Best excellent award winning movies from 1952

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1 High Noon (1952)

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.

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1952-06-09 | Western / Thriller

Cast

Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly

Rating

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #68 for
    Spaghetti Western
  2. Ranked #101 for
    gun-for-hire
  3. Ranked #107 for
    horse opera

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2 Singin' in the Rain (1952)

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

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1952-04-09 | Comedy / Romance

Cast

Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor

Rating

rating icon 8.16
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #69 for
    tuneful
  2. Ranked #72 for
    vaudevillian
  3. Ranked #75 for
    jukebox musical

Trailer

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3 The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

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1952-12-25 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #52 for
    deservedly won awards
  2. Ranked #76 for
    cutthroat
  3. Ranked #95 for
    flashback sequence

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4 The Quiet Man (1952)

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

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1952-07-21 | Romance / Comedy

Cast

John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara

Rating

rating icon 7.292
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #67 for
    punching bag
  2. Ranked #82 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #110 for
    tetchy

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5 The African Queen (1952)

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.

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1952-01-07 | Romance / Adventure

Cast

Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn

Rating

rating icon 7.349
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #34 for
    prissy
  2. Ranked #52 for
    cantankerous
  3. Ranked #53 for
    hard-nosed

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6 Moulin Rouge (1952)

Born into aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec moves to Paris to pursue his art as he hangs out at the Moulin Rouge where he feels like he fits in being a misfit among other misfits. Yet, because of the deformity of his legs from an accident, he believes he is never destined to experience the true love of a woman. But that lack of love in his life may change as he meets two women

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1952-12-23 | Drama

Cast

José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #68 for
    rousing musical score
  2. Ranked #81 for
    raucous
  3. Ranked #82 for
    lugubrious

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7 The Sound Barrier (1952)

Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.

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1952-10-10 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #59 for
    Aerial Combat
  2. Ranked #77 for
    life and limb story
  3. Ranked #124 for
    callow

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8 Viva Zapata! (1952)

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.

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1952-02-07 | History / Drama

Cast

Marlon Brando, Jean Peters

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #98 for
    precise directing
  2. Ranked #224 for
    like a history lesson
  3. Ranked #224 for
    deservedly won Oscars

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9 Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)

A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.

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1952-12-24 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #73 for
    strange twist
  2. Ranked #125 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #128 for
    prosaic

Trailer

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10 5 Fingers (1952)

During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

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1952-02-22 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

James Mason, Danielle Darrieux

Rating

rating icon 7.535
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #44 for
    cocksure
  2. Ranked #56 for
    backstabbing
  3. Ranked #135 for
    smooth talker

Trailer

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