Movies 1953 Page 38

Reported missing in 1940, Jacques Ledru comes back to Strasbourg as Martin Schmidt. He tracks down his wife Genevieve, but she's remarried and has...

Dramatizes the effect of a home when furnishings are simplified, showing modern design at its best when the young couple tour the Johnson Wax...

A wildcat escapes from the zoo, disguises herself as a skunk to fool her pursuers, but that only attracts lovestruck Pepe le Pew.

Master Wong Fei-hung and disciple Ling Wan-kai take refuge at Golden Cock Township in Guangxi.They befriend the Mok sisters being forced to marry a...

Bugs Bunny, once again making that "wrong turn at Albuquerque", burrows into a bullring where a magnificent bull is making short work of a toreador....

A mad scientist, Dr. Aranya (Jackie Coogan), has created giant spiders in his Mexican lab in Zarpa Mesa to create a race of superwomen by injecting...

A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the...

A wealthy woman is suspected of murder and runs from the police, all the while her family and friends discuss the possible motive.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

The love of a mother for her two children.

American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII.

Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the...

A young man who lost his father as a child deceives a girl in a village and escapes to the city. The girl runs away and eventually becomes a...

A studio performance of the ballet Les Sylphides by Michel Fokine, first broadcast on 3 April 1953 and starring Alicia Markova, John Field, Violetta...

A look at Yoho National Park in Canada.

The film teaches us the basics of swimming jumps.

The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.

The town rebels against a landowner in La Rioja.

The crushing conformity of a penniless bank teller takes an unexpected turn when he deviates from his honest routine.

A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly...

Olive invites the boys over for dinner. They play briefly with Swee'pea, but when the inevitable fight starts, they ignore him and he wanders off to...

A BAFTA award nominated animation tracing the development of the motor car from the original horseless carriage common in the late 19th century to...

A gangster who operates a sleazy dance hall uses a sadistic bodyguard to keep his girls afraid and his customers in line.

A London solicitor and a French detective investigate the mysterious death of an elderly woman suspected of being poisoned.

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation...

A man is released from prison only to find a new kind of prison: society's judgment of an ex-con's continuing guilt. He now lives with his mother,...

The boys go off on a hunting weekend, followed closely by their wives.

Tells the story of young Willie Mosconi. From growing up with his father's pool hall downstairs to his first US Championship.

The story of a family house through four generations

The Swedish Sports Confederation's sports ground in Vålådalen. Modern aids such as a washing machine are demonstrated with a Surf package clearly...

A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters.

Katnip is trying to catch a really big fish, but is having no success.

The sacrifice of HMS Plym in the first British atomic bomb test.

Short by Serge Bourguignon

In this entry in Universal-International's "Foolish Fable" series (U-I production number 8327), Herman the Turtle's only ambition is to be able to...

Film version of a comic poem about a man's attempts to claim insurance after his house burns down.

Back in the Old West, Casper the Friendly Ghost meets a little boy who calls himself Billy the Kid.

As usual, Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is out to make friends but the only creature willing to respond is a fat turkey worrying his wattles off about...

A naïve, recently-orphaned young man discovers he's being used as a pawn in a crooked gambler's plan to rig a July 4 horserace. Western.

Promotional short for the Red Cross.