31. Senso
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luchino Visconti
Actors: Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli, Christian Marquand, Ernst Nadherny
Plot: An Italian Countess begins an affair with a young Austrian lieutenant even as her country is under Austrian occupation. The affair threatens her personal and political life, but she continues the relationship despite the risk.
32. Wuthering Heights ( Abismos de pasión )
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado, Ernesto Alonso, Francisco Reiguera, Hortensia Santoveña
33. The Glenn Miller Story
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake, George Tobias, Barton MacLane
34. Dixieland Droopy
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tex Avery
Actors: Bill Thompson
35. Hobson's Choice
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Lean
Actors: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales, Derek Blomfield
Plot: Set in late nineteenth-century Lancashire, this story follows the fortunes of an overbearing boot-maker named Henry Hobson. As he yields increasingly to alcoholism and becomes ever more bellicose, Henry begins to lose control of his circumstances. When his headstrong eldest daughter, Maggie, declares that she will marry her father's meek yet talented cobbler, Willie Mossop, Henry's angry reaction drives the pair to leave and begin a store in rivalry of their father's. This precipitates a series of events at the end of which Henry must choose to cling to pride or to preserve his very well-being.
36. Carmen Jones
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Otto Preminger
Actors: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Olga James, Joe Adams, Brock Peters
Plot: A young man in the U.S. Air Force dumps his sweetheart for a wilder and
unobtainable woman.
37. Magnificent Obsession
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Douglas Sirk
Actors: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger, Gregg Palmer
38. Brigadoon
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Actors: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Barry Jones, Elaine Stewart, Hugh Laing
Plot: Gene Kelly stumbles across the enchanted town of Brigadoon, which appears from the Scottish mists only one day each century. In the course of this magical day, Kelly falls for a woman and must decide whether to leave the real world behind and take up permanent residence in Brigadoon.
39. Utopia ( Atoll K )
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Léo Joannon
Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Suzy Delair, Max Elloy, Suzet Maïs, Adriano Rimoldi
40. Twenty-Four Eyes ( Nijushi no hitomi )
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Actors: Hideki Goko, Hideko Takamine, Yukio Watanabe, Makoto Miyagawa, Takero Terashita, Kunio Sato
Plot: This intimate saga follows a rural Japanese schoolteacher and her first twelve pupils from the 1920s through World War II.
