1953

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I Love Lucy: The Movie
8.2

I Love Lucy: The Movie

The film plays out, with three first-season episodes edited together into a single story: “The Benefit”, “Breaking the ...
Love Letter
7.2

Love Letter

Dec. 13, 1953

Love Letter

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Prowlers of the Everglades
7.2

Prowlers of the Everglades

Part of the “True-Life Adventure Series”; Disney filmmakers take their cameras to Florida, not to document the swamps that would ...
Northern Patrol
6

Northern Patrol

Jul. 12, 1953

Northern Patrol

Northern Patrol was the last entry in Monogram/Allied Artists’ off-and-on “Northwest Mountie” series. Taking time off from his ...
The Drayton Case
6.7

The Drayton Case

Feb. 01, 1953

The Drayton Case

During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.
The Good Beginning
6.1

The Good Beginning

Oct. 05, 1953

The Good Beginning

After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that ...
Deadly Nightshade
6.3

Deadly Nightshade

Mar. 01, 1953

Deadly Nightshade

Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
An Inlet of Muddy Water
7.2

An Inlet of Muddy Water

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds ...
Peek-a-Boo
4.3

Peek-a-Boo

Jan. 01, 1953

Peek-a-Boo

A filmed record of a burlesque show featuring strippers and comedians.
Johnny on the Run
6.7

Johnny on the Run

Jun. 01, 1953

Johnny on the Run

A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after ...
Rhine Virgin
6.3

Rhine Virgin

Nov. 13, 1953

Rhine Virgin

Reported missing in 1940, Jacques Ledru comes back to Strasbourg as Martin Schmidt. He tracks down his wife Genevieve, but she’s remarried ...
Girl on the Run
5.1

Girl on the Run

Dec. 15, 1953

Girl on the Run

A hootchy-kootchy whodunit set at a small seedy carnival where a reporter tries to discover who killed his boss while his girlfriend inexplicably ...
The Intruder
6.7

The Intruder

Oct. 18, 1953

The Intruder

When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank ...
The Wild One
6.7

The Wild One

Dec. 30, 1953

The Wild One

The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler ...
Miss Robin Crusoe
4.5

Miss Robin Crusoe

Nov. 01, 1953

Miss Robin Crusoe

This 1954 feminist version of “Robinson Crusoe” stars Amanda Blake as a woman shipwrecked on a jungle island. Also with George Nader ...
Man in the Attic
6.1

Man in the Attic

Dec. 23, 1953

Man in the Attic

London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, ...
The Heart of the Matter
6.6

The Heart of the Matter

Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.
Flight Nurse
5.3

Flight Nurse

Nov. 15, 1953

Flight Nurse

In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
Crime Wave
7.3

Crime Wave

Oct. 22, 1953

Crime Wave

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates ...
Anatahan
7

Anatahan

Jun. 28, 1953

Anatahan

From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.
The Yellow Balloon
6.9

The Yellow Balloon

Feb. 10, 1953

The Yellow Balloon

A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend’s death.
Woman They Almost Lynched
6.5

Woman They Almost Lynched

Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and ...
Wings of the Hawk
6.1

Wings of the Hawk

Aug. 26, 1953

Wings of the Hawk

Gringo miner Gallager is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator Ruiz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the ...
Will Any Gentleman…?
5.8

Will Any Gentleman…?

A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk’s life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes ...
White Witch Doctor
6.1

White Witch Doctor

Jul. 01, 1953

White Witch Doctor

Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler ...
The War of the Worlds
7

The War of the Worlds

Aug. 13, 1953

The War of the Worlds

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices ...
War Paint
5.7

War Paint

Aug. 28, 1953

War Paint

An Indian and his beautiful sister attempt to destroy a cavalry patrol trying to deliver a peace treaty to their chief.
War Arrow
5.9

War Arrow

Dec. 26, 1953

War Arrow

A thrilling Cavalry-versus-Indians adventure starring Jeff Chandler as an Army official recruiting Seminole allies, against his superior’s ...
I Vitelloni
7.8

I Vitelloni

Sep. 17, 1953

I Vitelloni

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group’s leader, is a womanizer; ...