Top 10 Action Movies of 1952
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1. Bend of the River (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a town boss confiscates homesteaders' supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams
Votes: 9,905
2. One Minute to Zero (1952)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, War
During the early days of the Korean War, U.S. Army colonel Steve Janowski is one of the military advisers training the South Korean army and he's tasked with evacuating American civilians from the war zone.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ann Blyth, William Talman, Charles McGraw
Votes: 834
3. Retreat, Hell! (1952)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, War
The saga of a battalion of U.S. Marines during the Korean War, starting with their training, landing at Inchon in 1950, advance into North Korea and their subsequent retreat back to the 38th parallel.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Richard Carlson, Anita Louise, Russ Tamblyn
Votes: 543
4. Red Ball Express (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Action, Drama, War
Story of the military truck drivers who kept the Allied armies supplied in Europe during World War II.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake, Judith Braun
Votes: 811
5. What Price Glory (1952)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The wartime romantic misadventures of Captain Flagg, commander of a company of US Marines in 1918 France.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, Dan Dailey, William Demarest
Votes: 1,446
6. Thunderbirds (1952)
Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: John Derek, John Drew Barrymore, Mona Freeman, Gene Evans
Votes: 126
7. Mutiny (1952)
Approved | 77 min | Adventure, History
During the War of 1812, the U.S. tasks Captain James Marshall to sail through the British blockade and bring back a French loan in gold but the secret leaks out and many greedy hands, including the mutinous crew's, are after the gold.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Mark Stevens, Angela Lansbury, Patric Knowles, Gene Evans
Votes: 510
8. Above and Beyond (1952)
Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama, War
Col. Paul Tibbets piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II.
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating
Votes: 1,342
9. Glory at Sea (1952)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1940, the Captain of an old Royal Navy destroyer struggles with his crew, as well as the Nazis.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts, James Donald
Votes: 757
10. The Savage (1952)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A white boy raised by the Sioux must choose sides when the Sioux threaten to go to war against the Whites.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow, Peter Hansen, Joan Taylor
Votes: 682
11. Flat Top (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, War
During the Korean War, aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, Navy Commander Dan Collier reminisces about his first assignment on the same aircraft carrier in the war against Japan.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, William Phipps, John Bromfield
Votes: 542
12. The Cimarron Kid (1952)
Passed | 84 min | Western
Unjustly accused of robbing the train he was riding home, Bill Doolin re-joins his old gang, participates in other robberies and becomes a wanted outlaw.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Audie Murphy, Beverly Tyler, James Best, Yvette Duguay
Votes: 1,146
13. The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)
Approved | 77 min | Western
Marshal Tyrone and the Silver Kid form an uneasy alliance against a gang of claim jumpers.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Audie Murphy, Faith Domergue, Stephen McNally, Susan Cabot
Votes: 1,900
14. Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952)
Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Jungle Jim is forced to lead anthropologist Dr. Edwards into a land inhabited by giant people.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Angela Greene, Jean Willes, Lester Matthews
Votes: 364
15. Voodoo Tiger (1952)
Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Family
Jungle Jim helps an attractive research writer for the British museum clear up the mystery of a tiger cult in Africa while thwarting art thieves and bringing to justice a Nazi war criminal.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Jean Byron, James Seay, Jean Dean
Votes: 277
16. Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure
Tarzan acts as a guide for two British government agents recently arrived in Africa to secure a great cache of diamonds for the English military. However, the agents are not what they seem.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Lex Barker, Dorothy Hart, Patric Knowles, Charles Korvin
Votes: 523
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