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A Star is Born

A Star is Born (1954) starring Judy Garland, James Mason
A Star is Born (1954) starring Judy Garland, James Mason As a band singer guided to heights of show-business success by an alcoholic ex-matinee idol, Judy Garland performs one superb song after another (most by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin) in a production – also starring James Mason...
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The Atomic Kid

The Atomic Kid (1954) starring Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Elaine Devry
The Atomic Kid (1954) starring Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Elaine Devry The Atomic Kid is a comedy about … surviving an atomic bomb blast? Yes! Surprisingly, it’s very funny!
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Rodan [monster movie]

Rodan (1954) starring Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata
Rodan (1954) starring Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata In Rodan, in the Japanese mining village of Kitamatsu, miners are starting to disappear deep inside shaft number 8. Some of the men sent to investigate are killed but one who has managed to escape brings back a tale of a...
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Creature from the Black Lagoon [Richard Carlson]

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams In Creature from the Black Lagoon, an expedition exploring the Amazon River discover a ‘Gill Man’. A strange, half man and half amphibian. Thought by the team to be the missing link in human evolution, the creature...
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Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Dial M for Murder (1954), starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, by Alfred Hitchcock Synopsis of Dial M for Murder When playboy tennis pro Tony Wendice discovers his rich wife, Margot is having an affair with handsome American Mark Hallidy, he devises an ingenious plot to murder her....
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Demetrius and the Gladiators

Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) starring Victor Mature, Susan Hayward
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) starring Victor Mature, Susan Hayward Synopsis of Demetrius and the Gladiators The story of Demetrius and the Gladiators picks up at the point where The Robe ends. After the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellus, Christ’s robe is conveyed to Peter for safe-keeping. But the emperor Caligula...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters

Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1954) starring Raymond Burr Godzilla, King of the Monsters — the ocean’s surface begins to boil white-hot and a Japanese freighter vanishes into the Pacific.  Then, the superstitious villagers of Odo Island fear an ancient legend has come true–the legend of Godzilla! Steve...
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Woman’s World

Woman's World, (1954) starring Clifton Webb, Lauren Bacall, Fred MacMurray, Cornel Wilde, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Arlene Dahl
Woman’s World, (1954) starring Clifton Webb, Lauren Bacall, Fred MacMurray, Cornel Wilde, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Arlene Dahl Synopsis of Woman’s World In Woman’s World, the chairman of a large automobile maker is left to find a new second in command. Believing that an executive’s wife is crucial to her husband’s success he examines each...
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