
• Baiju Bawra, starring Meena Kumari – (India)
• The Beast Must Die (La Bestia debe morir) – (Argentina)
• Because of You, starring Loretta Young
• Because You’re Mine, starring Mario Lanza
• The Belle of New York – starring Fred Astaire and Vera-Ellen
• Les Belles de nuit (Beauties of the Night), directed by René Clair – (France)
• Belles on Their Toes, starring Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Debra Paget
• Bend of the River – directed by Anthony Mann, starring James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson
• Beware, My Lovely, starring Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan
• Big Jim McLain – starring John Wayne and James Arness
• The Big Sky, starring Kirk Douglas
• The Big Trees, starring Kirk Douglas
• The Black Castle, starring Stephen McNally, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr.
• Blackbeard the Pirate, starring Robert Newton
• Brandy for the Parson, starring James Donald and Kenneth More – (GB)
• Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory, starring Clayton Moore
• The Bushwackers, starring John Ireland and Lawrence Tierney
• California Conquest, starring Cornel Wilde and Teresa Wright
• Captive Women, starring Robert Clarke
• Carbine Williams – starring James Stewart and Jean Hagen
• The Card, starring Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Petula Clark – (GB)
• Carrie, starring Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins
• Carson City – starring Randolph Scott
• Casque d’Or (Golden Helmet), directed by Jacques Becker, starring Simone Signoret – (France)
• Children of Hiroshima (Gembaku no ko) – (Japan)
• Ciguli Miguli – (Yugoslavia)
• The City Stands Trial (Processo alla città), directed by Luigi Zampa – (Italy)
• Clash by Night – directed by Fritz Lang, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe
• Come Back, Little Sheba, starring Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth
• The Crimson Pirate, starring Burt Lancaster
• Dark River (Las aguas bajan turbias) – (Argentina)
• Deadline – U.S.A. – directed by Richard Brooks, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Jim Backus, Martin Gabel
• Denver and Rio Grande, starring Edmond O’Brien and Sterling Hayden
• Derby Day, starring Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding – (Britain)
• Desperate Search, starring Howard Keel and Jane Greer
• The Devil Makes Three – starring Gene Kelly
• Diplomatic Courier – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Tyrone Power
• Don’t Bother to Knock – starring Richard Widmark, Anne Bancroft, Marilyn Monroe
• Down Among the Z Men, starring The Goons – (GB)
• Dreamboat – starring Ginger Rogers, Clifton Webb, Elsa Lanchester, Anne Francis
• Emergency Call, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Jack Warner, Anthony Steel, Joy Shelton and Freddie Mills – (U.K.)
• Europa ’51 – directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman – (Italy)
• The Eyes Leave Tracks (Los ojos dejan huella), starring Raf Vallone – (Spain)
• Face to Face, starring James Mason and Robert Preston
• Fanfan la Tulipe (a.k.a. Fearless Little Soldier), starring Gérard Philipe and Gina Lollobrigida – (France)
• Flaming Feather, starring Sterling Hayden
• Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice ( Ochazuke no aji), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
• Flesh and Fury, starring Tony Curtis and Jan Sterling
• Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits), directed by René Clément – (France)
• A Girl in Every Port, starring Groucho Marx, William Bendix, Marie Wilson, Dee Hartford
• The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d’or), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Anna Magnani – (France/Italy)
• The Greatest Show on Earth – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Gloria Grahame, Dorothy Lamour, James Stewart
• Hangman’s Knot – starring Randolph Scott, Donna Reed, Lee Marvin
• Hans Christian Andersen – directed by Charles Vidor, starring Danny Kaye and Farley Granger
• The Happy Family, directed by Muriel Box, starring Stanley Holloway and Kathleen Harrison – (GB)
• The Happy Time, starring Charles Boyer and Bobby Driscoll
• Has Anybody Seen My Gal?, starring Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn
• Heidi, directed by Luigi Comencini – (Switzerland)
• Hellgate, starring Sterling Hayden
• Hiawatha, starring Vince Edwards
• High Noon – directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly
• Los hijos de María Morales (The Children of Maria Morales), starring Pedro Infante – (Mexico)
• Holiday for Sinners, starring Gig Young and Janice Rule
• The Holly and the Ivy, starring Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson – (GB)
