Films of 1954
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- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsDean MartinJerry LewisJoanne DruJerry and Pete are two friends with no money, looking for some job. They finally find one as workers in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams. He wants to become a clown.
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsKirk DouglasJames MasonPaul LukasA ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsRory CalhounJean SimmonsStephen McNallyAfter their small plane crashes in the wilderness, a sheriff's deputy and his prisoner take shelter at an isolated farm.
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsShirley BoothRobert RyanMarjie MillarA rooming-house landlady recalls her past in flashbacks.
- DirectorDon WeisStarsJohn DerekElaine StewartThomas GomezIn Ispahan, Persia, a barber mistakes an emerald ring as the prize to be delivered to a prince known far and wide, only to realize that a runaway Princess is the real treasure awaited, promising to escort her to her final destination.
- DirectorJerry HopperStarsRobert RyanJan SterlingBrian KeithThe owner of a salmon cannery in Alaska hires a man who had formerly been his partner, and comes to regret it.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsBurt LancasterJean PetersJohn McIntireRefusing to let himself be re-settled on a Florida reservation, Massai, an Apache warrior, escapes his captors and returns to his homeland to become a peaceful farmer.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsSterling HaydenColeen GrayKeith LarsenA cavalry deserter risks his life to warn and protect a wagon train from an impending Indian attack.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsJane PowellDebbie ReynoldsVirginia GibsonThe story about two sisters in love. Everything should be wonderful, but father doesn't approve of his daughters' physically underdeveloped fiancés.
- DirectorHugo HaasStarsCleo MooreHugo HaasJohn AgarA beautiful blonde leads a man down the road to ruin.
- DirectorStuart HeislerStarsTony CurtisFrank LovejoyMary MurphyIn 1943, in the wake of the Allied amphibious landing on the Japanese-held Bougainville Island, four Marines are sent to scout the location of Japanese minefields.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsStewart GrangerElizabeth TaylorPeter UstinovIn 1796, Captain George Bryan "Beau" Brummell of the 10th Royal Hussars Regiment offends the Prince of Wales with his straightforward outspokenness and gets fired from the Army but is chosen as the Prince's personal advisor.
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsGinger RogersLily KannStanley BakerJohnny Victor, an actress living with Louis Galt on the Riviera, becomes involved with Pierre Clemont and learns he is a dangerous criminal.
- DirectorLaslo BenedekStarsRock HudsonArlene DahlUrsula ThiessSet during British India 1857, Captain Clayboune (Rock Hudson) is faced with restoring his reputation after being harshly disciplined for disobeying orders.
- DirectorGottfried ReinhardtStarsClark GableLana TurnerVictor MatureA Dutch intelligence officer recruits an Allied woman to act as liaison with dashing Resistance leader "The Scarf" for a British attack on Arnhem.
- DirectorThomas CarrStarsBill ElliottCarleton YoungBeverly GarlandIn a film incorrectly reported as Bill Elliott's last starring western, "Bitter Creek" (released in March of 1954 carrying 16843 as the PCA number) falls a tab bit short of that as it was followed by "The Forty-Niners", (released two months later on May 9, 1954 with 16874 as the PCA number), but the correctly-reported absence of production values is duly noted. As Clay Tindall (Bill Elliott as Wild Bill Elliott), comes to a town in a search for the killer of his brother and quickly becomes unpopular with the townspeople who are unwillingly but submissive subjects to the whims of local cattleman Quentin Allen (Carleton Young) and his motley gang of hired hands and henchies. At the end, Elliott is given a typical line from his Columbia and Republic days that indicates that killing for revenge isn't admirable or the right thing to do, although he has just finished a rather thorough job of doing just that.
- DirectorJesse HibbsStarsJoel McCreaMari BlanchardRace GentryThe story of a wild black stallion and the cowboys who set out to capture him.
- DirectorHugo FregoneseStarsEdward G. RobinsonJean ParkerPeter GravesGangster Vincent Canelli and bank robber Peter Manning escape from Death Row minutes before their execution by electric chair.
- DirectorNunnally JohnsonStarsGinger RogersVan HeflinGene TierneyA young writer insinuates herself into the life of a Broadway producer.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsJoel McCreaYvonne De CarloPedro ArmendárizA Confederate officer and his men journey to Mexico to buy guns to continue the war effort. A Union officer determines to stop them.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsGene KellyVan JohnsonCyd CharisseTwo Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsSpencer TracyRobert WagnerJean PetersThe saga of the Devereaux rancher family, set in 1880's Arizona.
- DirectorLee SholemStarsJohnny WeissmullerJudy WalshDavid BruceJohnny Weissmuller fights enemy agents who are trying to steal cobalt while disguised as crocodiles.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsAnthony DexterEva GaborAlan Hale Jr.Anthony Dexter---bare-chested most of the film with the smoldering nostrils from "Valentino"---as "Captain Kidd" is saved from hanging by an Earl who wants to get his hand on Kidd's treasure. The Earl thinks the best method is to put a woman confederate (Jeanine Duvall) aboard Kidd's ship as a slave girl to wrest or wrestle the information from him. They fight a lot as a prelude to falling in love, and then work together against the evil Earl's none-too-well laid plan. Alan Hale, Jr. (Simpson) is along as Kidd's trusted friend, while Sonia Sorrell (as Ann Bonney) displays a lot of what the best-undressed female pirate wasn't wearing on pirate ships of the time.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsHarry BelafonteDorothy DandridgePearl BaileyContemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.
- DirectorKurt NeumannStarsAnne BaxterSteve CochranLyle BettgerAn American carnival in Germany sets the scene for sin, sex and melodrama.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsBob HopeJoan FontaineAudrey DaltonA meek tailor thinks his wooing will be helped if he assumes the identity of the famous Casanova...who's deeply in debt.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsBarbara StanwyckRonald ReaganGene EvansSierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsPaulette GoddardJean-Pierre AumontRichard StapleyThe downward spiral of the quality of films Paulette Goddard appeared in in the 1950's would cause a gravitational blackout to anyone viewing them in a single day, but with some of the all-time great schlock names serving as the producers---Sam Katzman, the Danziger brothers, Albert Zugsmith and---gasp---Sigmund Neufeld--- the results easily met the low expectations. This one is set during the time of the Crimean War and the efforts of the Allies to take the Russian naval base at Sebastopol. Jean Pierre Aumont and Richard Stapley are guardians of a new cannon that can pierce the walls of the Russian fortress, and also rivals for the favors of nurse Karin Booth who, as it turns out, is a Russian spy. Not a spoiler...somebody had to be. The Russians kidnap Stapley (in his pre-Richard Wyler days)to learn from him the secret of the new cannon. Aumont is assigned to rescue him. Oh, okay he says and sets out. On the way he encounters a gypsy family that includes Paulette Goddard as a daughter---beginning to sound like Ray Milland and Marlene Dietrich in "Golden Earrings" in a different time and another war--- and Aumont disguises himself as a gypsy and locates Stapley. The success of his task was guaranteed the instance the name of writer Robert E. Kent appeared on the screen about 58 minutes earlier, allowing 10-12 more minutes for Aumont and Stapley to win the war. Miss Goddard had already phoned in her performance and gone home.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsRichard CarlsonJulie AdamsRichard DenningA strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.