All Films

The Raven

1951 • 14 min • Austria

A short horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven.

The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights

1951 • 30 min • Soviet Union

Animated film based on the story of Alexander Pushkin. The new king's wife wants to get rid of their stepdaughter and expels it to certain death in the forest. Princess finds refuge in the forest in the seven bogatyrs. The queen, finds out about it and poisons her...

The Gingerbread House

1951 • 19 min • Czechoslovakia

One Quack Mind

1951 • 6 min • United States of America

Dumb and overgrown Baby Huey finds himself left to the untender mercies of a fox disguised as a baby sitter. Hue also turns out to be one tough duck when he discovers his new baby sitter likes to play rough. So does Huey, who proceeds to beat the stuffing out of the fox.

West of England

1951 • 10 min • United Kingdom

The people, the scenery and the industrial traditions of the Stroud valley and the growth of the woollen industry.

Missing Women

1951 • 60 min • United States of America

A woman becomes desperate to find a pair of car thieves after her husband -- while on their honeymoon -- is killed during a robbery.

The Kid from Amarillo

1951 • 56 min • United States of America

Charles "Durango" Starrett and his pal Smiley Burnette go after smugglers. Our heroes travel incognito across the Mexican border to beard the leader of the gang in his den.

Seasick Sailors

1951 • 6 min • United States of America

A Terrytoons cartoon with Little Roquefort.

Pier 23

1951 • 58 min • United States of America

Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth Dennis O'Brien. In Pier 23, O'Brien first tackles the case of a wrestler who has died of a suspicious heart attack after refusing to lose a match. He then agrees to help a priest talk an escaped criminal into returning to prison.

Wells Fargo Gunmaster

1951 • 60 min • United States of America

Rocky Lane, Special Investigator for Wells Fargo, shows up just in time to save the stage from being robbed. Unable to find the mastermind, or even the outlaws who rob the stage, Rocky goes undercover as an outlaw.

Flowers of Asphalt

1951 • 7 min • United States of America

Suggested music to be played during film : “Concerto Grosso” by Ludwig van Beethoven. With John Markopoulos, Maria Markopoulos, Andrew Markopoulos, Elaine Markopoulos and others. Filmed in Toledo, Ohio. ( This film contains footage from Jackdaw and Christmas U.S.A. Preserved by Temenos, Zurich & New York.

Joe Santa Claus

1951 • 30 min • United States of America

Disgusted that he's been moved from the hardware department to duties as a department store Santa Claus and angry that his wife wants to go to work and earn money, young father Joe Peters deserts his family. While in his Santa role, Joe chances to meet his daughter and discovers what she really wants for Christmas.

The Sun Was Setting

1951 • 15 min • United States of America

A woman is dying in her apartment. Two friends visit her and she tells them she wants to go to Chinatown. They convince her not to go, and then leave themselves. Unable to stand her confinement, the woman dies.

Prairie Roundup

1951 • 55 min • United States of America

In Prairie Roundup, Fred F. Sears' direction brings a welcome jolt of vitality to Columbia's aging "Durango Kid" western series. Once again, Charles Starrett stars as Steve Carson, a lawman who is forced to assume the identity of masked do-gooder Durango. Framed for murder, Carson escapes to locate the real killer. It turns out that he was set up by cattle baron Buck Prescott, who eliminates competition by stealing livestock from other ranchers.

Fort Dodge Stampede

1951 • 60 min • United States of America

The Pike gang steal $30,000 from the Adams Bank, but one of them double crosses the rest of the gang and hides the money in Fort Dodge, Nevada. As Fort Dodge is out of his jurisdiction, Deputy Sheriff 'Rocky' Lane (Allan Lane) takes a vacation there and finds that everything is owned by 'Skeeter' Davis (Chubby Johnson), who knows nothing about the hidden money. But the Pike gang is also in town looking for the money. When settlers come to town, Rocky devises a plan to catch the outlaws and retrieve the money for the Adams Bank

Three Portrait Sketches

1951 • 8 min • Italy, United Kingdom

The three portrait sketches of the title are called 'Claudia', 'Fernando Birri' and 'Saulat Rahman'. Presumably made when Margaret Tait was a student at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematographia, Rome.

Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas

1951 • 60 min • United States of America

At the end of the Civil War, Sam White returns home to his ranch in the Texas ranch -The Panhandle - to find it in the hands of a gang of outlaws

Law of the Badlands

1951 • 59 min • United States of America

The Texas Rangers send Dave and Chito into the badlands to see if they can locate a counterfeiting operation. They arrive posing as wanted outlaws and this gets them into the gang. But as soon as they uncover the operation and locate the printing press, one of Chito's girl friends arrives to expose their identity and they find themselves trapped by the entire gang.

Mask of the Dragon

1951 • 53 min • United States of America

A private eye and his girlfriend avenge his buddy, stabbed over a jade dragon.

Stop That Cab

1951 • 58 min • United States of America

The trials and tribulations of a cab driver working the night shift, who must put with an assortment of crazies, hardcases and sob stories during work and then has to come home to a loud, argumentative, shrewish wife.

Out of Scale

1951 • 7 min • United States of America

Donald has a ride-on sized train layout in his backyard. There's a large tree (home to Chip 'n Dale) that's out of scale, so Donald moves it while they're out; they come back to see their tree moving. No problem; one of Donald's model houses is just their size.

Lord Epping Returns

1951 • 20 min • United States of America

Leon Errol invites Lord Epping for dinner, then impersonates him when he expects his Lordship is otherwise engaged.

To Be a Woman

1951 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Documentary arguing the case for equal pay for women. Women are seen employed in their homes, in factories, teaching, nursing, in politics and in the professions. There are also some newsreel shots of marching suffragettes.

Benjy

1951 • 10 min

Benjy is a 1951 American short documentary film directed by Fred Zinnemann. It won an Oscar in 1952 for Documentary Short Subject. Henry Fonda narrates this short film about a boy who was handicapped from birth. An orthopedic pediatrician wants to provide a therapeutic regimen that could cure the child, a scoliosis patient, but first he needs to convince the boy's parents, who have rejected the child because of his disabilities.