• Home at Seven, directed by and starring Ralph Richardson – (GB)
• Horizons West – directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Robert Ryan, Rock Hudson, Raymond Burr
• Hunted, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Dirk Bogarde and Jon Whiteley – (GB)
• The I Don’t Care Girl, starring Mitzi Gaynor and Oscar Levant
• I Dream of Jeanie, starring Bill Shirley
• Ikiru (To Live) – directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Takashi Shimura – (Japan)
• The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Michael Redgrave – (GB)
• Indian Uprising, starring George Montgomery
• It Grows on Trees, starring Irene Dunne
• Ivanhoe – starring Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine, Elizabeth Taylor
• Jaal (Net), starring Dev Anand – (India)
• Jack and the Beanstalk, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Japanese War Bride, starring Shirley Yamaguchi and Don Taylor
• The Jazz Singer, starring Danny Thomas and Peggy Lee
• Jolanda la figlia del corsaro nero (Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair) – (Italy)
• Jumping Jacks, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Just This Once, starring Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford
• Kangaroo – starring Maureen O’Hara, Peter Lawford
• Kansas City Confidential, starring John Payne and Coleen Gray
• Kid Monk Baroni, starring Leonard Nimoy
• Lady in the Iron Mask, starring Louis Hayward
• Lambert the Sheepish Lion
• The Last Page, a.k.a. Man Bait, starring George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Diana Dors – (GB)
• The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi – (Japan)
• Lightning (Inazuma), directed by Mikio Naruse – (Japan)
• Limelight – directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, with Claire Bloom
• Lone Star – starring Clark Gable and Ava Gardner
• Lost in Alaska, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Lovely to Look At, starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Red Skelton
• Lure of the Wilderness, starring Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Walter Brennan
• The Lusty Men, starring Robert Mitchum
• Macao, starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell
• Mandy, starring Phyllis Calvert and Jack Hawkins – (GB)
• The Marrying Kind, starring Judy Holliday
• Meet Danny Wilson – starring Frank Sinatra, Shelley Winters, and Raymond Burr
• The Member of the Wedding – directed by Fred Zinnermann, starring Julie Harris
• The Merry Widow, starring Lana Turner
• Mexican Bus Ride (Subida al cielo), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)
• Million Dollar Mermaid, starring Esther Williams and Victor Mature
• The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima, starring Gilbert Roland
• Les Misérables, starring Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, Debra Paget
• Monkey Business – directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe
• Monsoon, starring Diana Douglas and Ursula Thiess
• Montana Belle, starring Jane Russell
• Moulin Rouge – directed by John Huston, starring José Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor – (GB)
• My Cousin Rachel – directed by Henry Koster, starring Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton
• My Pal Gus, starring Richard Widmark and George Winslow
• My Six Convicts, starring Gilbert Roland
• My Son John, starring Robert Walker and Van Heflin
• The Narrow Margin, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Charles McGraw
• Neighbours – (Canada)
• Never Look Back directed by Francis Searle, starring Rosamund John – (GB)
• No Room for the Groom, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie
• O. Henry’s Full House – anthology – directed by Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Henry Koster, & Jean Negulesco, starring Charles Laughton, David Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain
• One Big Affair, starring Evelyn Keyes
• One Minute to Zero, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Mitchum and Ann Blyth
• Othello (a.k.a. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice) – written, directed by and starring Orson Welles
• Outcast of the Islands, directed by Carol Reed, starring Ralph Richardson and Trevor Howard – (GB)
• The Overcoat (Il Cappotto) – (Italy)
• Pahit-Pahit Manis, starring Titien Sumarni and Chatir Harro (Indonesia)
• Pat and Mike – directed by George Cukor, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
• Phone Call from a Stranger, starring Shelley Winters and Gary Merrill
• The Pickwick Papers, starring James Hayter and James Donald – (GB)
• Le Plaisir (a.k.a. House of Pleasure), directed by Max Ophüls, starring Claude Dauphin – (France)
