1953 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1953

Notable Films Released in 1953

U.S.A. unless stated

• 99 River Street, starring John Payne and Evelyn Keyes
• The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, starring Tommy Rettig

A

• Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
• Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• The Actress, starring Spencer Tracy and Jean Simmons
• Albert R.N., starring Anthony Steel and Jack Warner - (Britain)
• The All-American, starring Tony Curtis
• All I Desire, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• All the Brothers Were Valiant, starring Ann Blyth
• Anarkali - (India)
• Appointment in Honduras, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Ann Sheridan and Glenn Ford
• Arrowhead, starring Charlton Heston and Jack Palance

B

• Baaz, directed by and starring Guru Dutt - (India)
• The Band Wagon, starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Jack Buchanan, Nanette Fabray, Oscar Levant
• The Bandit of Brazil (O Cangaceiro) - (Brazil)
• The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, starring Paula Raymond and Cecil Kellaway
• Beat the Devil, directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida - (Italy/Britain/U.S.A.)
• The Beggar's Opera, starring Laurence Olivier and Dorothy Tutin - (Britain)
• Belinsky - (U.S.S.R.)
• Ben and Me, featuring the voices of Sterling Holloway and Charles Ruggles
• Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, starring Robert Wagner
• Bienvenido Mr. Marshall, directed by Luis García Berlanga, starring Fernando Rey - (Spain)
• The Bigamist, directed by and starring Ida Lupino, with Joan Fontaine and Edmond O'Brien
• The Big Heat, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin
• Big Leaguer, starring Edward G. Robinson
• The Blue Gardenia, starring Anne Baxter and Raymond Burr
• A Blueprint for Murder, starring Joseph Cotten and Jean Peters
• Bread, Love and Dreams (Pane, amore e fantasia), starring Vittorio De Sica and Gina Lollobrigida - (Italy)
• The Brute (El Bruto), directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Pedro Armendáriz and Katy Jurado - (Mexico)

C

• The Caddy, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Calamity Jane, starring Doris Day
• Call Me Madam, starring Ethel Merman
• The Captain's Paradise, starring Alec Guinness - (Britain)
• Carbine Williams, starring James Stewart and Jean Hagen
• Cease Fire
• City Beneath the Sea, starring Robert Ryan, Anthony Quinn, Mala Powers
• City That Never Sleeps, starring Gig Young, William Talman, Paula Raymond, Mala Powers
• The Clown, starring Red Skelton
• Confidentially Connie, starring Van Johnson and Janet Leigh
• The Conquest of Everest - (documentary) - (Britain)
• The Cruel Sea, starring Jack Hawkins and Denholm Elliott - (Britain)
• Cry of the Hunted, starring Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen

D-F

• Dangerous Crossing, starring Jeanne Crain and Michael Rennie
• Dangerous When Wet, starring Esther Williams
• The Desert Rats, starring Richard Burton and James Mason
• Desperate Moment, starring Dirk Bogarde and Mai Zetterling - (Britain)
• Devdas - (India)
• Do Bigha Zamin (Two Acres of Land), directed by Bimal Roy - (India)
• Donovan's Brain, starring Lew Ayres and Nancy Davis
• Down Among the Sheltering Palms, starring Mitzi Gaynor, Gloria DeHaven, Jane Greer
• Dream Wife, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr
• Él (Him), directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Arturo de Córdova - (Mexico)
• The Earrings of Madame de..., directed by Max Ophüls, starring Charles Boyer - (France/Italy)
• East of Sumatra, starring Anthony Quinn and Jeff Chandler
• Easy to Love, starring Esther Williams
• Easy Years (Anni facili), directed by Luigi Zampa - (Italy)
• The Eddie Cantor Story, starring Keefe Brasselle
• Entotsu no mieru basho (The Four Chimneys) - (Japan)
• Escape By Night, starring Bonar Colleano and Sid James - (Britain)
• Escape from Fort Bravo, directed by John Sturges, starring William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe
• Fair Wind to Java, starring Fred MacMurray and Vera Ralston
• The Farmer Takes a Wife, starring Betty Grable
• Fear and Desire, directed by Stanley Kubrick
• Fast Company, starring Howard Keel and Polly Bergen
• The Final Test, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Jack Warner (Britain)
• Folly to Be Wise, directed by Frank Launder, starring Alastair Sim - (Britain)
• Footpath, starring Dilip Kumar - (India)
• From Here to Eternity, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Warden, George Reeves -- winner of 8 Oscars

