Favorite Films of 1951
by bertramsharp | created - 11 Jul 2011 | updated - 30 Nov 2021 | PublicUpdated: 11/30/2021
I have watched 14 films with a 1951 release date. I have listed them here ranked from best to worst (in my opinion).
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1. A Christmas Carol (1951)
TV-PG | 86 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns
Votes: 25,727
2. Strangers on a Train (1951)
PG | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A psychopathic man tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 141,052 | Gross: $7.63M
3. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
G | 92 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 85,784
4. The Thing from Another World (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
Directors: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks | Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 33,392
5. Alice in Wonderland (1951)
G | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
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: 154,100 | Gross: $1.07M
6. 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: 1,456
7. 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: 6,098 | Gross: $3.38M
8. The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
A New York City swindler has until Christmas to come up with the $10,000 he owes a gangster, prompting him to go into scamming overdrive.
Directors: Sidney Lanfield, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell
Votes: 2,260
9. Utopia (1950)
82 min | Comedy
Stan inherits a yacht and a South Pacific island. Ollie and Stan sail there with 2 other men. They shipwreck on a new atoll and settle there. An ex-fiancee joins them. They declare an independent nation and problems arise.
Directors: Léo Joannon, John Berry, Alfred J. Goulding, Tim Whelan | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Suzy Delair, Max Elloy
Votes: 2,223
10. Ghost Chasers (1951)
Approved | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Lloyd Corrigan, Lela Bliss
Votes: 494
11. The Harlem Globetrotters (1951)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Sport
Abe Saperstein, owner/manager of the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional basketball team, signs Billy Townsend, an All-American, to play with the "Globetrotters."... See full summary »
Directors: Phil Brown, Will Jason | Stars: Harlem Globetrotters, Thomas Gomez, Dorothy Dandridge, Bill Walker
Votes: 249
12. Jungle Manhunt (1951)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Football player Bob Miller, played by an actual football player, is lost in the jungle. Who else to find him but Jungle Jim.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Robert Waterfield, Sheila Ryan, Rick Vallin
Votes: 391
13. 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
14. Movie Madness (1951)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The talking magpies, Heckle and Jeckle, crash a movie studio driving a papier-mache limousine, and have no problem eluding the studio watchdog by disguising themselves, at various times, as... See full summary »
Director: Connie Rasinski | Star: Dayton Allen
Votes: 26
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