Little Fugitive(Ray Ashley & Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin)
Stalag 17(Billy Wilder)
Roman Holiday(William Wyler)
Sawdust and Tinsel(Ingmar Bergman)
Additional 1953 Films By Rating
The Earrings of Madame de...(Max Ophuls)
I vitelloni(Federico Fellini)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes(Howard Hawks)
Tokyo Story(Yasujiro Ozu)
Mogambo(John Ford)
The Moon Is Blue(Otto Preminger)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday(Jacques Tati)
Ugetsu(Kenji Mizoguchi)
Blowing Wild(Hugo Fregonese)
Genevieve(Henry Cornelius)
Peter Pan(Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson)
Niagara(Henry Hathaway)
Summer With Monika(Ingmar Bergman)
How to Marry a Millionaire(Jean Negulesco)
From Here to Eternity(Fred Zinnemann)
It Came From Outer Space(Jack Arnold)
Terminal Station(Vittorio De Sica)
House of Wax(Andre de Toth)
The Hitch-Hiker(Ida Lupino)
Gate of Hell(Teinosuke Kinugasa)
Bienvenido Mister Marshall(Luis G. Berlanga)
Man in the Dark(Lew Landers)
The Glenn Miller Story(Anthony Mann)
The Stranger Wore a Gun(Andre De Toth)
The Robe(Henry Koster)
The War of the Worlds(Byron Haskin)
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are
marked with if I
currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to
being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit
them and they get a numeral. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are
especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were
in many cases already pretty dusty.)
Seen but currently unrated (and not presumptively
among my top 10):The Band Wagon (Minnelli); The Beast From
20,000 Fathoms (Lourie); Beat the Devil (Huston); The Cruel
Sea (Frend); Glen or Glenda (Wood); I Confess
(Hitchcock); Kiss Me Kate (Sidney); Man on a Tightrope
(Kazan); Miss Sadie Thompson (Bernhardt); Shane (Stevens);
The Wild One (Benedek)
As yet unseen:All I Desire (Sirk)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.