1952 Poll 2.0

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Choose your favourite films from 1952 (according to IMDB).

Each person can vote for up to 20 films. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number.

Twenty-film ballots can be formatted as follows:
- Five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier
- Four tiers of five films each, 5/5/5/5; scored 4.5-3.5-2.5-1.5 pts/film/tier
- Two tiers of ten films each, 10/10; scored 4-2 pts/film/tier
- No tiers, unranked; scored 3 pts/film
- A 20-film three-tier ballot is not possible

A tiered ballot can include less than 20 films, but in that case the total number of films must still be able to be factored by the number of tiers, so:
- A five tier ballot can include only 20, 15, 10, or 5 films
- A four tier ballot can include only 20, 16, 12, 8, or 4 films
- A three tier ballot (scored 5-3-1) can include only 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, or 3 films
- A two tier ballot can include only 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, or 2 films
- Ballots that are 19, 17, 13, 11, 7 or 1 films must be no tiers

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible, so that others can use them for recommendations. You may revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Deadline for 1952 ballots will be Saturday, September 30th at roughly midnight EDT.

[greennui]

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie 1952 Directed by Henry King
Lightning 1952 ‘稲妻’ Directed by Mikio Naruse
Lily of the Harbor 1952 ‘Η Αγνή Του Λιμανιού’ Directed by Yorgos Tzavellas
Roses Bloom on the Moorland 1952 ‘Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab’ Directed by Hans H. König
The Importance of Being Earnest 1952 Directed by Anthony Asquith

The White Reindeer 1952 ‘Valkoinen peura’ Directed by Erik Blomberg
The Witch 1952 ‘Noita palaa elämään’ Directed by Roland af Hällström
A Portrait of Ga 1952 Directed by Margaret Tait
Panta Rhei 1952 Directed by Bert Haanstra
Loguivy-de-la-Mer 1952 Directed by Pierre Gout

Scaramouche 1952 Directed by George Sidney
The Sniper 1952 Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Way of a Gaucho 1952 Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Nights on the Road 1952 ‘Nachts auf den Straßen’ Directed by Rudolf Jugert, Fritz Stapenhorst
Singin’ in the Rain 1952 Directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

[flip]

Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
The Thief (Russell Rouse)
The Turning Point (William Dieterle)
The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)

Assignment: Paris (Robert Parrish)
5 Fingers (Joseph Mankiewicz)
The Big Sky (Howard Hawks)
Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson)

The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)
Beware, My Lovely (Harry Horner)
The Crimson Pirate (Robert Siodmak)
The Card (Ronald Neame)

Angel Face (Otto Preminger)
Diplomatic Courier (Henry Hathaway)
Bend of the River (Anthony Mann)
Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang)

Sudden Fear (David Miller)
My Cousin Rachel (Henry Koster)
Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
Hellgate (Charles Marquis Warren)

[rischka]

il boia di lilla
the golden coach
way of a gaucho
una donna ha ucciso
lightning
the big sky
sudden fear
the duel at silver creek
the quiet man
the white reindeer
dont bother to knock
flamenco
the sniper
scaramouche
subida al cielo
the narrow margin
my son john
singin in the rain
return of the texan
bend of the river

i've started rewatching with the big sky ♥

[wba]

Limelight (Charles Chaplin, USA)
Illusion in Moll "Illusion in a Minor Key" (Rudolf Jugert, West Germany)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, Italy)
Bis wir uns wiedersehn "Until we meet again" (Gustav Ucicky, West Germany)

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (Ken Annakin, USA/UK)
Ivanhoe (Richard Thorpe, USA)
Haus des Lebens "House of Life" (Karl Hartl, West Germany)
Angel Face (Otto Preminger, USA)

Scaramouche (George Sidney, USA)
Cuba Cabana (Fritz Peter Buch, West Germany)
Alraune "Mandragore" (Arthur Maria Rabenalt, West Germany)
The Crimson Pirate (Robert Siodmak, USA/UK)

High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, USA)
Toxi (Robert Adolf Stemmle, West Germany)
Against All Flags (George Sherman, USA)
Le Plaisir "Pleasure" (Max Ophüls, France)

Bend of the River (Anthony Mann, USA)
The Two Mouseketeers (Joseph Barbera/William Hanna, USA)
Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab "Roses Bloom on the Grave in the Meadow" (Hans H. König, West Germany)
Hiawatha (Kurt Neumann, USA)

[sally]

hmmm... not many favourites this year

in the storm - vatroslav mimica
lily of the harbor - yorgos tzavellas
nazaré - manuel guimarães
il boia di lilla - vittorio cottafavi
a woman has killed - vittorio cottafavi
the witch - roland af hällström
the white reindeer - erik blomberg
the overcoat - alberto lattuada
the duel at silver creek - don siegel
subida al cielo - luis buñuel
way of a gaucho - jacques tourneur
a portrait of ga - margaret tait
rancho notorious - fritz lang
the golden coach - jean renoir
the quiet man - john ford
the life of oharu - kenji mizoguchi

[sally]

oh, don't suppose the guru dutt has appeared somewhere in nice quality???? anyone found a decent version?

