1953 Movies

Life’s Musical Minute, recently re-discovered, is a short promotional film of this kind, based on Gene Krupa’s drum solo from “Golden Wedding” by the...

A middle-aged man, an architect by trade, decides to make an end run around getting married. He marries a charming young woman, tenderly in love, who...

A hagiography of the legendary Tamil saint poetess of the Sangam period.

The history of the Studebaker family, their success at making wagons and the company's venture into automobiles.

The ugly duckling of the title is Hans Christian Andersen, the author who wrote fairy tales that still delight readers to this day. This Traveltalk se...

The story of a ghostly thief in Edo who calls himself the fireball guy.

After the workers’ revolt on June 17th, 1953 this film disappeared in the archives until 1997.

A poor but large-hearted young man gives shelter to three helpless, forlorn people in his home - an abandoned railway coach. However, tensions arise i...

Carlo Lizzani's short film for the anthology film Love in the City

Mexican feature film

This script was adapted from a Rediffusion Radio airwave novel, written by Lang Wun and read on-air by his wife Ngai Mun. Ngai Mun also acted in this...

In a foundry, in 1951, a modernization program was implemented in order to revive competitiveness.

Winter Paradise is a 1953 English language documentary directed by John Jay, starring Art Gilmore. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live A...

In Bourganeuf, an old maid, Charlotte Bourdier, confesses to Marie Chassagne that she has forged a sentimental intrigue by correspondence with the pre...

Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge is an Italian adventure film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she fo...

Hannes Kähls von Kählsberg has hired himself out as a head farmhand on the estate out of love for Jutta, the beautiful young lady of the Salzerhof. Si...