Movies List 1951 Page

The 13th Letter, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Linda Darnell and Charles Boyer
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Ace in the Hole (a.k.a. The Big Carnival), directed by Billy Wilder, starring Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling
Across the Wide Missouri, starring Clark Gable
The African Queen, directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart (Oscar for best actor) and Katharine Hepburn - (GB/U.S.A.)
Air Cadet, starring Gail Russell and Stephen McNally
Alice in Wonderland, an animated film by Walt Disney
Along the Great Divide, starring Kirk Douglas
An American in Paris, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron (Oscar for best picture)
Angels in the Outfield, starring Paul Douglas and Janet Leigh
Anna, starring Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone and Vittorio Gassman - (Italy)
Another Man's Poison, directed by Irving Rapper, starring Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams and Anthony Steel - (GB)
Apache Drums, starring Stephen McNally and Coleen Gray
Appointment with Danger, starring Alan Ladd, with future Dragnet (series) co-stars Jack Webb and Harry Morgan
Appointment with Venus, starring Glynis Johns and David Niven - (U.K.)
As Young as You Feel, starring Monty Woolley
Atoll K, starring Laurel and Hardy in their final film
Awaara (Tramp), directed by and starring Raj Kapoor - (India)
The Axe of Wandsbek (Das Beil von Wandsbek) - (East Germany)
Baazi (Gamble), starring Dev Anand - (India)
Bedtime for Bonzo, starring Ronald Reagan (with a chimpanzee)
Bellissima, directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Anna Magnani - (Italy)
Blackmailed, starring Mai Zetterling and Dirk Bogarde - (GB)
The Blue Veil, starring Jane Wyman
Bright Victory, starring Arthur Kennedy
The Browning Version, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Michael Redgrave and Jean Kent - (GB)
Bullfighter and the Lady, starring Robert Stack and Joy Page
Callaway Went Thataway, starring Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel
Call Me Mister, starring Betty Grable
Captain Horatio Hornblower, starring Gregory Peck - (GB)
Cattle Drive, starring Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell and Chill Wills
Cause for Alarm!, starring Loretta Young and Barry Sullivan
China Corsair, starring Jon Hall
Circle of Danger, starring Ray Milland - (GB)
The Clouded Yellow, starring Trevor Howard and Jean Simmons - (GB)
Come Fill the Cup, starring James Cagney and Gig Young
Comin' Round The Mountain, starring Abbott and Costello
Cops and Robbers (Guardie e ladri), directed by Mario Monicelli - (Italy)
Cry Danger, starring Dick Powell and Rhonda Fleming
Cry, the Beloved Country, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Sidney Poitier - (GB)
Darling, How Could You!, starring Joan Fontaine
Daughter of Deceit (La hija del engaño), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico)
David and Bathsheba, starring Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward
The Day the Earth Stood Still, directed by Robert Wise, starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal
Death of a Salesman, starring Fredric March
Decision Before Dawn, starring Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill and Oskar Werner
Deedar, starring Ashok Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Nargis - (India)
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, starring James Mason
Detective Story, starring Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Lee Grant, Horace McMahon, and George Macready
Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d'un curé de campagne), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
Distant Drums, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Gary Cooper
Double Dynamite, starring Jane Russell, Frank Sinatra and Groucho Marx
Dream of a Cossack (Kavalier zolotoy zvezdy), starring Sergei Bondarchuk - (U.S.S.R.)
Daar Doer in Die Bosveld (Far Away in the Bushveld), starring Jamie Uys - (South Africa)
Early Summer (Bakushū), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
Encore, starring Nigel Patrick and Kay Walsh - (GB)
The Enforcer (Murder, Inc.), starring Humphrey Bogart and Zero Mostel
FBI Girl, starring Audrey Totter and Cesar Romero
The Family Secret, starring John Derek and Lee J. Cobb
Father's Little Dividend, starring Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor
The Fighting Seventh (a.k.a. Little Big Horn), starring Lloyd Bridges
Flying Leathernecks, starring John Wayne and Robert Ryan
Follow the Sun, starring Glenn Ford (as Ben Hogan)
The Forbidden Christ (Il Cristo proibito), starring Raf Vallone - (Italy)
Fort Worth, starring Randolph Scott
Four in a Jeep (Die Vier im Jeep), starring Ralph Meeker and Viveca Lindfors - (Switzerland)
Fourteen Hours, starring Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Jeffrey Hunter and Grace Kelly
The Frogmen, starring Richard Widmark and Dana Andrews
Furrows (Surcos) - (Spain)
Go for Broke!, starring Van Johnson
Golden Girl, starring Mitzi Gaynor, Dale Robertson, Dennis Day
The Golden Horde, starring Ann Blyth
Goodbye My Fancy, starring Joan Crawford and Robert Young
The Great Caruso, starring Mario Lanza
The Groom Wore Spurs, starring Ginger Rogers
Grounds for Marriage, starring Kathryn Grayson and Van Johnson
The Guy Who Came Back, starring Paul Douglas
Half Angel, starring Loretta Young
Happy Go Lovely, starring David Niven and Vera-Ellen - (GB)
He Ran All the Way, starring John Garfield and Shelley Winters
Here Comes the Groom, directed by Frank Capra, starring Bing Crosby
His Kind of Woman, starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price and Raymond Burr
The House in Montevideo (Das Haus in Montevideo) - (West Germany)
The House on Telegraph Hill, starring Richard Basehart
I Can Get It for You Wholesale, starring Susan Hayward
I'll Never Forget You
I Want You, directed by Mark Robson, starring Dana Andrews
The Idiot (Hakuchi), directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison, starring Steve Cochran
Jim Thorpe – All-American, starring Burt Lancaster
Journey Into Light, directed by Stuart Heisler, starring Sterling Hayden
Juliette, or Key of Dreams (Juliette ou La clef des songes), directed by Marcel Carné - (France)
Kind Lady, directed by John Sturges, starring Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Keenan Wynn, Angela Lansbury
Kon-Tiki, a documentary directed by and starring Thor Heyerdahl - (Norway)
The Last Outpost, starring Ronald Reagan
Laughter in Paradise, starring Alastair Sim - (GB)
The Lavender Hill Mob, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James and Alfie Bass, with an early appearance by Audrey Hepburn - (GB)
The Lemon Drop Kid, starring Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, William Frawley and Tor Johnson
Let's Go Crazy, starring Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers - (GB)
Leva på 'Hoppet', starring Ingrid Thulin - (Sweden)
