Movies 1952 Page 39

A fictionalized biography of Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (1880–1935), who penned the song "Tico-Tico no Fubá" that became an...

A Korean war vet and his bride face subtle and sometimes extreme racism when they return to his home in rural California.

Divided in several episodes, this film presents different stories that share the fantasy theme.

Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.

Presentation of the economic upswing in the GDR, emphasizing the discovery of the process for the production of high-temperature lignite coke and the...

As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by...

The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.

Two Marine Corps combat photographers compete for the love of a Red Cross nurse during the Korean War. During a secret mission behind the North...

The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.

My Wife’s Lodger finds hapless soldier Willie Higginbottom (Dominic Roche) hoping for a hero’s welcome when he returns home after the war. But,...

Meet the cheeky, but kind-hearted, Little Frick and his fiddle as he works for three years for three shillings and compassionately gives them away to...

Christer is a teenager who prefers to spend his time on motorcycles instead of his studies which doesn't impress his father. There is also a youth...

Shehata Effendi is a clerk for a wealthy woman who is in dispute with her husband. Her husband divorced her a third time, so they resort to Shehata...

A lazy and fat cat, named Dodsworth, is ordered by his mistress to catch mice that have invaded her home and are terrorizing her. Dodsworth doesn't...

A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young woman. As their relationship deepens, he becomes...

Goofy is "Johnny Eyeball, Private Eye" who gets mixed up in a surreal whodunnit involving a classy dame, a cop, weasels, and the mysterious missing...

A group of Texas Rangers chasing the Butch Cavendish gang is massacred in an ambush. One of the Rangers survives and becomes a vigilante, a masked...

George Geef takes his son camping. His son thinks he sees lions everywhere; George can't see them even when they are right next to him. Lucky for...

A young man out of parental care is messing around in nearby villages.

A short film made to mark the occasion of the 11th International Dental Congress, held in London in 1952.

Jack Benny narrates the Screen Snapshots that, utilizing archive footage, traces the career of Al Jolson, and rare off-stage shots of Jolson with...

Woody's home is beset by an invasion of voracious alien termites.

This very short stereoscopic film by Evelyn Lambart uses drawings to suggest movement across Canada’s ever-changing countryside.

An optimistic overview and explanation of the stock market with animated examples.

Following the birth of the helicopter, from the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci through the advent of helicopter technology in the early 1952.

A documentary that profiles nudism and its lifestyle around the world.

Light in the Window is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Jean Oser. It is an innovative profile of the painter Johannes Vermeer. The film won...

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Surreal interpretive dance of a tormented woman. A woman dances up to a...

“The first motion picture which has not a trace of any attempt to lend literary meaning to its material.” --Kinesis, Inc.

KTLA makes the first telecast of an atomic bomb detonation. Klaus Landsberg led the engineering feat on short notice that established microwave links...

A former police detective turned private investigator is approached by two elderly sisters, who say that someone is terrorising them, but it turns...

Vital true sex facts and scenes formerly restricted to medical books, this film was billed as an illustrated lecture on film.

Fifties advertisement from Fischinger.

A short film from Guy L. Coté

The stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to the same girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of them and then...

Experimental short by Jordan Belson.

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

Singalong with spot gags about an animal fair.

The story of the evolution of life on Earth in animated form.