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1. A Millionaire for Christy (1951)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

A secretary is sent on a business trip to inform a radio personality he's just inherited two million dollars. She falls for him instantly, but he's on his way to get married.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Eleanor Parker, Richard Carlson, Una Merkel

Votes: 540

2. A Place in the Sun (1951)

Passed | 122 min | Drama, Romance

76 Metascore

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere

Votes: 24,761

3. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

PG | 122 min | Drama

97 Metascore

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden

Votes: 114,323 | Gross: $8.00M

4. A Yank in Korea (1951)

Approved | 73 min | Drama, War

Shortly after the declaration of war between the United States and Korea, mechanical engineering college student Andy Smith inadvertently volunteers for enlistment in the Army while trying ... See full synopsis »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Lon McCallister, William 'Bill' Phillips, Brett King, Larry Stewart

Votes: 35

5. Abilene Trail (1951)

Approved | 54 min | Western

Fleeing a sheriff's posse after being unjustly accused as horse-thieves, Dave "Kansas Kid" Hill and Sagebrush Charlie are befriended by Ed Dawson, who is wounded while helping them escape. ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Tommy Farrell, Steve Clark

Votes: 32

6. According to Mrs. Hoyle (1951)

Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Comedy

Mrs. Hoyle, a retired school teacher, resides in a hotel bought by Morganti, a gangster, who evicts most of the tenants but allows Mrs. Hoyle and Angela Brown, a dance-hall girl to remain. ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Spring Byington, Anthony Caruso, Tanis Chandler, Brett King

Votes: 133

7. Ace in the Hole (1951)

Approved | 111 min | Drama, Film-Noir

72 Metascore

A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall

Votes: 39,104 | Gross: $3.97M

8. Across the Wide Missouri (1951)

Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Trapper Flint Mitchell and other mountain men from the Rendezvous join forces to enter virgin trapping territory but must contend with a resentful Blackfoot chief.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, Adolphe Menjou

Votes: 2,285

9. Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)

Passed | 100 min | Adventure

A sea captain becomes involved with a servant girl in early New Orleans. She sees him as a way to gain access into wealthy households.

Directors: William Marshall, Robert Florey | Stars: Errol Flynn, Micheline Presle, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead

Votes: 413

10. Air Cadet (1951)

Approved | 94 min | Biography, Drama, War

A group of cadets have assorted problems at the U.S. Air Force Pilot Training Academy.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Stephen McNally, Gail Russell, Alex Nicol, Richard Long

Votes: 174

11. Al Jennings of Oklahoma (1951)

Passed | 79 min | Biography, Western

Bank robber serves his time in prison, tries to go straight.

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Dan Duryea, Gale Storm, Dick Foran, Gloria Henry

Votes: 302

12. Alice in Wonderland (1951)

G | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

68 Metascore

Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.

Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney | Stars: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway

Votes: 154,021 | Gross: $1.07M

13. All That I Have (1951)

55 min | Drama

Dr. Charles Greyson is a famous and wealthy former surgeon. His nephews have taken him to court to challenge his competency, due to his recent inexplicable gifts of large amounts of cash to... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Houseley Stevenson, Donald Woods, Onslow Stevens, Robert Stevenson

Votes: 38

14. Along the Great Divide (1951)

Approved | 88 min | Western

A U.S. Marshall and two deputies rescue a cattle rustler from a lynch mob led by a local cattle baron convinced that the rustler also killed his son.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar, Walter Brennan

Votes: 2,263

15. An American in Paris (1951)

Passed | 114 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

83 Metascore

Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.

Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary

Votes: 36,873 | Gross: $4.50M

16. Angels in the Outfield (1951)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

72 Metascore

The Pittsburgh Pirates' brash and abusive manager receives the help of an angel to win games and become a better person in the process.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Donna Corcoran

Votes: 2,963

17. Anne of the Indies (1951)

Approved | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In order to recover his ship impounded by the British, former pirate captain LaRochelle agrees to spy on the notorious Caribbean Sea pirates Blackbeard and Anne Providence.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, Herbert Marshall

Votes: 1,493

18. Apache Drums (1951)

Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, Willard Parker, Arthur Shields

Votes: 943

20. As You Were (1951)

Unrated | 57 min | Comedy

Oh, those Army daze and nights! An infusion of WAC beauties adds to the fun when ex-G.I. "Dodo" Doubleday (William Tracy), now a hotel clerk, impresses Army brass with his memory and ... See full summary »

Directors: Bernard Girard, Fred Guiol | Stars: William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Russell Hicks, John Ridgely

Votes: 48

21. Arizona Manhunt (1951)

Passed | 60 min | Western

Female gang boss poses as welfare worker come to take charge of outlaw's orphaned niece, in order to break the rest of the gang from jail.

