May 14, 1970

Top 10 Films of 1954

1. "The Seven Samurai" (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)

2. "Rear Window" (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

3. "On The Waterfront" (Elia Kazan, USA)

4. "Beat The Devil" (John Huston, USA)

5. "A Star Is Born" (George Cukor, USA)

6. "La Strada" (Federico Fellini, Italy)

7. "Johnny Guitar" (Nicholas Ray, USA)

8. "Them!" (Gordon Douglas, USA)

9. "Magnificent Obsession" (Douglas Sirk, USA)

10. "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers" (Stanley Donen, USA)


Other great films:

20 000 Leagues Under The Sea
Abismos de pasion (Mexico)
The Barefoot Contessa
The Caine Mutiny
Carmen Jones
Celuloza (Poland)
Chikamatsu (Japan)
The Country Girl
Dial M For Murder
Ernst Thalmann: Sohn seiner Klasse (East Germany)
The Naked Jungle
Piatka z ulicy Barskiej (Poland)
Pod gwiazda frygijska (Poland)
Touchez pas au grisbi (France)
True Friends (Soviet Union)
The Vanishing Prairie
Vera Cruz
Viaggio in Italia (Italy)
Victory At Sea
The Wild One

Short Top 3:

1. "Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome" (Kenneth Anger, USA)

2. "Thursday's Children" (Lindsay Anderson, Guy Brenton, UK)


3. "Paul Tomkowicz Street-Railway Switchman" (Roman Kroitor, NFB, Canada)


Other great shorts:

Berenice (France)

Top Commercial:

"White Rain" (White Rain Shampoo)


Top TV:

"The George Burns And Gracie Allen Show: Columbia Picture Doing Burns And Allen Story" (Frederick De Cordova, CBS)


Cartoon Top 10

1. "Pigs Is Pigs" (Jack Kinney, Disney)


2. "Crazy Mixed-Up Pup" (Tex Avery, Universal)


3. "Convict Concerto" (Don Patterson, Universal)


4. "When Magoo Flew" (Pete Burness, Columbia)


5. "I'M Cold" (Tex Avery, Universal)


6. "No Barking" (Chuck Jones, Warner)


7. "Baby Buggy Bunny" (Chuck Jones, Warner)


8. "Sandy Claws" (Friz Freleng, Warner)


9. "How Now Boing-Boing" (Robert Cannon, Columbia)


10. "The Little Chimney Sweep" (Lotte Reiniger, UK)


Other great cartoons:

Baby Butch
Bewitched Bunny
Billy Boy
Bird-Brain Bird Dog
Bringing Up Mother
Bugs And Thugs
By Word Of Mouth
Casey Bats Again
Claws For Alarm
Design For Leaving
Dixieland Droopy
Dog Pounded
Donald's Diary
Drag-along Droopy
Dragon Around
A Drop Too Much (Czechoslovakia)
The Flying Squirrel
Fudget's Budget
Gone Batty
Grand Canyonscope
Grin And Bear It
Hic-cup Pup
Little Boy Boo
Little School Mouse
The Lone Chipmunks
Lumber Jack-Rabbit
Man On The Flying Trapeze
Pet Peeve
The Seapreme Court
Sheep Ahoy
Sleepy-Time Squirrel
Stop Look And Hasten
The Three Wishes (UK)
Touche Pussy Cat
Under The Counter Spy
Wild Wife
Yankee Doodle Bugs

Weak films of 1954:

Brigadoon
Guacho (Argentina)
The High And The Mighty
Island Monster
Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto (Japan)
White Christmas
Young At Heart

Weak shorts:

The First Piano Quartette
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