Ride, Vaquero!
Movie / 1953-07-17 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bronislau Kaper
Two Mexican outlaws, Rio and Esqueda, raised as stepbrothers, have a showdown over the issue of whether to evict new settlers from their Texas border territory.
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 Friedrich Hollaender, Hans J. Salter, Heinz Roemheld, Robert van Eps
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.
Code Two
Movie / 1953-04-24 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
Three young men train to become motorcycle cops.
Shane
Movie / 1953-04-23 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Victor Young
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
The Story of Three Loves
Movie / 1953-03-26 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
Destination Gobi
Movie / 1953-03-20 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Sol Kaplan
A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their ship while under attack from the Japanese.
Rogue's March
Movie / 1953-02-13 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.
Treasure of the Golden Condor
Movie / 1953-02-04 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Sol Kaplan
A nobleman searches for a hidden treasure in Guatemala.
General Electric Theater
Television / 1953-02-01 / United States / Releases: 0 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
The Naked Spur
Movie / 1953-01-29 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bronislau Kaper
A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
Niagara
Movie / 1953-01-26 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Sol Kaplan
Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.
Above and Beyond
Movie / 1953-01-02 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Hugo Friedhofer
The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but as time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.
My Cousin Rachel
Movie / 1952-12-25 / United States / Releases: 4 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Franz Waxman
A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.
Thunder in the East
Movie / 1952-12-04 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Hugo Friedhofer
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve's love interest is Joan Willoughby, the blind daughter of a parson.
Plymouth Adventure
Movie / 1952-11-28 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bradford's wife Dorothy.
Desperate Search
Movie / 1952-11-19 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) search for their two children lost with a cougar.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Movie / 1952-09-17 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bernard Herrmann
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
What Price Glory
Movie / 1952-08-22 / United States / Releases: 0 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg's top sergeant. And when a local beauty comes between them, their rivalry escalates even further. But when they discover that the woman has marriage in mind, they now compete to try to avoid marching down the aisle - that is, until they are called upon to march into battle.
Les Miserables
Movie / 1952-08-14 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Alex North
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.