Lightning Strikes Twice, starring Ruth Roman and Mercedes McCambridge
Little Egypt, starring Rhonda Fleming and Mark Stevens
The Long Dark Hall, starring Rex Harrison - (GB)
Lost Continent, starring Cesar Romero
Love Nest, starring June Haver and Marilyn Monroe
The Magic Box, starring Robert Donat, a biopic of William Friese-Greene - (GB)
The Magnificent Yankee, starring Louis Calhern
Malliswari, starring N.T. Rama Rao - (India)
The Man in the White Suit, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough and Ernest Thesiger - (GB)
The Mating Season, starring Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins and Thelma Ritter
The Medium, starring Marie Powers - (Italy)
Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano), directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
Miss Julie (Fröken Julie), directed by Alf Sjöberg - (Sweden)
The Model and the Marriage Broker, starring Jeanne Crain, Thelma Ritter, Scott Brady, Zero Mostel
Mr. Imperium, starring Lana Turner and Ezio Pinza
My Favorite Spy, starring Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr
New Mexico, starring Lew Ayres and Marilyn Maxwell
The Night Before Christmas (Noch pered Rozhdestvom) - (U.S.S.R.)
No Highway in the Sky (No Highway), starring James Stewart, Glynis Johns and Marlene Dietrich - (GB)
Olivia, directed by Jacqueline Audry - (France)
On Dangerous Ground, starring Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan
On Moonlight Bay, starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae
On the Riviera, starring Danny Kaye
One Summer of Happiness (Hon dansade en sommar) - (Sweden)
Only the Valiant, starring Gregory Peck
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine, starring Virginia Mayo
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, starring Ava Gardner and James Mason - (GB)
Paris Vice Squad (Identité judiciaire) - (France)
Payment on Demand, starring Bette Davis and Barry Sullivan
Penny Points to Paradise, starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan - (GB)
The People Against O'Hara, starring Spencer Tracy
People Will Talk, starring Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn and Finlay Currie
A Place in the Sun, directed by George Stevens, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters and Raymond Burr
Pool of London, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice and Earl Cameron - (GB)
The Prowler, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Van Heflin and Evelyn Keyes
Quo Vadis, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov and Leo Genn
The Racket, starring Robert Mitchum
The Raging Tide, starring Richard Conte and Shelley Winters
Rawhide, starring Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward
The Red Badge of Courage, directed by John Huston, starring Audie Murphy
Red Mountain, starring Alan Ladd and Lizabeth Scott
Repast (Meshi), directed by Mikio Naruse, written by the novelist Yasunari Kawabata - (Japan)
El revoltoso (The Rebellious) - (Mexico)
Rhubarb, starring Ray Milland, Jan Sterling, William Frawley and Leonard Nimoy
Rich, Young and Pretty, starring Jane Powell
The River (Le Fleuve), directed by Jean Renoir - (France/India/U.S.A.)
Royal Wedding, starring Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford and Jane Powell
...Sans laisser d'adresse (No Forwarding Address), starring Bernard Blier and Danièle Delorme - (France)
Santa Fe, starring Randolph Scott
Saturday's Hero, starring John Derek and Donna Reed
Scrooge (A Christmas Carol), starring Alastair Sim - (GB)
The Secret of Convict Lake, starring Glenn Ford and Gene Tierney
Selamat Berdjuang, Masku!, starring Raden Sukarno and Marlia Hardi - (Indonesia)
Show Boat, a remake of the hit musical, starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, and Ava Gardner, with songs by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern
Silver City, starring Edmond O'Brien and Yvonne De Carlo
The Sinner, directed by Willi Forst, starring Hildegard Knef and Gustav Fröhlich (West Germany)
Sirocco, starring Humphrey Bogart and Marta Toren
Slaughter Trail, starring Gig Young and Virginia Grey
Smuggler's Island, starring Jeff Chandler and Evelyn Keyes
Spring Season (Bahar), first Hindi film of Vyjayanthimala and the producer A. V. Meiyappan - (India)
Starlift, starring Janice Rule and Ruth Roman
The Steel Helmet, directed by Samuel Fuller
Storm Warning, starring Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan and Doris Day
The Strange Door, starring Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff
Strangers on a Train, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Farley Granger and Robert Walker
A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Vivien Leigh (Oscar for best actress), Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden
Strictly Dishonorable, starring Ezio Pinza and Janet Leigh
The Strip, starring Mickey Rooney and Sally Forrest
Sugarfoot, starring Randolph Scott
Summer Interlude (Sommarlek), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
Superman and the Mole Men, starring George Reeves
Susana (a.k.a. The Devil and the Flesh), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico)
Take Care of My Little Girl, directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Jeanne Crain and Mitzi Gaynor
A Tale of Five Cities (Passaporto per l'oriente) - (Italy/GB)
The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) - (Japan)
The Tales of Hoffmann, a cinematic opera directed by Powell and Pressburger and starring Moira Shearer - (GB)
The Tall Target, starring Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson and Ruby Dee
That Happy Couple (Esa pareja feliz), directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and Luis García Berlanga - (Spain)
That's My Boy, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
The Thing from Another World, produced by Howard Hawks, starring Kenneth Tobey and James Arness as the title creature
Three Guys Named Mike, starring Jane Wyman
Thunder on the Hill, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Claudette Colbert and Ann Blyth
Tom Brown's Schooldays, starring John Howard Davies and Robert Newton - (GB)
Tomahawk, starring Van Heflin and Yvonne De Carlo
Two of a Kind, starring Edmond O'Brien and Lizabeth Scott
Two Tickets to Broadway, starring Janet Leigh, Tony Martin, Gloria DeHaven
Vengeance Valley, starring Burt Lancaster and Joanne Dru
Victimas del Pecado (Victims of Sin) - (Mexico)
Warpath, starring Edmond O'Brien, Forrest Tucker, Polly Bergen
Warsaw Premiere, directed by Jan Rybkowski (Poland)
The Well, starring Harry Morgan
Westward the Women, starring Robert Taylor
When Worlds Collide, starring Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Larry Keating, John Hoyt and Hayden Rorke
Where No Vultures Fly, directed by Harry Watt, starring Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Harold Warrender and Meredith Edwards - (U.K.)
Young Wives' Tale, starring Joan Greenwood - (GB)
You're in the Navy Now, starring Gary Cooper

