1951 movies

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: James Mason | Ava Gardner | Nigel Patrick | Sheila Sim | Harold Warrender | Mario Cabré | Marius Goring | John Laurie | Pamela Mason | Patricia Raine | Margarita D'Alvarez | La Pillina | Abraham Sofaer | Francisco Igual | Guillermo Beltrán
Directors: Albert Lewin
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In 1930, singer Pandora Reynolds, gorgeous, enigmatic, and fascinated by danger and destruction, has the men of a small Spanish town in despair. Just when race driver Stephen Cameron thinks he’s won her, a mysterious yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the legendary Flying Dutchman. Stephen has an apparently more dangerous rival in the form of an arrogant bullfighter; but Pandora’s friendship with the Dutchman may lead them both to a rendezvous with Fate…

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bud Abbott | Lou Costello | Nancy Guild | Arthur Franz | Adele Jergens | Sheldon Leonard | William Frawley | Gavin Muir | Sam Balter | John Daheim | Paul Maxey | Walter F. Appler | Howard Banks | Bobby Barber | Richard Bartell
Directors: Charles Lamont
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Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy’s invisible help.

Scrooge (1951)

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: UK
Actors: Alastair Sim | Kathleen Harrison | Mervyn Johns | Hermione Baddeley | Michael Hordern | George Cole | John Charlesworth | Francis De Wolff | Rona Anderson | Carol Marsh | Brian Worth | Miles Malleson | Ernest Thesiger | Glyn Dearman | Michael Dolan
Directors: Brian Desmond Hurst
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Stingy old Ebenezer Scrooge is known as the meanest man in London. He overworks and underpays his humble clerk, Bob Cratchit, whose little son, Tiny Tim, is crippled and may soon die. He also has nothing to do with his nephew, Fred, because his birth cost the life of his beloved sister. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge has a haunting nightmare. He is visited by three ghosts and is given one last chance to change his ways and save himself from the grim fate that befell his business partner, Jacob Marley.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Rennie | Patricia Neal | Hugh Marlowe | Sam Jaffe | Billy Gray | Frances Bavier | Lock Martin | Elmer Davis | H.V. Kaltenborn | Drew Pearson | Gabriel Heatter | Holly Bane | Marshall Bradford | John Brown | John Burton
Directors: Robert Wise
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A flying saucer orbits the 1950s Earth. It lands in Washington, DC, on the Mall. The lone occupant steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, a large and very powerful robot appears to save him and is able to melt tanks with the slightest bit of his power. The wounded alien orders Gort to stop his rampage and is taken to a hospital from which he escapes in order to learn more about this planet, even moving in as a boarder with an Earth family. When they begin to suspect him, he reveals himself, along with the news that Gort is a member of a race of super-robot enforcers invented to keep the peace of the galaxy that will destroy the Earth if provoked.

The African Queen (1951)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Humphrey Bogart | Katharine Hepburn | Robert Morley | Peter Bull | Theodore Bikel | Walter Gotell | Peter Swanwick | Richard Marner | Errol John | Gerald Onn | John von Kotze
Directors: John Huston
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At the start of World War 1, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. Samuel Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take Sayers’ sister, Rose, back to civilization. taking on the Germans at the same time.