The Best Movies Of 1953

Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to V...

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, but they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any...

A tiny elephant emerges from a banana boat and wanders about town, causing an uproar among the populace. Sightings are attributed variously to mass hysteria, insanity and dipsomania.

White hunters are using wild animals in Africa to test their germ warfare weapons.

Dave Bannion is a tough cop.

After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occupied by the French...

Ollie loves to play the tuba but his playing upsets all the people in town. He goes to the country and disrupts the milking habits of the cows. He finally takes a boat and practices at sea in order no...

A big game trapping company is run by Victor Marswell. There is an immediate attraction between them. Then Mr. They are and Mr. and Mrs. They show up for the gorilla. Mrs. She takes a liking to Marswe...

It isn't easy to fight Jungle Jim because bad guys are trying to steal the mineral rights.

The script, which was written on a day-to-day basis as the film was being shot, concerns the adventures of a motley crew of swindlers and ne'er-do-wells trying to lay claim to land rich in uranium dep...

An ambulance driver is involved with a girl that might have a darker side.

Eddie Constantine was Lemmy Caution.

A supermodel is murdered. The story of a waitress turning into a glamor girl is revealed while investigating the case.

The Ouessant Island is where Marie settles down. She will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an italian engineer, but she will be able to win the hearts of the local populat...

Filmed record of a burlesque show, featuring Tempest Storm in a Technicolor segment.

The story of Mary Tudor is told. Henry VIII decided to marry her to the King of France. She tried to flee to America with her love but was captured when she was "un-hatted" on a ship. Henry will allow...

The rich father of the bride-to-be thinks that she is just after his money, as he disapproves of her being engaged to a wealthy man. When Lorelei goes on a cruise with her best friend, she is accompan...

The program was the first so-called "Television Spectacular". Ford presented the show without commercial interruption. It is believed to be the first time that Edward R. Murrow appeared on NBC in a pr...

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

The dramatic black and white classic film of Martin Luther's life made in the 1950's. This film was originally released in theaters worldwide and nominated for an Academy Award. A magnificent depictio...

At the beginning of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to escort a convoy with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable, but the men have to work h...

A private detective is looking for the people who killed his girlfriend.

A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.

A weary gunfighter tries to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

Putnam becomes a local object of ridicule when he discovers that an enormous meteorite came down near a small town in Arizona, but he becomes a local object of ridicule when he discovers that it is a ...

Rose and her husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in upstate New York. Polly and Ray are honeymooning in the area, and the couple befriends them. Polly starts to suspect that something isn't ri...

Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the jungle. Initially, the natives there are friendly, especially dancer Minyora...who proves to be aff...

In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along wit...

On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied perm...

Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.

Film directed by Luigi Zampa.

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Marty Pilletti is a 34 year-old butcher who lives with his mother. His brothers and sisters are all married and his dear mother - along with several other of her friends - is always asking him why he ...

The historical and biographic movie about the glorified Russian naval commander Ushakov. France begins aggressive wars. The Russian and allied troops freeing Italy are headed by A. V. Suvorov. The vic...

Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.

Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her she has the "evil eye" and brings disaster to all who...

Four Swedish volunteer soldiers are trapped in Russia. In front of them lies the front with enemy outposts and patrols, behind them the enemy minefields. Hope to return to their own lines decreases ea...

Southern Fried Rabbit is a Looney Tunes cartoon by Warner Bros. starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. Directed by Friz Freleng and produced in 1952, the animated short was first released on May 2, 195...

A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it.

Hondo Lane discovered a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he became their protection.