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.
Ivanhoe
Movie / 1952-07-31 / United States / Releases: 4 / Recordings: 2
Composed by
Miklós Rózsa
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
Lure of the Wilderness
Movie / 1952-07-16 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Franz Waxman
A young girl and her father, who is unjustly accused of murder, seek refuge in a Georgia swamp until they are befriended by a trapper who penetrates the swamp in search of his dog.
Pat and Mike
Movie / 1952-06-13 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
David Raksin
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
High Noon
Movie / 1952-06-09 / United States / Releases: 0 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Lydia Bailey
Movie / 1952-05-30 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture, the black president, and the French who are trying to retake possession of the country. Hamlin finds Lydia and, against the background of war and rebellion, they fall in love while helping the Haitians against the French.
The Girl in White
Movie / 1952-05-23 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
David Raksin
The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.
Pony Soldier
Movie / 1952-04-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Alex North
Duncan MacDonald, a 19th-century Royal Canadian Mountie, has to escort a group of Cree Indians back to their above-the-border reservation. His guide in this endeavor is the not-too-trustworthy half-breed Natayo.
Don Camillo
Movie / 1952-03-28 / Italy / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
The Belle of New York
Movie / 1952-02-22 / United States / Releases: 0 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. The object of his affections is beautiful Angela Bonfils, a mission house worker in the Bowery. He promises to reform his dissolute life, even trying to do an honest day's work.
5 Fingers
Movie / 1952-02-22 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Bernard Herrmann
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
Viva Zapata!
Movie / 1952-02-07 / United States / Releases: 5 / Recordings: 2
Composed by
Alex North
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
Invitation
Movie / 1952-01-29 / United States / Releases: 0 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.
The Wild North
Movie / 1952-01-28 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Bronislau Kaper
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
Death of a Salesman
Movie / 1951-12-20 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Alex North
Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.
On Dangerous Ground
Movie / 1951-12-13 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Bernard Herrmann
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
The Light Touch
Movie / 1951-12-06 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Miklós Rózsa
An art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.
The Man with a Cloak
Movie / 1951-11-27 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
David Raksin
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
Quo Vadis
Movie / 1951-11-08 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 3
Composed by
Miklós Rózsa
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Anne of the Indies
Movie / 1951-10-18 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Franz Waxman
After buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle and recruits him into her pirate crew, their growing attraction is tested when Captain Blackbeard reveals LaRochelle's true identity as a former French navy officer.
Across the Wide Missouri
Movie / 1951-10-12 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
David Raksin
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Movie / 1951-09-28 / United States / Releases: 6 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Bernard Herrmann
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.