Movies 1953 Page 46

Caroline de Bienre, the 16-year-old daughter of French nobility, meets the handsome rogue, Gaston de Sallanches, who is expected to ask for the hand...

Two brothers flee America and join the Canadian North West Mounted Police. One brother is good, the other bad, both men on a collision course just as...

A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

Rocky the gangster kidnaps Tweety Bird for a million dollar ransom and holes up in an abandoned city building...

Jacqueline and Jacques, newlyweds, are in frequent discussions. The cause is Jacqueline's flirtatious nature, which she has not been able to shake...

A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.

"In rain and shine" - Sid och Filibert are identical twins. Sid is a theater manager and composer and when his brother arrives to Stockholm for a...

At the Tangier airport, a group of people await the arrival of a mysterious plane from behind the Iron Curtain. The reception committee includes...

A short film about the life of the peasant Mitre, who, unable to complete his agricultural work on time because he has only one ox, asks for help...

A relatively wealthy family takes a child from a village to the city to serve in their house. The child patiently and dedicatedly uses his minimal...

Jim Harvey is hired to guard a small wagon train as it makes its way west. The train is attacked by Indians and Harvey, hoping to persuade Aguila,...

The biographical story of Puccini spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly...

In a 16th century kingdom in the Netherlands, the newly crowned King Stephan concludes a secret treaty with the Spanish. This puts him at odds with...

Rex Allen against diamond smugglers down Laredo way

Dinky Duck can't sing, but sells his soul to become a success.

Bob Hope stars as an inept member of the chorus boy in a turn of the century stage show. After being fired, he finds himself starring acting as a...

A young French, Vignerte, is hired in the court of Lautenberg, an imaginary land, as the young Prince's private teacher and as the Grand Duchess'...

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Johnny Green conducts the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien".

A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.

A devious fox comes to a small farm and uses flattery to trick the ducks, chickens and roosters into coming with him, supposedly to compete at the...

George Stoney investigates the living conditions, both good and bad, in the rural, segregated South.

Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.

This travelogue begins with the vast agricultural wealth of the country, whose farmers can produce four times the amount required to feed the...

Featuring Jean Beliveau, this short film focuses on hockey from the inside out. Known as Canada's national pastime, this film demonstrates why hockey...

Mother Mack, a Scottish terrier, has a litter of seven puppies. Her owners decide to keep the smallest puppy and give the others away. What's unusual...

Jack and Mary (and their dog, Rags) are walking down the street when a talking car stops them and begins lecturing them about traffic safety.

Lost film directed by Stan Brakhage. Possibly never existed. "I don’t think the film was ever finished or even edited. I think it was a title,...

Mickey Rooney, plugging his latest Columbia film, stops by Ralph Staub's editing room and film vault, and the two of them watch clips from Rooney's...

1953 Jim Davis short

General Electric sponsors this explanation of atomic energy, detailing some of its uses besides the bomb. Using animation and an off-screen narrator,...

A ruthless Texas oil baron and his non-believing daughter find God in this early witnessing film produced by and featuring Billy Graham.

When the cartoonist takes a coffee break and leaves the office for a spell, Katnip and "Hoiman" break the 4th-dimesion wall (and several dozen real...

This short film is an illustration of Niver's preservation process of paper print films. Renovare—from the Latin "to renew"—was an apt name for...

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.

A short documentary feature demonstrating the Blackburn Beverley aircraft on the ground and in flight.

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

It all takes place in Italy with various amusing gags concerning the country's shape (the obvious boot and foot one), the Leaning Tower of Pisa...