G-H

• Gate of Hell (Jigokumon) - (Japan)
• A Geisha (Gion Bayashi), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi - (Japan)
• Genevieve, starring Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall - (Britain)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe
• The Girl Next Door, starring June Haver and Dan Dailey
• The Girl Who Had Everything, starring Elizabeth Taylor, William Powell, Fernando Lamas, Gig Young
• Give a Girl a Break, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Debbie Reynolds, Marge Champion, Gower Champion
• The Glass Wall, starring Vittorio Gassman and Gloria Grahame
• The Golden Blade, starring Rock Hudson and Piper Laurie
• The Great Adventure (Det stora äventyret), directed by Arne Sucksdorff - (Sweden)
• The Great Sioux Uprising, starring Jeff Chandler
• Gun Fury, starring Rock Hudson and Donna Reed
• The Heart of the Matter, starring Trevor Howard - (Britain)
• The Hitch-Hiker, directed by Ida Lupino, starring Edmond O'Brien and William Talman
• Hondo, starring John Wayne and Geraldine Page in her film debut
• Houdini, starring (husband and wife) Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
• House of Wax, starring Vincent Price
• How to Marry a Millionaire, starring Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall (Grable, Fox's top star of the 1940s, with Monroe, Fox's top star of the 1950s)

I-J

• I Confess, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter
• I, the Jury, starring Biff Elliot and Peggie Castle
• I Love Lucy, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
• I Vitelloni, directed by Federico Fellini - (France/Italy)
• Inferno, starring Robert Ryan
• Interim, directed by Stan Brakhage, short film (25 ½ minutes); music by James Tenney)
• The Intruder, starring Jack Hawkins - (Britain
• Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?, starring Bonar Colleano and Diana Dors - (Britain)
• Island in the Sky, starring John Wayne
• It Came from Outer Space, directed by Jack Arnold, starring Richard Carlson
• Jennifer, starring Ida Lupino and Howard Duff
• Jeopardy, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker
• Julius Caesar, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Louis Calhern, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr

K-L

• The Kidnappers, starring Jon Whiteley - (Britain)
• King of the Khyber Rifles, starring Tyrone Power
• Kiss Me Kate, starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, released in 2-D and 3-D
• The Lady Without Camelias (La signora senza camelie), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - (Italy)
• The Landowner's Daughter (Sinhá Moça), starring Anselmo Duarte - (Brazil)
• Latin Lovers, starring Lana Turner
• Law and Order, a western starring Ronald Reagan
• The Lawless Breed, starring Rock Hudson
• Lili, starring Leslie Caron
• The Limping Man, starring Lloyd Bridges - (U.K.)
• A Lion Is in the Streets, starring James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis
• Little Fugitive

M

• Malta Story, starring Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel, Muriel Pavlow - (Britain)
• Man in the Attic, starring Jack Palance and Constance Smith
• The Man Between, starring James Mason and Claire Bloom - (Britain)
• Man in the Dark, starring Edmond O'Brien and Audrey Totter
• Man on a Tightrope, starring Fredric March and Gloria Grahame
• Martin Luther - (U.S.A./West Germany)
• Meet Me at the Fair, starring Dan Dailey and Diana Lynn
• Miss Sadie Thompson, starring Rita Hayworth
• The Mississippi Gambler, starring Tyrone Power and Piper Laurie
• Mogambo, starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly (a remake of the 1932 film Red Dust which starred Gable with Jean Harlow)
• Money from Home, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot), directed by and starring Jacques Tati - (France)
• The Moon Is Blue, first U.S. movie to use the words "pregnant" and "virgin", directed by Otto Preminger, starring William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara
• The Moonlighter, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray

N-O

• The Naked Spur, starring James Stewart, Robert Ryan and Janet Leigh
• The Net, directed by Anthony Asquith - (Britain)
• Niagara, starring Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten
• No Way Back (Weg Ohne Umkehr) - (West Germany)