Director: Fred C. Brannon | Stars: Michael Chapin, Eilene Janssen, James Bell, Lucille Barkley

Votes: 20

22. As Young as You Feel (1951)

Approved | 77 min | Comedy

A 65-year-old printer hatches an elaborate scheme to avoid forced retirement.

Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter, David Wayne, Jean Peters

Votes: 1,430

23. Badman's Gold (1951)

Approved | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

Unable to cope with a series of raids on stagecoaches hauling gold to the U. S. Mint, Sheriff Masters appeals to the U. S. Marshal's office for help. The Marshal assigns his best man, ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Johnny Carpenter, Alyn Lockwood, Clarke Stevens, Kenne Duncan

Votes: 32

24. Bannerline (1951)

Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance

A cub reporter finagled a fake front page showing a dying professor's plan for civic reform.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Keefe Brasselle, Sally Forrest, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone

Votes: 170

25. Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

A college professor attempts to salvage his personal and professional reputation by using a laboratory chimpanzee to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak, Lucille Barkley

Votes: 1,105

26. Behave Yourself! (1951)

Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Crime

When a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog. Who will be bumbling Bill's undoing - the gangsters, the cops, or his suspicious mother-in-law?

Director: George Beck | Stars: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest, Francis L. Sullivan

Votes: 816

27. Belle Le Grand (1951)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Western

After serving a prison sentence in 1850, a New Orleans woman becomes a rich gambler, opens a casino on the Barbary Coast, gets romantically involved with Nevada mine owners and watches over the interests of her little sister.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Vera Ralston, John Carroll, William Ching, Hope Emerson

Votes: 198

28. Best of the Badmen (1951)

Approved | 84 min | Western

The outlaws of the Clanton and Younger gangs are the heroes of this fictionalized biography.

Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Robert Ryan, Claire Trevor, Jack Buetel, Robert Preston

Votes: 698

29. Bird of Paradise (1951)

Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

An island Princess falls for a visiting Frenchman, but her people are against it.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Debra Paget, Louis Jourdan, Jeff Chandler, Everett Sloane

Votes: 523

30. Birthright (1951)

51 min | Drama

Chicken farmer John Lloyd learns the importance of blood tests when he gives his pregnant wife a dose of the clap after a one-night fling with a lonely waitress. Shot in Harmony, Georgia, ... See full summary »

Director: Bill Clifford | Stars: Boyce Brown, Marjory Morris, W.O. Jarrett, Mrs. W.O. Jarrett

Votes: 54

31. Blazing Bullets (1951)

Approved | 51 min | Western

Following his refusal to let his daughter Carol marry cowhand Bill Grant, rancher John Roberts is kidnapped, and Bill is hunted for the crime. Carol abandons the ranch which soon earns a ... See full summary »

Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Lois Hall, House Peters Jr., Stanley Price

Votes: 28

32. Blue Blood (1951)

72 min | Drama

Old, down-on-his-luck race-horse trainer Tim is thumbing his way from San Francisco to Los Angeles when he is given a ride by Eileen and Sue Buchanan, daughters of a wealthy Southen ... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Bill Williams, Jane Nigh, Arthur Shields, Audrey Long

Votes: 34

33. Bonanza Town (1951)

Passed | 56 min | Drama, Music, Western

A man's pursuit of some wanted criminals is hindered by the interference of a crooked judge.

