1953 Movies

The production and filming budgets were provided in full by the USIA. A Hollywood director, B. Reeves Eason (1886-1956) was invited to Singapore to ma...

A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

Liisa, the daughter of fisherman Simeon, is having a romance with Peter, a city dweller who has arrived on the island. Liisa feels she is being punish...

1953 drama film written and directed by Doe Ching. It is one of the earliest known productions by the Shaw Brothers credited as Shaw and Sons. The fil...

At the home of Viennese composer Johann Strauss lived Johann Mouse. Whenever the composer played his waltzes, the mouse would dance to the music, unab...

Signe Hasso talks (in English) about Skansen, the museum/zoo of Stockholm.

Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs int...

Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. The brothers feud over L...

Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.

Singapore production featuring music and songs by P. Ramlee

A family tragedy causes a college football quarterback to re-think his goals in life.

Julien Pauphilat is the doorman at the famous restaurant, Maxim's and is also the confidant of many of his customers. As a consequence, in this post,...

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

The stooges are willed a lot of dough from a rich uncle, but the executor of the estate, Icabob Slipp, is a crook who absconds with the money. The sto...

This early leftist social drama from Hong Kong offers a panoramic portrait of a crumbling apartment complex and its down-and-out denizens, including a...

The hilarious adventures of a swooning movie fan when she meets her favorite movie star.

A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.

A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.