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Ugetsu (1953)
, 1h37Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Ghost films
Actors Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyō, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Eitarō Ozawa, Ryosuke Kagawa
Ugetsu is set in villages which line the shore of Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province in the late 16th century. It revolves around two peasant couples – Genjurō and Miyagi, Tōbei and Ohama – who are uprooted as Shibata Katsuie's army sweeps through their farming village, Nakanogō. Genjurō, a potter, takes his wares to nearby Ōmizo. He is accompanied by Tōbei, who dreams of becoming a samurai. A respected sage tells Miyagi to warn her husband about seeking profit in time of upheaval, and to prepare for a probable attack on the village. Genjurō arrives with his profits, but she asks him to stop. Genjurō nevertheless works long hours to finish his pottery. That night Nakanogō is attacked by soldiers, and the four main characters hide out in the woods.
I Confess (1953)
, 1h35Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Don Alvarado
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne, O. E. Hasse, Dolly Haas
Father Michael Logan (Clift) is a devout Catholic priest in Ste. Marie's Church in Quebec City. He employs German immigrants Otto Keller (O. E. Hasse) and his wife Alma (Dolly Haas) as caretaker and housekeeper. Otto also works part-time as a gardener for a shady lawyer called Villette.
Split Second (1953)
, 1h25Directed by Dick Powell, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, Arthur Hunnicutt, Paul Kelly
Sam Hurley (Stephen McNally) and Bart Moore (Paul Kelly) escape from prison, although Moore is seriously wounded in the breakout. They meet up with a confederate, a mute named "Dummy" (Frank de Kova), and hide out in a ghost town. Along the way, they pick up several hostages, Kay Garven (Alexis Smith) and her lover Arthur Ashton (Robert Paige), reporter Larry Fleming (Keith Andes), dancer "Dottie" Vale (Jan Sterling), and the town's sole resident, Asa Tremaine (Arthur Hunnicutt).
The Big Heat (1953)
, 1h30Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Jeanette Nolan
Homicide detective Sergeant Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford), is an honest cop who investigates the death of fellow officer Tom Duncan. It would seem to be an open-and-shut case, suicide brought on by ill health. Bannion is contacted by the late cop's mistress, Lucy Chapman (Dorothy Green), who claims it could not have been suicide. She says that the Duncans had a second home, which would not have been possible on his salary. Bannion visits Mrs. Duncan (Jeanette Nolan). He asks for particulars on the second home and she resents the implication. The next day, Bannion gets a dressing-down by Lieutenant Ted Wilks (Willis Bouchey), who is under pressure from "upstairs" to close the case.
The Wages of Fear (1953)
, 2h21Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles, Trucker films, Road movies
Actors Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli, Véra Clouzot, Darío Moreno
Frenchmen Mario and Jo, Dutchman Bimba and Italian Luigi are stuck in the isolated Southern Mexican town of Las Piedras. Surrounded by desert, the town is linked to the outside world only by a small airport, but the airfare is beyond the means of the men. There is little opportunity for employment aside from the American corporation that dominates the town, Southern Oil Company (SOC), which operates the nearby oil fields and owns a walled compound within the town. SOC is suspected of unethical practices such as exploiting local workers and taking the law into its own hands, but the townspeople's dependence upon it is such that they suffer in silence.
Thérèse Raquin (1953)
, 1h42Directed by Marcel Carné
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Sylvie, Jacques Duby, Roland Lesaffre, Nerio Bernardi
Thérèse is unhappily married to her cousin, a haberdasher in poor health. They share their home with his domineering mother who makes Thérèse's life even more miserable. When she attempts to run away with a truck driver she has fallen in love with her husband tries to prevent her, forcing her lover to take extreme action.
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
, 1h11Directed by Ida Lupino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay, Natividad Vácio, Collier Young
Two men (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) from El Centro, California are driving toward a planned fishing trip at the Mexican town of San Felipe on the Gulf of California. Just south of Mexicali, they pick up a hitchhiker named Emmett Myers (William Talman), whose stolen car has apparently run out of gas. Myers turns out to be a psychopath who has committed multiple murders while hitch-hiking between Illinois and Southern California, and has managed to slip into Mexico at Mexicali. In order to evade the pursuing authorities, Myers forces the two men at gunpoint to journey deep into the heart of the Baja California Peninsula, toward the town of Santa Rosalía, where he plans to take a ferry across the Gulf of California.
The 49th Man (1953)
, 1h13Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Themes Political films
Actors John Ireland, Richard Denning, Peter Marshall, Robert Foulk, Suzanne Dalbert, Mike Connors
After a fatal car crash in Lordsburg, New Mexico, investigators find a mysterious machine component that they turn over to the nearby Los Alamos National Laboratory for identification. Scientists there declare that it is one component of an advanced portable nuclear weapon designed by an unknown, presumably hostile power. The discovery prompts Paul Reagan (Richard Denning), chief of the Security Investigation Division (SID), to send agent John Williams (John Ireland) to investigate the source of these components and to prevent them from being assembled into a functioning weapon. As more parts are smuggled into the United States, the investigation expands and a pattern begins to emerge which points to Marseilles, France.
Black Orchid (1953)
Directed by Charles Saunders
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Ronald Howard, John Bentley, Sheila Burrell, Patrick Barr, Russell Napier, Ian Fleming
A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
, 1h17Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill, Catherine McLeod, Jack Kruschen, Barney Phillips
Whitney "Cam" Cameron (Joseph Cotten) arrives at a hospital to be with his widowed sister-in-law Lynne (Jean Peters), whose stepdaughter Polly has died under mysterious circumstances. A doctor cannot determine the cause of the child's death.
Cry of the Hunted (1953)
, 1h20Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen, William Conrad, Harry Shannon, Robert Burton
An obsessive lawman (Barry Sullivan) who works for the state chases an escaped fugitive (Vittorio Gassman) through the Louisiana bayou.
Escape by Night (1953)
, 1h19Directed by John Gilling
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Bonar Colleano, Patrick Barr, Sid James, Avice Landone, Andrew Ray, Ronald Adam
Tom Buchan (Colleano) is an alcoholic journalist whose once memorable work has been destroyed by his constant drunken antics that have cost him his future. Buchan boasts to his colleagues that they report news, whilst he makes it. He sees a chance for redemption by getting the life story of Gino Rossi (James), an Italian crime boss on the run. He wins Rossi's confidence by tipping him off to the police coming to arrest them (after Buchnan himself tipped off the police).
The Fake (1953)
, 1h20Directed by Godfrey Grayson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams, Guy Middleton, John Laurie, Eliot Makeham
Girls in the Night (1953)
, 1h23Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Harvey Lembeck, Glenda Farrell, Leonard Freeman, Jeff Chandler, Don Gordon, Anthony Ross
Hannah Haynes, a pretty girl who competes in a beauty contest, dreams of moving away from her New York slum neighborhood. So does older brother Chuck, who has a chance to land a new job on Long Island, but is hit by a car and needs to recover first.
The Glass Web (1953)
, 1h21Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Edward G. Robinson, John Forsythe, Kathleen Hughes, Eve McVeagh, Richard Denning, Hugh Sanders
A research authority for television crime show knows too much about fact-based murder story.