Movies from 1952

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)

70 mins     Adventure , Comedy, Musical      

So my first Abbott and Costello movie and by the sounds of it I couldn't have picked a worse movie to start with as the general opinion about "Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd" is one of negativity. I can sort of appreci...

Against All Flags (1952)

83 mins     Action , Adventure , Drama      

If Maureen O'Hara wearing thigh high leather boots was enough to make a movie great then "Against All Flags" would be instantly a great movie. Unfortunately it doesn't and sadly for me this 1952 pirate adventure movie comes a...

Angel Face (1952)

91 mins     Crime, Drama      

I don't know what it is but I just don't get what is so great about film-noir, for some reason these movies which seem to be loved by many and rated highly rarely seem to float my boat. Don't get me wrong as each to their own...

Angels One Five (1952)

98 mins     Drama, War      

"Angels One Five" is a movie with a problem but putting your finger on that problem is not that easy. Here we have another WWII movie about the Air Force and with the story commencing in June 1940 is set around the period of ...

April in Paris (1952)

94 mins     Comedy, Musical, Romance      

The collaboration of Doris Day and director David Butler gave us the great movie/musical "Calamity Jane", shame I can't say they same about "April in Paris" which was released a year earlier. It's sadly almost a throw away mo...

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

118 mins     Drama      

In 1950 Billy Wilder gave us "Sunset Boulevard" a now iconic movie which gave audiences a look behind the scenes at the movie industry, warts and all. Two years later and we got Vincente Minnelli going down the same road with...

Bend of the River (1952)

91 mins     Western      

Bend of the River - James Stewart stars as McLyntock an outlaw looking to start afresh as a farmer but his plagued by his past as he helps lead a bunch of settlers...

Big Jim McLain (1952)

90 mins     Action , Crime, Drama      

On one side of "Big Jim McLain" we have a take on the old wartime spy movie where agents try to uncover who the bad guys are whilst in another country. The take is that we have two agents in Hawaii trying to discover those Un...

The Big Sky (1952)

140 mins     Adventure , Western      

"The Big Sky" has a lot of big names attached to it, it is directed by Howard Hawks, it stars Kirk Douglas, Arthur Hunnicutt and Hank Worden and even the story is a big story a big adventure. But here is the thing Howard Hawk...

The Big Trees (1952)

89 mins     Action , Drama      

Whilst generally I feel older movies are superior to modern movies when it comes to focus on story telling, there were still movies which had the feeling that they were made as almost stop gaps. Movies which had nothing major...

Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)

99 mins     Adventure      

If you were to write a list of everything which you associate with pirates I bet everything you write will appear in "Blackbeard, the Pirate" a movie which is so cliche and over the top that it is entertaining but really for ...

Brave Warrior (1952)

73 mins     Western      

Admittedly I am no history buff but even someone like me can see that "Brave Warrior" whilst set just prior to the war of 1812 between the United States and the British Empire it is not a factual western. Whilst we have chara...

Bugles in the Afternoon (1952)

85 mins     Western      

Whilst "Bugles in the Afternoon" is based upon a novel by Ernest Haycox what it ends up is a routine western, a Cavalry movie which uses the lead up to Custer's last stand as a setting. But whilst we are taken into the world ...

The Card (1952)

85 mins     Comedy      

Maybe it's me but you watch "The Card" and you ask yourself why can't they make movies like that anymore. I don't mean black & white movies but comedies where the amusement comes from the characters and the way the story deve...

Carson City (1952)

87 mins     Western      

Randolph Scott in a cowboy hat, yes we have another 50s western featuring the matinee idol. And to be blunt "Carson City" is like many of Scott's 50s westerns, he's the good guy, when he gets involved in a brawl he slugs it o...

The Cimarron Kid (1952)

84 mins     Western      

The Cimarron Kid (1952) Audie Murphy stars as the Cimarron Kid who finds himself riding with the Dalton gang despite trying to go straight...

Denver and Rio Grande (1952)

89 mins     Adventure , Western      

Denver and Rio Grande (1952) Edmond O'Brien is the railroad foreman wrngly accused of murder as two competing companies fight over the same rail line...

Desert Passage (1952)

92 mins     Western      

As westerns go "Desert Passage" is not that special, it has a reasonable storyline, it movies quite quickly and at just over 60 minutes it doesn't last that long. But for western fans it is watchable with simple but nice perf...

The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)

77 mins     Western      

Reading the synopsis for "The Duel at Silver Creek" it would be hard not feel like you've seen it before. We have a local businessman and gang taking over land by means which are illegal and so we have the good guys trying to...

Eight Iron Men (1952)

80 mins     Drama, War      

Eight Iron Men (1952) a group of GI's must deal with the choice of moving out or trying to rescue on of their men pinned down in the street....