P-Q

• Patita, starring Dev Anand and Usha Kiran - (India)
• Peter Pan, a Walt Disney animation featuring the voice of Bobby Driscoll
• The Phantom Stockman, starring Chips Rafferty - (Australia)
• Pickup on South Street, directed by Sam Fuller, starring Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter
• Plunder of the Sun, starring Glenn Ford
• Pony Express, starring Charlton Heston (as Buffalo Bill)
• The President's Lady (Charlton Heston's first turn at Andrew Jackson before The Buccaneer)

R

• Report News (Reportaje), starring Arturo de Córdova and Dolores del Río - (Mexico)
• Return to Paradise, starring Gary Cooper
• Ride, Vaquero!, starring Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner
• The Robe, the first movie filmed in CinemaScope, starring Richard Burton and Jean Simmons
• Roman Holiday, directed by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning first leading role

S

• Salome, starring Rita Hayworth
• Sawdust and Tinsel (Gycklarnas afton), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
• Scared Stiff, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Sea Devils, starring Rock Hudson and Yvonne De Carlo - (Britain/U.S.A.)
• Seminole, starring Rock Hudson and Anthony Quinn
• Shane, directed by George Stevens, starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur (in her final film role), Brandon de Wilde, Ben Johnson, Jack Palance
• Siamo Donne (We, the Women), starring Alida Valli and Ingrid Bergman - (Italy)
• Small Town Girl, starring Jane Powell and Ann Miller
• So Big, directed by Robert Wise, starring Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Steve Forrest
• So This Is Love, starring Kathryn Grayson and Merv Griffin
• South Sea Woman, starring Burt Lancaster and Virginia Mayo
• Split Second, starring Alexis Smith and Jan Sterling
• Stalag 17, directed by Billy Wilder, starring William Holden (in his Oscar-winning role), Don Taylor, Harvey Lembeck, Robert Strauss, Otto Preminger, Peter Graves
• Stars of the Russian Ballet (Mastera russkogo baleta), starring Galina Ulanova - (USSR)
• The State Department Store (Állami Áruház) - (Hungary)
• The Steel Lady, starring Rod Cameron and Tab Hunter
• The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, starring Robert Morley and Maurice Evans - (Britain)
• The Story of Little Muck (Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck) - (East Germany)
• The Story of Three Loves, trilogy starring James Mason, Leslie Caron, Kirk Douglas
• Summer with Monika (Sommaren med Monika), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Harriet Andersson - (Sweden)
• The Sun Shines Bright, directed by John Ford, starring Charles Winninger

T-V

• Take the High Ground!, starring Richard Widmark and Karl Malden
• Take Me to Town, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Ann Sheridan and Sterling Hayden
• Thérèse Raquin, directed by Marcel Carné, starring Simone Signoret - (France)
• Three Perfect Wives (Las Tres perfectas casadas), starring Arturo de Córdova - (Mexico)
• Thunder Over the Plains, starring Randolph Scott
• Titanic, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb, Thelma Ritter, Brian Aherne, Robert Wagner
• The Titfield Thunderbolt, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Stanley Holloway - (Britain)
• Tokyo Story (Tōkyō Monogatari), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
• Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom
• Torch Song, starring Joan Crawford
• Treasure of the Golden Condor, directed by Delmer Daves, starring Cornel Wilde
• Trouble Along the Way, starring John Wayne
• Trouble in Store, starring Norman Wisdom - (Britain)
• Twice Upon a Time, directed by Emeric Pressburger - (Britain)
• Ugetsu (Ugetsu monogatari), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi - (Japan)
• The Vanquished (I Vinti), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - (Italy)

W-Z

• The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Yves Montand - winner of Golden Bear and Palme d'Or awards - (France)
• War Arrow, starring Maureen O'Hara and Jeff Chandler
• The War of the Worlds, starring Gene Barry
• White Lightning, starring Stanley Clements and Steve Brodie
• White Mane (Crin Blanc, Cheval Sauvage) - (France)
• White Witch Doctor, starring Robert Mitchum and Susan Hayward
• The Wild One, starring Marlon Brando (a film thought by some to have started the generation gap between adults and young people)
• Young Bess, starring Jean Simmons, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton