1952 Archives

Jack and the Beanstalk

A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans.

1952 Comedy 70 min Play

The Quiet Man

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

1952 Comedy 129 min Play

6.3

The Greatest Show on Earth

To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.

6.3

1952 Drama 152 min Play

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.

1952 Action 84 min Play

Angels One Five

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.

1952 Drama 98 min Play

The Black Castle

A Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.

1952 Adventure 106 min Play

1952 Horror 82 min Play

6.9

Ivanhoe

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.

6.9

Viva Zapata!

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Diaz in the early 20th century.

1952 History 113 min Play

6.6

Rancho Notorious

A cowboy infiltrates a bandit hideout in search of his girlfriend's killer.

6.6

1952 Western 89 min Play

6.8

Blackbeard’s Ghost

Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester (Stowecroft). The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker (Jones) gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.

6.8

1952, 1968 Comedy 106 min Play

The African Queen

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.