24th Annual Academy Awards

1952

7.5

The 24th Academy Awards honored the best in film in 1951, as recognized by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Best Picture was awarded to An American in Paris, which, like A Place in the Sun, received six Academy Awards. A Streetcar Named Desire won four Oscars, including three of the acting awards. The film's only unsuccessful acting nomination was that of Marlon Brando, whose performance as Stanley Kowalski was later considered one of the most influential of modern film acting. Humphrey Bogart was the last man born in the 19th century to win a leading role Oscar. An American in Paris became the second color film to win Best Picture, after 1939's Gone with the Wind.—Anonymous

The Savage

1952

English

6.1

♡ 7

71%

George Marshall Director

Ted de Corsia as Iron Breast

Charlton Heston as James 'Jim' Aherne Jr.

Michael Tolan as Long Mane

Frank Richards as Sgt. Norris

The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as an Indian in very way. Years later, the white men and the Sioux threaten to go to war and the Indian-raised white man is torn between his racial loyalties and his adopted tribe.

Ikiru

1952

Japanese

8.3

♡ 84

98%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Fuyuki Murakami as Newspaperman

Toranosuke Ogawa as Park Section Chief

Kamatari Fujiwara as Sub-Section Chief Ono

Yoshie Minami as The Maid

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.

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

1952

Japanese

7.6

♡ 14

93%

husband wife relationship

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Kôji Shitara as Koji Yamauchi

Eijirô Yanagi as Naosuke Yamauchi

Keiko Tsushima as Setsuko Yamauchi

Mie Kitahara as Waitress

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

Bugles in the Afternoon

1952

English

6.0

♡ 5

25%

Roy Rowland Director

Barton MacLane as Capt. Myles Moylan

Forrest Tucker as Donavan

Jack Williams as Heliograph Operator

Frank Mills as Trooper

Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman.

High Noon

1952

English

7.9

♡ 55

94%

Fred Zinnemann Director

Sheb Wooley as Ben Miller

Harry Harvey as Coy

Robert J. Wilke as Jim Pierce

Chuck Hayward as Townsman

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.

Wagons West

1952

English

6.2

♡ 5

Drama

wagon master

Western

Ford Beebe Director

Peggie Castle as Ann Wilkins

Henry Brandon as Clay Cook

Frank Ferguson as Cyrus Cook

Ken Cooper as Outrider

Travelers heading west in a wagon train, under repeated assault by Indians, discover someone in their group is supplying rifles to their attackers.

Red Ball Express

1952

English

6.3

♡ 2

42%

Budd Boetticher Director

Thomas Browne Henry as Col. Carter

Jack Kelly as Heyman

Judith Braun as Joyce McClellan

Gregg Palmer as Tank Lieutenant

August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton's Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To keep up the momentum, Allied HQ establishes an elite military truck route.

The Prisoner of Zenda

1952

English

6.9

♡ 6

62%

Adventure

based on novel or book

Richard Thorpe Director

Thomas Browne Henry as Detchard

Forbes Murray as Dignitary

Peter Brocco as Johann

James Mason as Rupert of Hentzau

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

Le Plaisir

1952

French

7.5

♡ 9

80%

Max Ophüls Director

Roland Lesaffre as Bit part

Simone Simon as Joséphine - le modèle

Paul Azaïs as Le patron du bal

Peter Ustinov as Narrator

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.

5 Fingers

1952

English

7.6

♡ 7

Joseph L. Mankiewicz Director

Patrick Whyte as Code Clerk

Martin Garralaga as Diello's Butler

Walter Hampden as Sir Frederic Taylor

Gene Roth as Turkish Policeman

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

Invasion, U.S.A.

1952

English

3.5

♡ 5

Alfred E. Green Director

Peggie Castle as Carla Sanford

Dan O'Herlihy as Mr. Ohman

Frank Mills as Plant Worker

Edward G. Robinson Jr. as Radio Dispatcher

A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union.

Monkey Business

1952

English

6.9

♡ 7

74%

Howard Hawks Director

Forbes Murray as Board Member

Mack Williams as Board Member

Olive Carey as Johnny's Mother

Charlotte Austin as Student

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

Fear and Desire

1952

English

5.3

♡ 9

70%

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

Stanley Kubrick Director

Stephen Coit as Fletcher / The Captain

Frank Silvera as Mac

Paul Mazursky as Sidney

Virginia Leith as The Girl

After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war quickly become apparent.

Bend of the River

1952

English

7.2

♡ 13

100%

Anthony Mann Director

Julie Adams as Laura Baile

Frances Bavier as Mrs. Prentiss

Jack Lambert as Red

Frank Ferguson as Tom Grundy

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

We Are All Murderers

1952

French

7.2

♡ 4

Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution system. Charles Spaak's screenplay makes no attempt to launder the four principal characters (Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin, Antoinine Balpetre, Julien Verdeir): never mind the motivations, these are all hardened murderers. Still, the film condemns the sadistic ritual through which these four men are brought to the guillotine. In France, the policy is to never tell the condemned man when the execution will occur--and then to show up without warning and drag the victim kicking and screaming to his doom, without any opportunity to make peace with himself or his Maker. By the end of this harrowing film, the audience feels as dehumanized as the four "protagonists." We Are All Murderers was roundly roasted by the French law enforcement establishment, but it won a special jury prize at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

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24th Annual Academy Awards

The Savage

Ikiru

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

Bugles in the Afternoon

High Noon

Wagons West

Red Ball Express

The Prisoner of Zenda

Le Plaisir

5 Fingers

Invasion, U.S.A.

Monkey Business

Fear and Desire

Bend of the River

We Are All Murderers