[nrh]

the one on kg has an annoying watermark but it is more than watchable, had it at one point but old hard drive died and still haven't figured out the torrenting kinks in the new apartment. it's frustrating that so much is missing but it's a very interesting movie.

the other two i liked from '52, k.a. abbas (most famous as raj kapoor's screenwriter but an interesting writer/director in his own right) strange dual nargis role melodrama anhonee and mehboob khan's full color ruritanian swashbuckler aan are both on youtube in great prints from the tommydan youtube channel.

[rischka]

i can get it. didn't even know about this one

edit: added to resources

[rischka]

the witch movie! will i have two finnish horror movies in my '52 list? it's possible.

i'll prefer to regard the last 5 minutes as weirdly charming

[karl]

contenders:

mother (naruse)
lightning (naruse)
okuni and gohei (naruse)
umberto d. (de sica)
"slimelight" (chaplin)
carmen's innocent love (kinoshita)
two cents' worth of hope (castellani)
way of a gaucho (tournier)
wait till the sun shines, nellie (king)
ikiru (kurosawa)
the flavor of green tea over rice (ozu)
don camilo (duvivier)
la fête à henriette (duvivier)
the quiet man (ford)
le plaisir (ophüls)
night falls (gavaldón)
les belles de nuit (clair)
the bad and the beautiful (minnelli)
the big sky (hawks)
the lusty men (ray)
the golden coach (renoir)
angel face (preminger)
europa '51 (rossellini)
the bandit of tacca del lupo (germi)
children of hiroshima (shindo)
life of oharu (mizoguchi)
clash by night (lang)
high noon (zinnemann)
the narrow margin (fleischer)
5 fingers (mankiewicz)
rome, 11:00 (de santis)
forbidden games (clement)
singin' in the rain (donen & kelly) (one of the few musicals i can stand)
casque d'or (becker)
return of the texan (daves)
bend of the river (mann)

[rischka]

anhonee was a blast loved the dueling nargises (nargii?)

[St. Gloede]

High Noon (1952, Fred Zinneman)
Saikaku ichidai onna / Life of Oharu (1952, Kenji Mizoguchi)
Viva Zapata! (1952, Elia Kazan)
Limelight (1952, Charles Chaplin)

Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa)
Umberto D. (1952, Vittorio De Sica)
Moulin Rouge (1952, John Huston)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Vincente Minnelli)

The Big Sky (1952, Howard Hawks)
Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen)
5 Fingers (1952, Joseph Mankiewich)
Le plaisir (1952, Max Ophüls)

The Lusty Men (1952, Nicholas Ray)
Jeux interdits / Forbidden Games (1952)
Clash by Night (1952, Fritz Lang)
Bend of the River (1952, Anthony Mann)

Sengoku burai / Sword for Hire (1952, Hiroshi Inagaki)
Inazuma / Lightning (1952, Mikio Naruse)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952, Anthony Asquith)
La presidentessa / Mademoiselle Gobete (1952, Pietro Germi)


Honourable mentions:

La fête à Henriette / Holiday for Henrietta (1952, Julien Duvivier)
Les belles de nuit / Beauties of the Night (1952, René Clair)
Wienerinnen (1952, Kurt Steinwendner)
Nazaré (1952, Manuel Guimarães)
Poklad Ptacího ostrova / A Treasure on Bird Island (1952, Karel Zeman)
Scaramouche (1952)
Subida al cielo / Mexian Bus Ride (1952, Luis Buñuel)
Kvinnors väntan / Waiting Women (1952, Ingmar Bergman)
The Quiet Man (1952, John Ford)
Kansas City Confidential (1952, Phil Karlson)

Okaasan / Mother (1952, Mikio Naruse)
The Sound Barrier (1952, David Lean)
Roma, ore 11 / Rome 11:00 (1952, Giuseppe De Santis)
Il brigante di Tacca del Lupo / The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo (1952, Pietro Germi)
Springfield Rifle (1952, André De Toth)
Musuko no seishun / Youth of the Son (1952, Masaki Kobayashi)
Way of a Gaucho (1952, Jacques Tourneur)
The World in His Arms (1952, Raoul Walsh)
Carrie (1952, William Wyler)
Lo Sceicco bianco / The White Sheik (1952, Federico Fellini)

[rischka]

aan is a lot of fun, the print is beautiful and dilip kumar reminds me of srk here! great swashbuckling THX NRH and tommydan ♥

i do wish they'd translate song lyrics consistently in these old films but the score is wonderful too

according to imdb this was the first indian film in color and mehboob khan recieved high praise from legendary epic director cecil b demille

edit: ok part of the srk thing may be trying to force himself on a woman, in this case a jodhpur wearing princess with a whip the story is a hot mess but wow the sets.









k I have to finish the film now :p

AND WTF WITH THE UTTERLY BIZARRE DREAM SEQUENCE THIS MOVIE HAS THE WEIRDEST ENERGY

in both films there's a strong class leveling theme - propaganda against the caste system outlawed a few years earlier?

aan even derives bdsm sexual tension from it. definitely an EXPERIENCE however women often don't enjoy being compared to animals thx

[nrh]

mehboob khan's gender politics are usually thorny in a productive way (though mother india and its earlier version aurat do that woman as metaphor for the nation thing that sally hates) but ann is just...deeply strange?

have read for years about the english version ("the savage princess") and its reception in london, famous story of erol flynn trying to kiss nimmi, but i'm not sure if it still exists.

[rischka]

i'm not sorry i watched it! it was wild

[rischka]

there is a version of jaal on youtube w/o subs that adds about 20 mins. still short 50 mins per imdb. what a shame. geeta bali is so darn cute



prayers will only get you so far girlie

[karl]

Not one that's mentioned much, but Joe Losey's Neorealist noir from this year is pretty darned good.

[rischka]

that was good, ty karl

on youtube as 'stranger on the prowl'

noir double feature



everyone's favorite bad romance is back in 'affair in trinidad'! i don't know who vincent sherman is but i guess i've seen several of his films. this isn't bad if you like Rita and the plot of notorious

i'm thinking of doing le plaisir and carrosse d'or rewatches back to back but that might be too much


edit: should've taken Evelyn's advice re: Bela lugosi meets a Brooklyn gorilla i gave it 20 mins and didn't even see bela. new respect for dean martin tho

[rischka]

Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab... bad fairytale magic. i'll save a spot for it. incensed that women were/are treated this way but

Spoiler!

at least they let her live??

[niminy-piminy]

(imdb 1952)
https://youtu.be/FLVGUpWB5yI?si=QHpkuBFackW7-mmd

https://youtu.be/nks6X_FUWHg?si=mpAnbZiSotL4peS2

[niminy-piminy]

two essential architectural essays of the 1952 screen...

dream house & longing for private space
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ychra

urban development & urban alienation
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6g0ilh

[Lencho of the Apes]

This was interesting, neo-reo vibe without ever ceasing to be "Hollywood" (maybe by way of the Actor's Studio). Indie effort that's hugely investing in giving representation to Mex/Amer experience, so hard to fault it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW0g7I6y1eA

[rischka]

pagnol's manon des sources is quite lovely. much funnier than the remake as i remember it

it's almost 4 hrs but it flew by. i made the mistake of checking if the lead was pagnol's daughter. it wasn't



she did however grow up tending goats in camargue and inspired this film

[rischka]

penalosa forever in our hearts ♥ why is this the only film where rory calhoun is hot. or even memorable

[wba]

penalosa forever in our hearts ♥ why is this the only film where rory calhoun is hot. or even memorable

Rory Calhoun is always hot and always memorable. One of the great actors of his generation.

[sally]

Loguivy-de-la-Mer 1952 Directed by Pierre Gout

how did you see this greennui? with subtitles?

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

why is this the only film where rory calhoun is hot.

Dawn at Socorro!

[rischka]

why is this the only film where rory calhoun is hot.

Dawn at Socorro!

ok i can't deny he's hot there but i have no memory of watching this and lb says i did

i also watched la guerra gaucha from 1942. a good yarn. didn't see anyone standing on their horse

[nrh]

ok i can't deny he's hot there but i have no memory of watching this and lb says i did

rewatch needed then! evelyn's recs are almost always on point but this one became an instant favorite