On the Waterfront
Movie / 1954-06-22 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Leonard Bernstein
A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.
Dial M for Murder
Movie / 1954-05-29 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Dimitri Tiomkin
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.
Men of the Fighting Lady
Movie / 1954-05-07 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
A writer visits an aircraft carrier during the Korean war to learn more about it and the way it's run. He also gets to find out more about the Navy and Marine aviators themselves, their internal and external conflicts and dangers of their job.
Flame and the Flesh
Movie / 1954-05-05 / United States / Releases: 0 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
American woman in Europe romanced by local gigolo; problems ensue.
Three Coins in the Fountain
Movie / 1954-05-01 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Victor Young
Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a secretary at a government agency, sets out to win the heart of her smooth-talking novelist employer; Anita, her coworker, defies office regulations by romancing an Italian who works at the agency; and office newcomer Maria meets a real Italian Prince Charming and falls madly in love. The only thing the three hopeful ladies need to do is seal their fate.
River of No Return
Movie / 1954-04-30 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Cyril J. Mockridge, Lionel Newman, Leigh Harline
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
Prince Valiant
Movie / 1954-04-05 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Franz Waxman
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Movie / 1954-03-05 / United States / Releases: 0 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.
The Naked Jungle
Movie / 1954-03-03 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Daniele Amfitheatrof
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
King of the Khyber Rifles
Movie / 1953-12-23 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bernard Herrmann
Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest Frontier province garrison near the Khyber pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. As soon as his fellow officers learn his mother was a native Muslim which got his parents disowned even by their own families, he falls prey to stubborn prejudiced discrimination, Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath even moves out of their quarters, except from half-Irish Lt. Ben Baird.
Knights of the Round Table
Movie / 1953-12-22 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.
Escape From Fort Bravo
Movie / 1953-12-04 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jeff Alexander
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Movie / 1953-12-02 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bernard Herrmann
Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the Rhys brothers, Mike decides to take his men to the dangerous 12-mile reef to dive for more sponges. Mike suffers a fatal accident when he falls from the reef leaving Tony to carry on the business. But now he has a companion, Gwyneth Rhys.
All the Brothers Were Valiant
Movie / 1953-11-13 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.
How to Marry a Millionaire
Movie / 1953-10-29 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Alfred Newman
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
The Robe
Movie / 1953-09-16 / United States / Releases: 4 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Alfred Newman
Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but when Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions and feels guilty for his actions. Convinced that destroying the robe will cure him, Marcellus sets out to find Demetrius — and discovers his Christian faith along the way.
The War of the Worlds
Movie / 1953-08-13 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Leith Stevens
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
Dangerous Crossing
Movie / 1953-07-22 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Alfred Newman, Sol Kaplan
A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the bride finds herself suddenly alone, and unable to convince anyone of her husband’s existence.
White Witch Doctor
Movie / 1953-07-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bernard Herrmann
Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fortune hunter, agrees to take her upriver, despite his misgivings about her suitability for Africa. They battle escaped gorillas, hostile natives, infected lion wounds, and hostile witch doctors to reach their destination and on the way, they fall in love. Will their contrasting interests doom their romance?
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Movie / 1953-06-19 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Robert van Eps, Heinz Roemheld, Friedrich Hollaender, Hans J. Salter
Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart's existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream.
Le Retour de Don Camillo
Movie / 1953-06-05 / Italy / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
Julius Caesar
Movie / 1953-06-04 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Young Bess
Movie / 1953-05-29 / United States / Releases: 4 / Recordings: 3
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
Pickup on South Street
Movie / 1953-05-27 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Leigh Harline
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
Man on a Tightrope
Movie / 1953-05-21 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Franz Waxman
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.