• The Planter’s Wife – directed by Ken Annakin, starring Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins & Anthony Steel – (GB)
• Pony Soldier, starring Tyrone Power
• The Pride of St. Louis, starring Dan Dailey
• The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Jane Greer
• The Quiet Man** – directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Victor McLaglen
  Rancho Notorious, starring Marlene Dietrich
• Red Ball Express, starring Jeff Chandler
• Red Planet Mars, starring Peter Graves
• Retreat, Hell!, starring Frank Lovejoy
• Return of the Texan, starring Dale Robertson and Joanne Dru
• Road to Bali, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
• Rome 11:00 – (Italy)
• Ruby Gentry – directed by King Vidor, starring Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston and Karl Malden
• Sailor Beware, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Sangdil, starring Dilip Kumar and Madhubala – (India)
• Saturday Island, starring Linda Darnell and Tab Hunter – (GB)
• The Savage – directed by George Marshall, starring Charlton Heston and Susan Morrow
• Scandal Sheet, starring Broderick Crawford and Donna Reed
• Scaramouche, starring Stewart Granger and Janet Leigh
• The Scarlet Flower (Alenkiy tsvetochek) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Sea Tiger, starring Marguerite Chapman
• Secrets of Women (Kvinnors väntan) – directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Eva Dahlbeck – (Sweden)
• Siempre tuya (Forever Yours) – (Mexico)
• Singin’ in the Rain – directed by Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, starring Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Donald O’Connor
• The Sniper, directed by Edward Dmytryk
• The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka) – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro – directed by Henry King, starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner
• Something Money Can’t Buy, directed by Pat Jackson, starring Patricia Roc, Anthony
• Steel, Moira Lister & A.E. Matthews – (U.K.)
• Something to Live For – directed by George Stevens, starring Joan Fontaine and Teresa Wright
• Son of Paleface, directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers
• Song of the Sea (O canto do mar), directed by Alberto Cavalcanti – (Brazil)
• The Sound Barrier – directed by David Lean, starring Ralph Richardson – (GB)
• Springfield Rifle – starring Gary Cooper and Phyllis Thaxter
• The Star, starring Bette Davis and Sterling Hayden
• Steel Town, starring Ann Sheridan and John Lund
• The Steel Trap, starring Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright
• The Stooge, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Stop, You’re Killing Me, starring Broderick Crawford and Claire Trevor
• The Story of Will Rogers – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Will Rogers, Jr., Jane Wyman, Slim Pickens
• Sudden Fear, starring Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
• The Hour of 13, starring Peter Lawford
• The Thief, starring Ray Milland
• This is Cinerama, directed by Merian C. Cooper
• Thunderbirds, starring John Derek
• Tico-Tico no Fubá, directed by Adolfo Celi – (Brazil)
• Toto in Colour (Totò a colori), starring Totò – (Italy)
• Toxi, directed by Robert A. Stemmle (West Germany)
• Trent’s Last Case – starring Orson Welles and Michael Wilding – (GB)
• The Turning Point – starring William Holden, Alexis Smith, Edmond O’Brien
• Two Cents Worth of Hope (Due soldi di speranza) – (Italy)
• Umberto D. – directed by Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
• Untamed Frontier, starring Joseph Cotten and Shelley Winters
• La villa Santo-Sospir, short film directed by Jean Cocteau – (France)
• Viva Zapata! – directed by Elia Kazan, starring Marlon Brando and Jean Peters
• We’re Not Married! – starring Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Eve Arden, Paul Douglas, Eddie Bracken, Mitzi Gaynor
• The White Reindeer (Valkoinen peura) – (Finland)
• The White Sheik (Lo sceicco bianco) – directed by Federico Fellini – (Italy)
• Who Goes There!, starring Nigel Patrick and Valerie Hobson – (GB)
• Wide Boy, starring Sydney Tafler and Susan Shaw – (GB)
• The Wild North, starring Stewart Granger and Cyd Charisse
• Wings of Danger, directed by Terence Fisher, starring Zachary Scott – (GB)
• The Witch (Noita palaa elämään) – (Finland)
• With a Song in My Heart, starring Susan Hayward
• A Woman Without Love (Una mujer sin amor), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)
• The World in His Arms – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Ann Blyth
• You for Me, starring Peter Lawford, Jane Greer, Gig Young
• Young Man with Ideas, starring Glenn Ford and Ruth Roman