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The Fraeon Archive · The 1950s
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1952

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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Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

4.2

Ikiru

1952

High Noon

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.

3.8

High Noon

1952

Singin' in the Rain

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

4.1

Singin' in the Rain

1952

The Quiet Man

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

3.7

The Quiet Man

1952

The African Queen

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.

3.7

The African Queen

1952

The Crimson Pirate

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.

3.5

The Crimson Pirate

1952

Limelight

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

4.0

Limelight

1952

Scaramouche

In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

3.5

Scaramouche

1952

The Greatest Show on Earth

To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.

3.2

The Greatest Show on Earth

1952

Ivanhoe

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.

3.4

Ivanhoe

1952

The Bad and the Beautiful

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

3.6

The Bad and the Beautiful

1952

The White Reindeer

A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.

3.3

The White Reindeer

1952

Forbidden Games

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as they create a burial ground for Paulette's deceased pet dog. Eventually, however, Paulette's stay with Michel's family is threatened by the harsh realities of wartime.

3.9

Forbidden Games

1952

Bend of the River

Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...

3.5

Bend of the River

1952

Viva Zapata!

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.

3.4

Viva Zapata!

1952

Clash by Night

An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

3.3

Clash by Night

1952

Kansas City Confidential

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

3.5

Kansas City Confidential

1952

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

2.9

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

1952

What the critics kept

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Umberto D.

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

4.0

Umberto D.

1952

The Little World of Don Camillo

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

3.8

The Little World of Don Camillo

1952

Hidden gems of 1952loved by the few who found them

El bombero atómico

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.

4.2

El bombero atómico

1952

Bellissima

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.

3.9

Bellissima

1952

The Life of Oharu

During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

3.8

The Life of Oharu

1952

Neighbours

In this Oscar-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower.

3.8

Neighbours

1952

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

3.8

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

1952

5 Fingers

During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

3.8

5 Fingers

1952

Water, Water Every Hare

Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole floods, causing him to float to the laboratory of an evil scientist who wants to use his brain for a robot.

3.8

Water, Water Every Hare

1952

Le Plaisir

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.

3.7

Le Plaisir

1952

Rabbit Seasoning

Elmer Fudd is hunting both Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny again.

3.7

Rabbit Seasoning

1952

Si yo fuera diputado

Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'

3.7

Si yo fuera diputado

1952

Feed the Kitty

A bulldog adopts an adorable kitten, but he can't let his owner know.

3.7

Feed the Kitty

1952

Casque d'Or

At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.

3.7

Casque d'Or

1952

Europa '51

A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.

3.7

Europa '51

1952

Totó in color

In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.

3.7

Totó in color

1952

Beep, Beep

The Coyote chases the Road Runner through a maze of mine shafts.

3.7

Beep, Beep

1952

On the small screen

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Tagesschau

German daily news program, the oldest still existing program on German television.

3.4

Tagesschau

1952

Adventures of Superman

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a syndicated TV adaptation of the beloved DC Comics superhero! You know the drill: When he isn't fighting for truth, justice and the American way, the man in tights dons a suit and glasses for his secret identity as Daily Planet newspaper reporter Clark Kent, who works alongside friends Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen for gruff boss Perry White.

3.4

Adventures of Superman

1952

On the page

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The Old Man and the Sea

American Sea stories · Male friendship

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

1952

En attendant Godot

French drama · Translations into English

En attendant Godot

Samuel Beckett

1952

Charlotte's Web

Farm life · Animals

Charlotte's Web

E. B. White

1952

They Do It with Mirrors

Fiction · Jane Marple (Fictitious character)

They Do It with Mirrors

Agatha Christie

1952

East of Eden

migrant labor · historical fiction

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

1952

Government by the people

Politics and government · Local government

Government by the people

James MacGregor Burns

1952

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Narnia · The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

C. S. Lewis

1952

Rashomon and other stories

Fiction · Social life and customs

Rashomon and other stories

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

1952

Le pont de la rivière kwaï

World War, 1939-1945 · Fiction

Le pont de la rivière kwaï

Pierre Boulle

1952

The King Must Die

Fiction · Lesbian authors

The King Must Die

Mary Renault

1952

Hickory Dickory Death

English Detective and mystery stories · Private investigators

Hickory Dickory Death

Agatha Christie

1952

The Power of Positive Thinking

Applied Psychology · Aspectos religiosos

The Power of Positive Thinking

Norman Vincent Peale

1952

Briefe an Milena

Austrian Authors · Authors

Briefe an Milena

Franz Kafka

1952

Childhood’s End

Human-alien encounters · Fiction

Childhood’s End

Arthur C. Clarke

1952

The natural

Baseball players · Fiction

The natural

Bernard Malamud

1952

The Pale Horse

English Detective and mystery stories · Fiction

The Pale Horse

Agatha Christie

1952

The Price of Salt

collectionID:Sleazy_pulp · Fiction

The Price of Salt

Patricia Highsmith

1952

Special quotations

Seed industry and trade · Prices

Special quotations

Bingham Seed Company

1952

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