Your Day Will Come (Lak Yawm Ya Zalem) - (Egypt)

Serials

Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere, starring Judd Holdren
Don Daredevil Rides Again, starring Ken Curtis and Aline Towne
Government Agents vs Phantom Legion, starring Walter Reed
Mysterious Island, starring Richard Crane
Roar of the Iron Horse, starring Buster Crabbe

Short film series

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Gross rental
1.	Quo Vadis	MGM	$11,902,000
2.	Alice in Wonderland*	Disney	$7,196,000
3.	Show Boat	MGM	$5,533,000
4.	A Streetcar Named Desire	Warner Brothers	$4,800,000
5.	David and Bathsheba	Fox	$4,720,000
6.	An American in Paris	MGM	$4,531,000
7.	The African Queen	United Artists	$4,300,000
8.	A Place in the Sun	Paramount	$4,213,000
9.	Strangers on a Train	Warner Brothers	$3,800,000
10.	Pandora and the Flying Dutchman	MGM	$3,500,000

Back

The 13th Letter, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Linda Darnell and Charles Boyer

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

Ace in the Hole (a.k.a. The Big Carnival), directed by Billy Wilder, starring Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling

Across the Wide Missouri, starring Clark Gable

The African Queen, directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart (Oscar for best actor) and Katharine Hepburn - (GB/U.S.A.)

