1952 Movies

In this Oscar-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. T...

Short film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

Filmed record of a burlesque performance.

Grubstake, also known as Apache Gold, is a 1952 American Western film directed by Larry Buchanan.

This public-school educational film warns of the dangers of cheating. John Taylor is struggling with his algebra course, and convinces his friend Mary...

Per buys lottery tickets for Trine. They fall in love and seemingly win a house.

A short government funded industrial documentary showing the hard work and craftsmanship of labourers in the leather industry that otherwise goes unno...

The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Troi...

Audrey dreams she's a detective (complete with Deerstalker hat) on a case of murdered Cock Robin. She chases the suspect; a cuckoo bird (a caricature...

Terrorized citizens send for a Texas lawman to rid their town of bandits.

Majid, who knows a lot about music, gets fed up with being jobless and becomes a music teacher for the A'yan al-Molk family. This is happening while t...

Drama from Hong Kong directed by Lee Tit.

A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.

Gil Lamb, window washer at the "Daily Record" has aspirations of becoming a reporter and marrying Carol Hughes, the city editor's secretary. When he h...

Woman prostitutes herself to the man who murdered her fiance, to get evidence of his guilt and bring him to trial.

Customs officer Tapio goes undercover to reveal a smuggling ring, which operates within an entrainment troupe. While doing his detective work, he also...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Newly graduated teacher Anna-Greta is courted by a senior student.