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Charles Starrett, Fred F. Sears, Luther Crockett, Myron Healey

Votes: 132

34. Border Fence (1951)

Approved | 59 min | Western

Filmed in the San Antonio area by H. W. Kier's regional Gulf Coast Productions and one of the few Gulf Coast films that managed to be shown outside Gulf Coast's normal territory of Texas ... See full summary »

Directors: H.W. Kier, Norman Sheldon | Stars: Walt Wayne, Lee Morgan, Mary Nord, Steve Raines

35. Bowery Battalion (1951)

Passed | 69 min | Action, Comedy

In order to trap some spies, the Bowery Boys join the Army.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Donald MacBride, Virginia Hewitt

Votes: 351

36. Bride of the Gorilla (1951)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Horror

The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla.

Director: Curt Siodmak | Stars: Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr., Raymond Burr, Tom Conway

Votes: 1,435

37. Bright Victory (1951)

Approved | 97 min | Drama, Romance, War

After he gets blinded by a German sniper's bullet in 1943, Sergeant Larry Nevins begins the long and painful road to recovery.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julie Adams, James Edwards

Votes: 978

38. Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas (1951)

Approved | 60 min | Western

At the end of the Civil War, Sam White returns home to his ranch in the Texas ranch -The Panhandle - to find it in the hands of a gang of outlaws. The gang is led by Sam's foreman, Jim ... See full summary »

Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Michael Chapin, Eilene Janssen, James Bell, Hugh O'Brian

Votes: 31

39. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Family, Horror

Two bumbling private eyes help a man, wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible, to clear his name.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild, Arthur Franz

Votes: 6,092 | Gross: $3.38M

40. Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)

Approved | 87 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Hoping to impress a beautiful senorita, an American visiting Mexico trains with a famous Mexican bullfighter and becomes a competing bullfighter himself.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Robert Stack, Joy Page, Gilbert Roland, Virginia Grey

Votes: 677

41. Call Me Mister (1951)

Approved | 96 min | Musical, Romance

A G.I. in occupied Japan tries to re-woo his old love, who's putting on a show for the troops.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny Thomas, Dale Robertson

Votes: 279 | Gross: $2.70M

42. Callaway Went Thataway (1951)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Western

Two marketing professionals hire a lookalike of classic Western actor Smoky Callaway to impersonate the actor and make new films, but things go awry when the real Callaway, thought long missing, returns.

Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel, Jesse White

Votes: 758

43. Canyon Raiders (1951)

Approved | 54 min | Western

Sam Wellman (I. Stanford Jolley), Lou Banks (Riley Hill) and Jack Marlin (Marshall Reed) have stolen horses from ranchers and have them corralled in Baxter Canyon, hoping to sell them at ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight, Jim Bannon, Phyllis Coates

Votes: 58

44. Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951)

Approved | 287 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

Space hero Captain Video battles the evil Vultura on the planet Atoma.

Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Stars: Judd Holdren, Larry Stewart, George Eldredge, Gene Roth

Votes: 140

45. Casa Manana (1951)

Approved | 73 min | Music, Romance

Linda Mason, secretary to advertising executive Horace Fairchild III, has theatrical aspirations, and unknown to her boss, she enters a radio talent contest. The contest is the brainchild ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Virginia Welles, Robert Clarke, Robert Karnes, Tony Roux

46. Cattle Drive (1951)

Approved | 77 min | Western

A cowboy finds the spoiled son of a railroad magnate lost in the deserted hills and teaches him survival skills and hard work values.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills, Leon Ames

Votes: 767

47. Cattle Queen (1951)

Passed | 72 min | Western

When Queenie Hart brings her cattle to a lawless town be sold, town boss Drake gets the Cattle Inspector to declare them infected. To fight back, Queenie's foreman Bill gets the Warden to ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Maria Hart, Drake Smith, William Fawcett, Robert Gardett

Votes: 35

48. Cause for Alarm! (1951)

Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An invalid husband (Barry Sullivan) wrongly believes his wife (Loretta Young) and doctor (Bruce Cowling) are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling, Margalo Gillmore

Votes: 2,644

49. Cavalry Scout (1951)

Approved | 78 min | Western

After 3 Gatling Guns are stolen from a Montana army arsenal, a Cavalry scout is dispatched there to retrieve them before the thieves can sell them to the Indians.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Rod Cameron, Audrey Long, Jim Davis, James Millican

Votes: 172

50. Cave of Outlaws (1951)

Passed | 76 min | Western

Released after serving 15 years in prison for train robbery Pete Carver being the only survivor of the gang goes looking for the loot in the caves where it was hidden.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Alexis Smith, Edgar Buchanan, Victor Jory

Votes: 387

51. Chain of Circumstance (1951)

Approved | 68 min | Drama

Dell and Tom Dawson is a young married couple beset with woe. They lose their baby and have extreme difficulty adopting another. Both end up accused of stealing a baby. Dell and Tom are ... See full summary »

Director: Will Jason | Stars: Richard Grayson, Margaret Field, Marta Mitrovich, Harold J. Kennedy

52. Chicago Calling (1951)

75 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

A poor father makes monumental efforts to get money to keep his phone installed, so he can get word on his critically injured little daughter.

Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: Dan Duryea, Mary Anderson, Gordon Gebert, Ross Elliott

Votes: 339

53. China Corsair (1951)

76 min | Adventure

In 'The Green Dragon' gambling club, operated by Hu Chang (Ernest Borgnine), a merchant marine, McMillen (Jon Hall), bets the last of his money. He is cheated out of his winnings. He gets a... See full summary »

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Jon Hall, Lisa Ferraday, Ron Randell, Douglas Kennedy

Votes: 57

54. Close to My Heart (1951)

Approved | 90 min | Drama

A columnist and his wife deal with obstacles when they try to adopt an abandoned baby.

Director: William Keighley | Stars: Ray Milland, Gene Tierney, Fay Bainter, Howard St. John

Votes: 542

55. Colorado Ambush (1951)

Approved | 52 min | Western

When three pinto-riding Wells Fargo messengers are killed, Ranger Johnny is sent, incognito, to Booneville to investigate. He is welcomed by Sheriff Ed Lowery, Wells Fargo agent Ben ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Myron Healey, Lois Hall, Tommy Farrell

Votes: 31

56. Come Fill the Cup (1951)

113 min | Crime, Drama

Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering ... See full summary »

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Raymond Massey, James Gleason

Votes: 546

57. Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)

77 min | Comedy, Musical

Bud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies, witches and love potions.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dorothy Shay, Kirby Grant

Votes: 1,454

58. Corky of Gasoline Alley (1951)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy

Elwood Martin (Gordon Jones), a brash extrovert with an aversion to work come to live with Walt Wallet (Don Beddoe) and his wife, Phyllis (Madelon Baker). He blunders about their house, and... See full summary »

Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Scotty Beckett, Jimmy Lydon, Don Beddoe, Gordon Jones

Votes: 67

59. Crazy Over Horses (1951)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy

The boys get mixed up with a race horse and crooked gamblers.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Ted de Corsia, Allen Jenkins

Votes: 290

60. Criminal Lawyer (1951)

Approved | 74 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Alcoholic lawyer sobers up to defend friend in murder case.

Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Jane Wyatt, Carl Benton Reid, Mary Castle

Votes: 129

61. Crosswinds (1951)

Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller

Adventurer tries to recover gold from sunken plane.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Forrest Tucker, Alan Mowbray

Votes: 216

62. Cry Danger (1951)

Passed | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Ex-con Rocky Mulloy seeks the real culprit in the crime for which he was framed in a night world of deceptive dames and double crosses.

Directors: Robert Parrish, Dick Powell | Stars: Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman, William Conrad

Votes: 2,735

63. Cuban Fireball (1951)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Estelita is an entertainer in a Cuban cigar-factory and gets into trouble for mimicking her employer, but is fawned over after she inherits $20,000,000. On her way to Los Angelese to ... See full summary »

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Estelita Rodriguez, Warren Douglas, Mimi Aguglia, Leon Belasco

Votes: 22

64. Cyclone Fury (1951)

Passed | 53 min | Drama, Music, Western

Johnny is a young Indian boy who falls heir to thousands of wild horses when his adoptive white father is murdered by henchmen of the town's leading citizen, Grat Hanlon. With the aid of ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Charles Starrett, Fred F. Sears, Clayton Moore, Robert J. Wilke

