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The Fraeon Archive · The 1950s
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1951

Widescreen spectacle at the movies, quiet revolutions in Japan and Europe, and television arriving to change everything.

The films everyone saw

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Alice in Wonderland

On a golden afternoon, wildly curious young Alice tumbles into the burrow and enters the merry, madcap world of Wonderland full of whimsical escapades.

3.6

Alice in Wonderland

1951

A Streetcar Named Desire

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.

3.8

A Streetcar Named Desire

1951

Strangers on a Train

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

3.8

Strangers on a Train

1951

The Day the Earth Stood Still

An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.

3.7

The Day the Earth Stood Still

1951

Quo Vadis

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

3.6

Quo Vadis

1951

Poison

Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Paul decides to go to Paris to meet a famous lawyer in the acquittal of the murderers. He tells the lawyer that he killed his wife. The lawyer asks Paul to reconstruct the circumstances of the drama. Without knowing it, he explains, in spite of himself, the way for Paul to murder his wife by putting the odds on his side to avoid death penalty or even be released...

3.6

Poison

1951

Scrooge

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.

3.7

Scrooge

1951

An American in Paris

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

3.5

An American in Paris

1951

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.

3.5

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

1951

The Thing from Another World

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

3.4

The Thing from Another World

1951

Distant Drums

After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety

3.1

Distant Drums

1951

When Worlds Collide

When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.

3.2

When Worlds Collide

1951

Ace in the Hole

An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.

3.9

Ace in the Hole

1951

The River

Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.

3.6

The River

1951

Fourteen Hours

A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.

3.6

Fourteen Hours

1951

Othello

Manipulated by his jealous ensign Iago, the Moorish general Othello is driven to believe that his new wife Desdemona is unfaithful, setting in motion a chain of deception, jealousy, and violence that leads to tragedy.

3.7

Othello

1951

A Place in the Sun

A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.

3.6

A Place in the Sun

1951

Detective Story

Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.

3.5

Detective Story

1951

Hidden gems of 1951loved by the few who found them

Full Spead Ahead

A drifter lands a job as an officer in México City's elite motorcycle police unit and gets home with a mate of this unit. The mate is in love with a girl, but he and she are always making jealous to each other. The drifter and the mate get involved themselves in a fight to become the winner of conquering ladies and performing unit acrobatic tricks, interfering with their friendship and profession.

4.2

Full Spead Ahead

1951

El Siete Machos

Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.

4.1

El Siete Machos

1951

The Poulterer Hawk

Two bumpkins in the big city fight over the same girl, until they realize that she's playing them against each other.

4.0

The Poulterer Hawk

1951

Early Summer

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.

3.9

Early Summer

1951

The Browning Version

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.

3.8

The Browning Version

1951

Cops and Robbers

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.

3.8

Cops and Robbers

1951

Rabbit Fire

Daffy Duck and Bugs argue back and forth whether it is duck season or rabbit season. The object of their arguments is hunter Elmer Fudd.

3.8

Rabbit Fire

1951

Diary of a Country Priest

An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.

3.7

Diary of a Country Priest

1951

Summer Interlude

During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.

3.7

Summer Interlude

1951

Miracle in Milan

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.

3.6

Miracle in Milan

1951

Corn Chips

Donald is shoveling the snow off his walk; Chip 'n' Dale are shoveling their branch. Donald tricks them into shoveling his walk. Angered, they sneak into his house, where he's getting ready to make popcorn. They've never seen this before, but they love it. They stow away in the box, then make off with the bowl of popped corn.

3.6

Corn Chips

1951

He Ran All the Way

A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.

3.6

He Ran All the Way

1951

The Lavender Hill Mob

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

3.6

The Lavender Hill Mob

1951

Awaara

A petty thief is put on trial for the attempted murder of a lawyer. Through a series of flashbacks, the intertwining lives of the thief, the lawyer, and the thief's defense lawyer are illustrated.

3.6

Awaara

1951

On the small screen

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I Love Lucy

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.

4.0

I Love Lucy

1951

On the page

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Mémoires d'Hadrien

Love · Fiction

Mémoires d'Hadrien

Marguerite Yourcenar

1951

Prince Caspian

Fantasy · Narnia (fictional place)

Prince Caspian

C. S. Lewis

1951

The Daughter of Time

Alan Grant (Fictitious character) · Fiction

The Daughter of Time

Josephine Tey

1951

Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur

Art and society · History

Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur

Arnold Hauser

1951

Defence

Canada. Dept. of External Affairs.

1951

Foundation

Psychohistory · Open Library Staff Picks

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

1951

They Came to Baghdad

English Spy stories · Fiction

They Came to Baghdad

Agatha Christie

1951

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

Fiction · Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

Agatha Christie

1951

The Caine mutiny

World War, 1939-1945 · Fiction

The Caine mutiny

Herman Wouk

1951

The Illustrated Man

American Science fiction · Science fiction

The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury

1951

L'Homme révolté

Good and evil · Revolutions

L'Homme révolté

Albert Camus

1951

Canada · Commerce

Commerce

Canada. Dept. of External Affairs.

1951

Das Ende einer Affäre

Schriftsteller · Belletristische Darstellung

Das Ende einer Affäre

Graham Greene

1951

Child's Garden of Verses

Children's poetry · Scottish poetry

Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

1951

L'exil et le royaume

French language materials · Foreign languages

L'exil et le royaume

Albert Camus

1951

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Antisemitism · Imperialism

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

1951

Speak, Memory

American Authors · Biography

Speak, Memory

Vladimir Nabokov

1951

The Day of the Triffids

Blind · English Fantasy fiction

The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham

1951

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