Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1952

1. April 2000 – Wolfgang Liebeneiner

24 Hours of a Woman’s Life – Victor Saville

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd – Charles Lamont

Above and Beyond – Melvin Frank / Norman Panama

Affair in Trinidad – Vincent Sherman

Against All Flags – George Sherman

Alraune – Arthur Maria Rabenalt

Andrine og Kjell – Kare Bergstrom

Androcles and the Lion – Chester Erskine

Anfles One Five – George More O’Ferrall

Appointment in London – Philip Leacock

The Atomic City – Jerry Hopper

At Sword’s Point – Lewis Allen The Beast Must Die (La Bestia debe morir) – Roman Vinoly Barreto

Because of You – Joseph Pevney

Because You’re Mine – Alexander Hall

The Belle of New York – Charles Walters

Beauties of the Night (Les Bellesde nuit) – Rene Clair

Belles on Their Toes – Henry Levin

Big Jim McLain – Edward Ludwig

The Big Sky – Howard Hawks

The Big Trees – Felix E. Feist

The Black Castle – Nathan H. Juran

Blackbeard the Pirate – Raoul Walsh

Brandy for the Parson – John Eldridge

Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory – Bernard B. Ray

California Conquest – Lew Landers

Captive Woman – Stuart Gilmore

The Card – Ronald Neame

Carrie – William Wyler

Carson City – Andre De Toth

Casque d’or (Golden Helmet) – Jacues Becker

Children of Hiroshima – Kaneto Shindo

Ciguli Miguli – Branko Marjanovic

The City Stands Trial (Processo alla citta) – Luigi Zampa

Come Back Little Sheba – Daniel Mann

The Crimson Pirate – Robert Siodmak

Dans la vie tout s’arrange – Marcel Cravenne

Dedication of the Great Buddha – Teinosuke Kinugasa

Denver and Rio Grande – Byron Haskin

Derby Day – Herbert Wilcox

Desperate Search – Joseph H. Lewis

Diplomatic Courier – Henry Hathaway

Don Camillo – Julien Duvivier

Down Among the Z Men – Maclean Rogers

Dreamboat – Claude Binyon

Europa ’51 – Robert Rossellini

The Eyes Leave Tracks (Los ojos dejan huella) – Jose Luis Saena de Heredia

Face to Face – John Brahm / Bretaigne Windust

Fanfan la Tulipe – Christian-Jaques

Flamenco (Duende y misterio del flamenco) – Edgar Neville

Flaming Feather – Ray Enright

The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice – Yasujiro Ozu

Flesh and Fury – Joseph Pevney

The Garden Spider (Epeira Diadema) – Alberto Ancilotto

Gendai-jin – Minoru Shibuya

The Gentle Gunman – Basil Dearden

Gift Horse – Compton Bennett

A Girls in Every Port – Chester Erskine

The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d’or) – Jean Renoir

The Greatest Show on Earth – C. B. DeMille

Hangman’s Knot – Roy Huggins

The Happy Family – Muriel Box

The Happy Time – Richard Fleischer

Has Anybody Seen My Gal? – Douglas Sirk

Hellgate – Charles Marquis Warren

Hiawatha – Kurt Neumann

Home at Seven – Ralph Richardson

Horizons West – Budd Boetticher

Hunted – Charles Crichton

The I Don’t Care Girl – Lloyd Bacon

The Importance of Being Earnest – Anthony Asquith

Indian Uprising – Ray Nazarro

It Grows on Trees – Arthur Lubin

Ivanhoe – Richard Thorpe

Jaal – Guru Dutt

Jack and the Beanstalk – Jean Yarbrough

Japanese War Bride – King Vidor

The Jazz Singer – Michael Curtiz

Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair – Mario Soldati

Jumping Jacks – Norman Taurog

Kansas City Confidencial – Phil Karlson

Kid Monk Baroni – Harold D. Schuster

The Last Page – Terence Fisher

The Life of Oharu – Kenji Mizoguchi

Lightning (Inzuma) – Mikio Naruse

