11. The Crimson Pirate
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Siodmak
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter, Leslie Bradley
Plot: Classic swashbuckling action as a sword-fighting, acrobatic pirate finds intrigue amongst the Caribbean revolution in the 1700s.
12. Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice, The ( Ochazuke no aji )
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Actors: Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Koji Tsuruta, Chikage Awashima, Keiko Tsushima, Eijirô Yanagi
Plot: An upper-class woman finds herself becoming rather bored of her life to her rather dull middle-class husband (by arranged marriage) even while encouraging her niece to go along with her own arranged meetings.
13. Life of Oharu, The ( Saikaku ichidai onna )
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Actors: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai, Toshirô Mifune, Toshiaki Konoe, Kiyoko Tsuji
Plot: An aging prostitute, finding it harder and harder to attract any men - reflects on her life and how it came to be: once a lady-in-waiting at the Imperial Court, she found herself falling in love with a samurai - a man well below her station. Once discovered, her entire family was exiled and thus began her fall.
14. Bend of the River
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson, Lori Nelson, Jay C. Flippen
Plot: Glyn McLyntock and Emerson Cole are two men looking to escape their pasts and lead a group of homesteaders from Missouri to Oregon. They settle just outside Portland and, as winter approaches, they target supplies held by corrupt officials in order to secure their community. Yet once they have the supplies, Cole turns on McLyntock, planning to turn the supplies over the a gold mining camp for a hefty profit.
15. Monkey Business
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe, Henri Letondal
Plot: A chemist stumbles upon a formula that brings back youth - and after taking a dose, finds himself living the good life of teenager. But when his wife receives an even bigger dose, it opens the door for all kinds of trouble.
16. Les miserables
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Milestone
Actors: Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Robert Newton, Sylvia Sidney, Cameron Mitchell, Elsa Lanchester
Plot: Adaptation of the novel by Victor Hugo in which ex-convict Jean Valjean vows to change his life after a bishop shows him a kind act but the obsessive Inspector Javert, who believes in law over everything else, does not give up his pursuit.
17. Clash by Night
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe, J. Carrol Naish, Keith Andes
Plot: A cynical woman returns to her fishing village home after life and love have brought nothing but hurt in New York. She lodges with her brother, Joe, and quickly finds herself the object of affection for two men: the kind, naive Jerry D'Amato and the brutish Earl Pfeiffer, who is caught in a bitter marriage. Although she marries Jerry, and they have a daughter, it is a loveless relationship. When Earl's wife finally leaves hims, he becomes depressed, and she is there to comfort him.
18. Sudden Fear
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Miller
Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Mike Connors, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston
Plot: Ambitious actor Lester Blaine seems destined to be the star in Myra Hudson's new play, until the woman dashes his hopes by proclaiming is his not romantic enough. Seeing opportunity, he romances Myra himself - all the while plotting with his mistress to murder her.
19. 5 Fingers
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden, Oskar Karlweis, John Wengraf
20. The Big Sky
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt, Buddy Baer, Hank Worden
Plot: Jim Deakins - frontiersman and Indian trader - is on a journey up the Missouri River with a group of men, looking to trade with the friendly Blackfoot tribe for a large amount of furs. Yet the trip takes them through hostile territory and the men have underestimated the challenges. As the group is slowly taken out - soon only Deakins and a handful of men are there to finish the journey.
