Movies 1954 Page 45

a group of British pioneers seek a new life in New Zealand.

Travelers Hansel and Zikmund sail from Africa to South America. On their journey to film, they capture clouds of locusts on the plains of Argentina's...

A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California beach and the prisoner manages to escape, after a...

Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia's duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Soon after arrival, Renzo will get in a big trouble and he will be...

Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. Feeling unworthy of his fiancée Vivian Morrow,...

In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a...

Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and break into the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter...

A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.

A young divorcée becomes involved with her widowed boss.

Victor Le Garrec, a former boxer, runs a gym in Paris while dreaming of finding an aspiring champion who will reach the goals he was never able to...

Woody Woodpecker notices a personal ad in the newspaper for a gorgeous rich gal, with plenty of food, looking for a husband.

A Lost Persian Film.

After fifteen years of marriage and mutual infidelity, a couple on the brink of divorce unexpectedly confront their unresolved love during a journey...

Don Gregor, the son of famous plastic surgeon Dr. Boris Gregor, begins to hang around with young criminal Vic Brady and carry a gun. The pair attempt...

An engineer with a small, happy family goes on a trip. A malicious man who covets the engineer's wife, Forough, deceives her in her husband's...

A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a...

Siblings Benita and Gorio play twisted roles: she drives a jeepney, he does all the household chores; she gets into brawls with men, he prefers to be...

Educational short about the films of the Lumière-Brothers.

A record of Tibetan religious dances performed at Yung-ning Monastery in Yunnan. The footage depicts scenes including the assassination of Langdarma,...

In Salvador Dalí’s home movies, the 50-year-old Surrealist artist plays with a kitten, an animal skull, and a rake to entertain a friend filming...

Documentary commissioned by Columbia University on the social role of libraries and controversial books.

Comedy and romance meet in this madcap adventure. Cousins Gerrit and Frederik land up on the farm of an eccentric farmer whose only concern is that...

Susan and Jack visiting their aunt and uncle's farm while the narrator explains how they can learn to be good citizens while visting.

The city-slicker mouse, Herman, takes his bumpkin country cousins for a night on the town at a penny arcade. Katnip the cat, Herman's long-time...

In a single year, for stores, materials and fuel British Railways must spend one hundred and thirty million pounds. The purchasing, warehousing and...

An anti speeding scare film from the 1950's.

Dimwit, the dopey dog, is a harried office worker and chain-smoking, gulping coffee and bottles of aspirin tablets does nothing to settle his...

Campaign film asking the public not to misuse or throw away the glass bottles left by their milkman, but to rinse them and put them back out for...

This short film shows the virtues of having an airport in a small town community.

Gulf Oil calmly reminding us why their gasoline is better than anyone else’s gasoline. And it’s all because of their “balanced volatility”...

Glimpses into the lives of five fifth grade children show that each is a complex and unique pattern. Emphasizes that the teacher must discover how...

Casper the Friendly Ghost saves three kittens and they accept the unpopular little ghost as their friend.

This black and white and color 1954 Encyclopedia Britannica film outlines the production process of creating educational films in a celebration of...

The film looks into the meaning of various forms of conduct in children from six to nine years and suggests ways in which parents may guide them...

A BBC Television film recalling the part Alexandra Palace has played in British television between 1935 and 1954. It shows the erection of the first...

A Scots boy describes in a letter his home, his school, local industries and Burn's cottage and Prestwick Airport.

A woman reads Philip Lamantia's poem (from which the film gets its title), which evokes masculine angst as the hand acts out the scenario of the poem.