Limelight – Charles Chaplin

Lone Star – Vincent Sherman

Lost in Alaska – Jean Yarbrough

Lovely to Look At – Mervyn LeRoy

Lure of the Wilderness – Jean Negulesco

Man in the Sotrm (Arashi no naka haha) – Kiyoshi Saeki

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By – Harold French

Mandy – Alexander Mackendrick / Fred Sears

The Marrying Kind – George Cukor

Meet Danny Wilson – Joseph Pevney

The Member of the Wedding – Fred Zinnemann

The Merry Widow – Curtis Bernhardt

Mexican Bus Ride (Subida al cielo) – Luis Bunuel

The Miricle of Our Lady of Fatima – John Brahm

Les Miserables – Lewis Milestone

Montana Belle – Allan Dwan

My Cousin Rachel – Henry Koster

My Pal Gus – Robert Parrish

The Six Convicts – Hugo Fregonese

Neighbours – Norman McLaren

Never Look Back – Francis Searle

No Greater Love (Herz der Welt) – Harald Braun

No Room for the Groom – Douglas Sirk

O. Henry’s Full House – Koster / Hathaway / Negulesco / Hawks / King

On Dangerous Ground – Nicholas Ray

One Minute to Zero – Tay Garnett

Outcast of the Islands – Carol Reed

The Overcoat (Il Cappotto) – Alberto Lattuada

Penny Princes – Val Guest

Phone Call from a Stranger – Jean Negulesco

The Pickwick Papers – Noel Lagley

Le Plaisir – Max Ophuls

The Planter’s Wife – Ken Annakin

Pony Soldier – Joseph M. Newman

The Pride of St. Louis – Harman Jones

The Prisoner of Zenda – Richard Thorpe

Rancho Notorious – Fritz Lang

Red Ball Express – Budd Boetticher

Red Planet Mars – Harry Horner

Retreat, Hell! – Joseph H. Lewis

Return of the Texan – Delmer Daves

The Ringer – Guy Hamilton

Road to Bali – Hal Walker

Road 11:00 (Roma ore 11) – Giuseppe De Santis

Ruby Gentry – King Vidor

Sailor Beware – Hal Walker

Sangdil – RC Talwar

Saturday Island – Stuart Heisler

The Savarge – George Marshall

Scandal Sheet – Phil Karlson

Scaramouche – George Sidney

The Scarles Flower (Alenkiy tsvetochek) – Lev Atamanov

Secrets of Woman – Ingmar Bergman

The Secret People – Thorod Dickinson

Siempre tuya (Forever Yours) – Emilio Fernandez

The Sniper – Edward Dmytryk

The Snows of Kilimanjaro – Henry King

Something to Live For – George Stevens

Son of Paleface – Frank Tashlin

Song of the Sea (O Canto do Mar) – Alberto Cavalcanti

The Sound Barrier – David Lean

Springfield Rifle – Andre de Toth

The Star – Stuart Heisler

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men – Ken Annakin

Steel Town – George Sherman

The Steel Trap – Andrew L. Stone

The Stooge – Norman Taurog

Stop, You’re Killing Me – Roy Del Ruth

The Story of Will Rogers – Michael Curtiz

Sudden Fear – David Miller

The Thief – Russell Rouse

This Is Cinerama – Merian C. Cooper

Three Women (Trois femmes) – Andre Michel

Thunderbirds – John Derek / John Drew Barrymore

Tico-Tico no Fuba – Adolfo Celi

Toto a colori – Steno

Toxi – Robert A. Stemmle

Trent’s Last Case – Herbert Wilcox

The Turning Point – William Dieterle

Two Cents Worth of Hope (Due soldi di speranza) – Renato Castellani

Umberto D – Vittorio De Sica

Untames Frontier – Hugo Fregonese

Viva Zapata! – Elia Kazan

What Price Glory – John Ford

The White Reindeer – Erik Blomberg

The White Sheik (Lo sceicco bianco) – Frederico Fellini

Who Goes There! – Anthony Kimmins

Wide Boy – Ken Hughes

The Wild North – Andrew Marton

Wings of Danger – Terence Fisher

With a Song in My Heart – Waler Lang

A Woman Without Love (Una mujer sin amor) – Luis Bunuel

Young Man with Ideas – Mitchell Leisen