| 1321 |
High Society (1956) #1335
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Directed by Charles Walters. With Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm. With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him. |
| 1322 |
The Dam Busters (1955) #319
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Directed by Michael Anderson. With Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney. The story of how the British attacked German dams in WWII by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective. |
| 1323 |
Guys and Dolls (1955) #388
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Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine. In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game. |
| 1324 |
Lady and the Tramp (1955) #813
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Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske. With Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, Bill Thompson. The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt. 76 mins. Disney |
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Lady and the Tramp (1955) #1029
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Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske. With Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, Bill Thompson. The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt. |
| 1326 |
A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) #1095
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Directed by Carol Reed. With Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson. In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship. |
| 1327 |
The Glenn Miller Story (1954) #1076
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Directed by Anthony Mann. With James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake. Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944. |
| 1328 |
Hobson's Choice (1954) #1126
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Directed by David Lean. With Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson. Henry Hobson is a successful bootmaker, a widower and a tyrannical father of three daughters. The girls each want to leave their father by getting married, but Henry refuses because marriage traditions require him to pay out settlements. |
| 1329 |
Animal Farm (1954) #1272
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Directed by Joy Batchelor, John Halas. With Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham. A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves. |
| 1330 |
Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) #533
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Directed by Sidney Gilliat. With Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Martyn Green. The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim. |
| 1331 |
The Band Wagon (1953) #1327
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Directed by Vincente Minnelli. With Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray. A pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition. |
| 1332 |
Calamity Jane (1953) #1416
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Calamity Jane: Directed by David Butler. With Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey. The story of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok |
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) #1454
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan: Directed by Sidney Gilliat. With Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Martyn Green. The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim. Added 2nd December 2022 |
| 1334 |
Singin' in the Rain (1952) #1010
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Directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly. With Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen. A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. |
| 1335 |
Singin' in the Rain (1952) #1158
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Directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly. With Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen. A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. In 16:9 containing 4:3 showing. |
| 1336 |
An American in Paris (1951) #157
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Directed by Vincente Minnelli. With Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary. Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. |
| 1337 |
Ace in the Hole (1951) #274
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Directed by Billy Wilder. With Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall. A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. |
| 1338 |
Alice in Wonderland (1951) #427
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Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske. With Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway. Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way. Disney |
| 1339 |
Show Boat (1951) #966
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Directed by George Sidney. With Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown. The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairytale romance is threatened when his luck turns sour. |
| 1340 |
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) #1119
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Directed by Charles Crichton. With Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass. A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers. |
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