Movies – Digital Video Collection

Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead, she constantly tries to perform at his club, the Tropicana, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlord and best friends, Fred and Ethel Mertz.

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Director Edward Sedgwick

Runtime 1 h 20 min

Release Date 1 January 1953

Tagline The wife of a band leader constantly tries to become a star - in spite of her having no talent, and gets herself (along with her best friend) into the funniest predicaments.

IMDb Id tt0445461

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Movie Rating Not rated

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Starring: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley

Mr Scoutmaster

Comedy

Mister Scoutmaster

CLIFTON WEBB IN THE COMEDY RIOT OF THE YEAR!

19531 h 27 min

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Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Scout leader in an effort to "get in touch." Overnight hikes and other adventures follow, all centered around one small boy who takes a liking to the old curmudgeon.

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Director Henry Levin

Runtime 1 h 27 min

Release Date 2 September 1953

Tagline CLIFTON WEBB IN THE COMEDY RIOT OF THE YEAR!

IMDb Id tt0046081

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Movie Rating Not rated

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Starring: Clifton Webb, Edmund Gwenn, George Winslow, Frances Dee, Veda Ann Borg, Jimmy Hawkins, Jimmy Moss, Sammy Ogg, Skip Torgerson, Lee Aaker, Mickey Little, Jon Gardner, Sarah Selby, Amanda Randolph, Otis Garth, Harry Seymour, Bill McKenzie, Steve Brent, Ned Glass, Dabbs Greer

By The Light of the Silvery Moon

Comedy, Family, Music, Romance

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

They're Wooin' and Doin' The Things Boy and Girls Like To Do...

19531 h 41 min

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Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.

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Director David Butler

Runtime 1 h 41 min

Release Date 26 March 1953

Tagline They're Wooin' and Doin' The Things Boy and Girls Like To Do...

IMDb Id tt0045586

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Movie Rating Not rated

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Starring: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp, Billy Gray, Mary Wickes, Russell Arms, Maria Palmer, Howard Wendell, Walter 'PeeWee' Flannery, Carol Forman

Peter Pan Signature Collection

Animation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy

Peter Pan

It will live in your heart forever!

19531 h 17 min

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Leaving the safety of their nursery behind, Wendy, Michael and John follow Peter Pan to a magical world where childhood lasts forever. But while in Neverland, the kids must face Captain Hook and foil his attempts to get rid of Peter for good.

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Director Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

Runtime 1 h 17 min

Release Date 5 February 1953

Tagline It will live in your heart forever!

IMDb Id tt0046183

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Movie Rating Not rated

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Starring: Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson, Heather Angel, Paul Collins, Tommy Luske, Candy Candido, Tom Conway, June Foray, Margaret Kerry

Roman Holiday

Comedy, Romance, Drama

Roman Holiday

19531 h 59 min

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Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.

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Director William Wyler

Runtime 1 h 59 min

Release Date 26 August 1953

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Starring: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams, Margaret Rawlings, Tullio Carminati, Paolo Carlini, Claudio Ermelli, Paola Borboni, Alfredo Rizzo, Laura Solari, Gorella Gori, Armando Annuale, Maurizio Arena, Gildo Bocci, Andrea Esterhazy, George Higgins, Richard McNamara, Luigi Moneta, Piero Pastore, Mimmo Poli, Giuliano Raffaelli, Carlo Rizzo, Gianna Segale, Dianora Veiga, Marco Tulli, Tania Weber, Catherine Wyler

Julius Caesar

Drama, History

Julius Caesar

19532 h 00 min

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The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.

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Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Runtime 2 h 00 min

Release Date 4 June 1953

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Starring: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Louis Calhern, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr, Edmond O'Brien, George Macready, Michael Pate, Richard Hale, Alan Napier, John Hoyt, Ian Wolfe, Douglass Dumbrille, Rhys Williams, Michael Ansara, Tom Powers, William Cottrell, Jack Raine, Morgan Farley, William Phipps, Douglass Watson, Dayton Lummis, Paul Guilfoyle, Edmund Purdom, Lawrence Dobkin, Jo Gilbert, Chet Stratton, Lumsden Hare, Preston Hanson, Vic Perry, Michael Tolan, John Lupton, Joseph Waring, John Doucette, John Hardy

Calamity Jane

Action, Music, Western

Calamity Jane

19531 h 41 min

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The Wild West heroine Calamity Jane helps bring a star attraction to Deadwood and finds love.

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Director David Butler

Runtime 1 h 41 min

Release Date 4 November 1953

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Starring: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson, Paul Harvey, Chubby Johnson, Gale Robbins, Colin Kenny, Billy Bletcher, Bess Flowers, Frank McLure, Bert Stevens, Arthur Tovey

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

Comedy, Music

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

IT'S M-G-M's LOVE-HAPPY, YOUTHFUL MUSICAL!

19531 h 12 min

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Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father, even though and maybe because she says she's in dreamville, does not share her affection for Dobie. An English essay which almost revolutionizes English instruction, and Dobie's role in a chemistry lab explosion convinces Mr. Hammer he is right. Pansy is sent off broken-hearted to an Eastern school, but with the help of Happy Stella Kolawski's all-girl band, several hundred students and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt.

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Director Don Weis

Runtime 1 h 12 min

Release Date 14 August 1953

Tagline IT'S M-G-M's LOVE-HAPPY, YOUTHFUL MUSICAL!

IMDb Id tt0045479

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Movie Rating Not rated

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Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick, Bob Fosse, Hanley Stafford, Lurene Tuttle, Hans Conried, Charles Lane, Archer MacDonald, Kathleen Freeman, Almira Sessions, Willis Bouchey, Charles Halton, Percy Helton, Donald Elson