Air Cadet, starring Gail Russell and Stephen McNally

Alice in Wonderland, an animated film by Walt Disney

Along the Great Divide, starring Kirk Douglas

An American in Paris, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron (Oscar for best picture)

Angels in the Outfield, starring Paul Douglas and Janet Leigh

Anna, starring Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone and Vittorio Gassman - (Italy)

Another Man's Poison, directed by Irving Rapper, starring Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams and Anthony Steel - (GB)

Apache Drums, starring Stephen McNally and Coleen Gray

Appointment with Danger, starring Alan Ladd, with future Dragnet (series) co-stars Jack Webb and Harry Morgan

Appointment with Venus, starring Glynis Johns and David Niven - (U.K.)

As Young as You Feel, starring Monty Woolley

Atoll K, starring Laurel and Hardy in their final film

Awaara (Tramp), directed by and starring Raj Kapoor - (India)

The Axe of Wandsbek (Das Beil von Wandsbek) - (East Germany)

Baazi (Gamble), starring Dev Anand - (India)

Bedtime for Bonzo, starring Ronald Reagan (with a chimpanzee)

Bellissima, directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Anna Magnani - (Italy)

Blackmailed, starring Mai Zetterling and Dirk Bogarde - (GB)

The Blue Veil, starring Jane Wyman

Bright Victory, starring Arthur Kennedy

The Browning Version, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Michael Redgrave and Jean Kent - (GB)

Bullfighter and the Lady, starring Robert Stack and Joy Page

Callaway Went Thataway, starring Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel

Call Me Mister, starring Betty Grable

Captain Horatio Hornblower, starring Gregory Peck - (GB)

Cattle Drive, starring Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell and Chill Wills

Cause for Alarm!, starring Loretta Young and Barry Sullivan

China Corsair, starring Jon Hall

Circle of Danger, starring Ray Milland - (GB)

The Clouded Yellow, starring Trevor Howard and Jean Simmons - (GB)

Come Fill the Cup, starring James Cagney and Gig Young

Comin' Round The Mountain, starring Abbott and Costello

Cops and Robbers (Guardie e ladri), directed by Mario Monicelli - (Italy)

Cry Danger, starring Dick Powell and Rhonda Fleming

Cry, the Beloved Country, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Sidney Poitier - (GB)

Darling, How Could You!, starring Joan Fontaine

Daughter of Deceit (La hija del engaño), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico)

David and Bathsheba, starring Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward

The Day the Earth Stood Still, directed by Robert Wise, starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal

Death of a Salesman, starring Fredric March

Decision Before Dawn, starring Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill and Oskar Werner

Deedar, starring Ashok Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Nargis - (India)

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, starring James Mason

Detective Story, starring Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Lee Grant, Horace McMahon, and George Macready

Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d'un curé de campagne), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)

Distant Drums, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Gary Cooper

Double Dynamite, starring Jane Russell, Frank Sinatra and Groucho Marx

Dream of a Cossack (Kavalier zolotoy zvezdy), starring Sergei Bondarchuk - (U.S.S.R.)

Daar Doer in Die Bosveld (Far Away in the Bushveld), starring Jamie Uys - (South Africa)

Early Summer (Bakushū), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)

Encore, starring Nigel Patrick and Kay Walsh - (GB)

The Enforcer (Murder, Inc.), starring Humphrey Bogart and Zero Mostel

FBI Girl, starring Audrey Totter and Cesar Romero

The Family Secret, starring John Derek and Lee J. Cobb

Father's Little Dividend, starring Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor

The Fighting Seventh (a.k.a. Little Big Horn), starring Lloyd Bridges

Flying Leathernecks, starring John Wayne and Robert Ryan

Follow the Sun, starring Glenn Ford (as Ben Hogan)

The Forbidden Christ (Il Cristo proibito), starring Raf Vallone - (Italy)

Fort Worth, starring Randolph Scott

Four in a Jeep (Die Vier im Jeep), starring Ralph Meeker and Viveca Lindfors - (Switzerland)

Fourteen Hours, starring Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Jeffrey Hunter and Grace Kelly

The Frogmen, starring Richard Widmark and Dana Andrews

Furrows (Surcos) - (Spain)

Go for Broke!, starring Van Johnson

Golden Girl, starring Mitzi Gaynor, Dale Robertson, Dennis Day

The Golden Horde, starring Ann Blyth

Goodbye My Fancy, starring Joan Crawford and Robert Young

The Great Caruso, starring Mario Lanza

The Groom Wore Spurs, starring Ginger Rogers

Grounds for Marriage, starring Kathryn Grayson and Van Johnson

The Guy Who Came Back, starring Paul Douglas

Half Angel, starring Loretta Young

Happy Go Lovely, starring David Niven and Vera-Ellen - (GB)