The Best Movies Of 1951

Attempt to develop sympathy and understanding for the socially isolated by offering suggestions for overcoming this condition.

Popeye drops a TV off at the orphanage; the program that comes on is a boxing match he's supposed to be in, so he dashes off. The fight is against the champ, who is huge. Popeye gets pummelled in the ...

Hillary Brooke is the jungle goddess love interest in this classic 1950s B movie.

A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.

A short horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven.

After years of living in her selfish parents' (Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari) egotistical shadows, desperate teenager Jill Bradley (Joan Evans) makes a last-ditch play for attention by attempting suici...

Sidney Stratton is a nebbishy inventor who creates fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. He can make a lot of money selling clothes made of material, but may cause a crisis in the process. The ...

Space hero Captain Video battles the evil Vultura on the planet Atoma.

Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.

A young lawyer's primrose path to success gets him framed for murder.

After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has been able to build a solid case against an elusive mobster.

The new federal marshal saved Tim from being lynched by the clan and hopes to get him to trial. Ned wants revenge for Ed's death, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him. Will just...

William Freise-Greene was once a very different person. William Green changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good ...

A mysterious American is in Syria.

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

An informative short about the importance of finance.

Scientists and U.S. military personnel. Air Force officials fight off a blood-thirsty alien organisms at a remote outpost.

Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.

In the drama, a father abandons his baby daughter on the doorstep of the town because he believes she is not his own. The man has guilt about deserting her for many years.

Short about the titular choir, made after the announcement of the retirement of the choir's conductor, Sir Hugh Robertson

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

The singer Raik launches his wife, Ashwaq for the third time, and after a period reviewing himself and wants to restore the taste of his passion, but there must be an analyst to come back with his lif...

The story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. The cop is an embittered cop. Jim McLeod is the leader of a precinct of characters who are fighting the c...

When Tom Brown (John Howard Davies) arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully, Flashman (John Forrest). With the help of his friend East (John Charleswort...

There is a visit to Athens, Greece and the island of Rhodes.

Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate, they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. The idea of t...

George Geef gets sent home from work to tend to his cold.

A naval adventure, based on the novels by C.S. Forester, about the heroic, 19th-century British seafarer. The story sails with his ship, the Lydia, through battles with Spain and then France won with ...

Bud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies, witches and love potions.

Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch.

On the way to her new job, Marsha Mitchell takes the opportunity to visit her sister Lucy, whom she has not seen in a few years. There she not only meets her husband for the first time, but also the K...

In Prairie Roundup, Fred F. Sears' direction brings a welcome jolt of vitality to Columbia's aging "Durango Kid" western series. Once again, Charles Starrett stars as Steve Carson, a lawman who is for...

An Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords.

In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the fi...

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.

Junyer Bear has a number of surprises for Good Ol' Pa on Good Ol' Father's Day.

The story of a cavalry officer who volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in order to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves is told in the film Only the Valiant.

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.

Goofy's building a house, and struggling with the blueprints, the window glass, the paint, and finally the house-warming guests.

Jean Renoir's first color feature, shot entirely on location in India, is a visual tour de force. The film is based on a novel by Rumer Godden, and it depicts the growing pains of three young women wi...

A poor shepherd is convinced to marry a beautiful woman. This is a Maquiavellian plan schemed by the woman's fiancé and her father.

A San Francisco man (Hugh Beaumont) is paid to bid on a saxophone and escort a woman to a yacht party.

A innocent dentist is murdered and the only apparent motive seems to be to steal a set of dental x-rays. To the police it looks like an accident, but private eye Brad Runyan thinks there's more to it....

Small town girl moves to the big city. When she can't find a job, she starts hanging with a bad crowd.

It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men fro...