Votes: 75

65. Danger Zone (1951)

Approved | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Claire Underwood hires San Francisco private-detective Dennis O'Brien to purchase a saxophone case at an auction, and O'Brien is promptly slugged and the case is stolen by Larry Dunlap. ... See full summary »

Director: William Berke | Stars: Hugh Beaumont, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis, Tom Neal

Votes: 141

66. Darling, How Could You! (1951)

Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

When an imaginative girl has fantasies that her mother is having an affair, her visions almost ruin her parents domestic life. Based on the play "Alice Sit By The Fire" by James M. Barrie.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Joan Fontaine, John Lund, Mona Freeman, Peter Hansen

Votes: 287

67. David and Bathsheba (1951)

Approved | 116 min | Drama, Family, History

After King David sees the beautiful Bathsheba bathing from the palace roof, he enters into an adulterous affair which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore

Votes: 2,648

68. Dear Brat (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance

Woman gets involved with a crook trying to reform.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Mona Freeman, Billy De Wolfe, Edward Arnold, Lyle Bettger

Votes: 170

69. Death of a Salesman (1951)

115 min | Drama

An over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.

Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Fredric March, Mildred Dunnock, Kevin McCarthy, Cameron Mitchell

Votes: 1,193

70. Decision Before Dawn (1951)

Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, War

As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegard Knef

Votes: 2,993

71. Desert of Lost Men (1951)

Passed | 54 min | Western

Landers and gang are after money intended for a new hospital. Lane and the Sheriff have a plan to trap them. But Landers hears of it and Lane is captured and the Sheriff's posse diverted. ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Allan Lane, Black Jack, Irving Bacon, Mary Ellen Kay

Votes: 50

72. Detective Story (1951)

Approved | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

78 Metascore

On one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell

Votes: 9,484

73. Disc Jockey (1951)

Passed | 77 min | Music

A radio disc jockey is about to lose his program's sponsor because the sponsor believes that television viewing is cutting down the size of the listening audience for radio programs, and ... See full summary »

Director: Will Jason | Stars: Ginny Simms, Tom Drake, Jane Nigh, Michael O'Shea

74. Distant Drums (1951)

Approved | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon, Richard Webb, Ray Teal

Votes: 2,367

76. Double Crossbones (1951)

Approved | 76 min | Adventure

After being falsely accused of dishonesty, a young man decides to become a pirate.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Helena Carter, Will Geer, John Emery

Votes: 361

77. Double Dynamite (1951)

Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, Frank Sinatra, Don McGuire

Votes: 1,291

78. Drums in the Deep South (1951)

Passed | 87 min | Western

Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.

Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: James Craig, Barbara Payton, Guy Madison, Barton MacLane

Votes: 429

79. Elephant Stampede (1951)

Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Elephant poachers Joe Collins and Bob Warren plan to steal a load of ivory which the natives want to give to the missionary, Miss Banks, but Bomba the Jungle Boy calls on friendly elephants to trample them to death.

Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Johnny Sheffield, Donna Martell, John Kellogg, Myron Healey

Votes: 184

80. Elopement (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy

Industrial designer Howard Osborne (Clifton Webb) wants his daughter Jacqueline (Anne Francis), shortened to Jake by her efficient-minded father, to follow in his footsteps and study abroad... See full summary »

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Clifton Webb, Anne Francis, Charles Bickford, William Lundigan

Votes: 193

81. Excuse My Dust (1951)

G | 82 min | Comedy, Musical

Joe, an inventor in an American small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", and only his... See full summary »

Directors: Roy Rowland, Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Red Skelton, Sally Forrest, Macdonald Carey, William Demarest

Votes: 404

82. F.B.I. Girl (1951)

Approved | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A governor planning to run for U.S. Senate has a secret past that could prove damaging to his political aspirations: he's a convicted murderer, and that will come to light if the FBI does ... See full summary »

Director: William Berke | Stars: Cesar Romero, George Brent, Audrey Totter, Tom Drake

Votes: 319

83. Father Takes the Air (1951)

Passed | 61 min | Comedy

This entry in Monogram's "Latham Family Series" finds Barbara Latham (M'liss McClure), the daughter of Henry Latham (Raymond Walburn),taking temporary charge of a small flying-school, which... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Raymond Walburn, Walter Catlett, Gary Gray, Florence Bates

Votes: 17

84. Father's Little Dividend (1951)

Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Shortly after coming to terms with his daughter's marriage, a father faces the prospect of becoming a grandfather.

Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor

Votes: 4,292 | Gross: $6.81M

85. Fighting Coast Guard (1951)

Approved | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, Ella Raines, John Russell

Votes: 126

86. Finders Keepers (1951)

Approved | 74 min | Comedy

The amusing story of a young child, who, after playing outside, goes back into the house with - literally - a truckload of money, the spoils of a robbers' heist....

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Tom Ewell, Julie Adams, Evelyn Varden, Dusty Henley

Votes: 35

87. Fingerprints Don't Lie (1951)

Passed | 57 min | Drama

The killing of Mayor Palmer is being placed on Paul Moody by fingerprint expert Jim Stover as Moody's prints were found on the murder weapon. When reporter Brad Evans places doubt in ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Richard Travis, Sheila Ryan, Sid Melton, Tom Neal

Votes: 201

88. Five (1951)

Approved | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk.

Director: Arch Oboler | Stars: William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubes, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin

Votes: 1,565

89. Flame of Araby (1951)

Approved | 77 min | Adventure

An Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Jeff Chandler, Maxwell Reed, Lon Chaney Jr.

Votes: 339

90. Fixed Bayonets! (1951)

Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Drama, War

The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea, Richard Hylton

Votes: 2,113

91. Flame of Stamboul (1951)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A gang of thieves in Istanbul, led by a mastermind criminal known as "The Voice", are planning to steal defense plans important to the protection of the Suez Canal during a peace conference... See full summary »

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Richard Denning, Lisa Ferraday, Norman Lloyd, Nestor Paiva

Votes: 67

92. Flight to Mars (1951)

Passed | 72 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Five astronauts successfully fly to Mars where they encounter seemingly friendly and advanced inhabitants who harbor covert plans to use their ship to invade Earth.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz, Virginia Huston

Votes: 1,338

93. Flying Leathernecks (1951)

Approved | 102 min | Action, Drama, War

75 Metascore

Major Kirby leads The Wildcats squadron into the historic WWII battle of Guadalcanal.

Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor, Janis Carter

Votes: 5,519

94. Follow the Sun (1951)

93 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The inspiring film biography of the courageous champion golfer Ben Hogan.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Glenn Ford, Anne Baxter, Dennis O'Keefe, June Havoc

Votes: 451

95. Footlight Varieties (1951)

Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music

A compilation of scenes and acts from various comedy and musical shorts over the years.

Directors: D.W. Griffith, Benjamin Stoloff, Hal Yates | Stars: Jack Paar, Leon Errol, The Sportsmen Quartet, Bill Days

Votes: 60

96. Force of Arms (1951)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, War

During World War II in Italy, an American sergeant and WAC lieutenant take time out for romance.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: William Holden, Nancy Olson, Frank Lovejoy, Gene Evans

Votes: 692

97. Fort Defiance (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Western

A former Civil War solider bent on killing the man whose surrender got his brother killed, later finds out a rancher wants that same man and his blind brother killed.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Dane Clark, Ben Johnson, Peter Graves, Tracey Roberts

Votes: 498

98. Fort Dodge Stampede (1951)

Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western

Outlaws took $30,000 from the Adams Bank, but one of them double crossed everyone and hid the money in old Fort Dodge, Nevada. As old Fort Dodge is out of his jurisdiction, Rocky takes a ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Allan Lane, Black Jack, Chubby Johnson, Mary Ellen Kay

Votes: 45

99. Fort Savage Raiders (1951)

Approved | 54 min | Drama, Western

Steve Drake/The Durango Kid is commissioned by the Army to track down a band of desperado's who have escaped from the stockade at Fort Savage. The gang is led by ex-army Captain Craydon who... See full summary »

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, John Dehner, Trevor Bardette

Votes: 28

100. Fort Worth (1951)

Approved | 80 min | Western

Civil War veteran and former newspaperman Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the war is over and finds himself fighting an old friend who's grown ambitious.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Randolph Scott, David Brian, Phyllis Thaxter, Helena Carter

Votes: 808



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