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Johnny Farlig (English; Dangerous Youth) is a 1953 Danish crime drama directed by Lau Lauritzen Jr. and starring Ib Mossin and Birgitte Bruun. The film tells the dark story about a naive youth being drawn into a life of petty crime and unable to break away. The film received the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film in 1954.
The following is a list of American films released in 1953. Donald O'Connor and Fredric March cohosted the 26th Academy Awards ceremony on March 25, 1954, held at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood .
April 8, 1953: Call Me Madam: Call Me Madam reached number one in its fifth week of release. [13] 15: April 15, 1953: Salome: Salome reached number one in its third week of release. [14] 16: April 22, 1953 [15] 17: April 29, 1953: House of Wax [16] 18: May 6, 1953: House of Wax grossed $690,000 from 20 key cities. [17] 19: May 13, 1953: House ...
BOAC Flight 783 broke up in midair and crashed near Calcutta, India, killing all 43 people aboard. [5]Hussein was crowned King of Jordan.On the same day, Faisal II, Hussein's cousin, assumed his constitutional powers as King of Iraq.
Eagle of the Pacific (太平洋の鷲, Taiheiyo no washi), also known as Operation Kamikaze, [2] is a 1953 Japanese epic war film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film dramatizes the start of Japan's military action in World War II, with an emphasis on the role of Isoroku Yamamoto .
Ugetsu (雨月物語, Ugetsu Monogatari, lit."Rain-moon tales") [3] is a 1953 Japanese period fantasy film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō.It is based on the stories "The House in the Thicket" and "The Lust of the White Serpent" from Ueda Akinari's 1776 book Ugetsu Monogatari, combining elements of the jidaigeki (period drama) genre with a ghost story.
All I Desire is a 1953 American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, Marcia Henderson, Lori Nelson, and Maureen O'Sullivan. It is based on Carol Ryrie Brink 's 1951 novel Stopover .
TV Guide wrote that the film "boasts good performances from Rains, Toren, and Lom, but is hampered by the static direction of Harold French"; [5] whereas Culture Catch called it a "solid adaptation," which "embraces Simenon's favorite archetype, an innocent who mistakenly thinks he has committed some evil act, and then eventually actually does...Directed by Harold French, a British stalwart ...