List of British films of 1953

British films released in 1953

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A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1953 (see 1953 in film):

## 1953

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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes

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1953
36 Hours | Montgomery Tully | Dan Duryea, Elsie Albiin, Eric Pohlmann | Crime |
Albert R.N. | Lewis Gilbert | Anthony Steel, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty | War |
Alf's Baby | Maclean Rogers | Jerry Desmonde, Pauline Stroud, Sandra Dorne | Comedy |
Always a Bride | Ralph Smart | Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan, Ronald Squire | Comedy |
Appointment in London | Philip Leacock | Dirk Bogarde, Ian Hunter, Dinah Sheridan | War |
Background | Daniel Birt | Valerie Hobson, Philip Friend, Norman Woodland | Drama |
Beat the Devil | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida | Comedy thriller | Co-production with Italy
The Beggar's Opera | Peter Brook | Laurence Olivier, Dorothy Tutin, Hugh Griffith | Musical |
Behind the Headlines | Maclean Rogers | Gilbert Harding, Vi Kaley, Jack May | Crime |
Black 13 | Ken Hughes | Peter Reynolds, Rona Anderson, Lana Morris | Crime |
Black Orchid | Charles Saunders | Ronald Howard, Olga Edwardes, John Bentley | Crime |
Blood Orange | Terence Fisher | Tom Conway, Mila Parély, Naomi Chance | Crime |
The Blue Parrot | John Harlow | Dermot Walsh, Jacqueline Hill, Ballard Berkeley | Crime |
The Broken Horseshoe | Martyn C. Webster | Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter Coke | Crime |
The Captain's Paradise | Anthony Kimmins | Alec Guinness, Celia Johnson, Yvonne De Carlo | Romantic comedy |
Cosh Boy | Lewis Gilbert | Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Hermione Baddeley | Crime drama |
Counterspy | Vernon Sewell | Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hermione Baddeley | Thriller |
The Cruel Sea | Charles Frend | Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Virginia McKenna | War |
A Day to Remember | Ralph Thomas | Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden, Odile Versois | Comedy drama |
Deadly Nightshade | John Gilling | Emrys Jones, Zena Marshall, John Horsley | Crime |
Death Goes to School | Stephen Clarkson | Barbara Murray, Gordon Jackson, Beatrice Varley  | Mystery |
Decameron Nights | Hugo Fregonese | Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Joan Collins | Drama |
Desperate Moment | Compton Bennett | Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Albert Lieven | Thriller |
The Dog and the Diamonds | Ralph Thomas | Kathleen Harrison, George Coulouris, Geoffrey Sumner | Family |
Escape by Night | John Gilling | Sid James, Bonar Colleano, Simone Silva | Crime |
The Fake | Godfrey Grayson | Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams | Crime |
The Final Test | Anthony Asquith | Jack Warner, Robert Morley, Adrianne Allen | Sports |
The Flanagan Boy | Reginald Le Borg | Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, Tony Wright | Drama |
Flannelfoot | Maclean Rogers | Ronald Howard, Mary Germaine, Jack Watling | Crime |
Forces' Sweetheart | Maclean Rogers | Hy Hazell, Harry Secombe, Freddie Frinton | Comedy |
Four Sided Triangle | Terence Fisher | Barbara Payton, Stephen Murray, James Hayter | Sci-fi |
The Gambler and the Lady | Patrick Jenkins | Dane Clark, Kathleen Byron, Naomi Chance | Crime |
Genevieve | Henry Cornelius | Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall | Comedy | Number 86 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films
The Girl on the Pier | Lance Comfort | Veronica Hurst, Ron Randell, Charles Victor | Crime |
Glad Tidings | Wolf Rilla | Barbara Kelly, Raymond Huntley, Ronald Howard | Comedy drama |
The Good Beginning | Gilbert Gunn | John Fraser, Eileen Moore, Peter Reynolds | Drama |
Grand National Night | Bob McNaught | Nigel Patrick, Moira Lister, Beatrice Campbell | Thriller |
The Great Game | Maurice Elvey | James Hayter, Thora Hird, Diana Dors | Sports |
The Heart of the Matter | George More O'Ferrall | Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell | Drama |
The House of the Arrow | Michael Anderson | Oskar Homolka, Yvonne Furneaux, Robert Urquhart | Mystery |
House of Blackmail | Maurice Elvey | Mary Germaine, William Sylvester, Alexander Gauge | Drama |
Innocents in Paris | Gordon Parry | Alastair Sim, Jimmy Edwards, Claire Bloom | Comedy |
Intimate Relations | Charles Frank | Harold Warrender, William Russell, Elsie Albiin | Drama | Entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival
The Intruder | Guy Hamilton | Jack Hawkins, Michael Medwin, George Cole | Drama |
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? | Maurice Elvey | Diana Dors, Bonar Colleano, David Tomlinson | Comedy |
Isn't Life Wonderful! | Harold French | Cecil Parker, Eileen Herlie, Donald Wolfit | Comedy |
It's a Grand Life | John E. Blakeley | Frank Randle, Diana Dors, Jennifer Jayne | Comedy |
Johnny on the Run | Lewis Gilbert | Sydney Tafler, Michael Balfour, Jean Anderson | Drama |
The Kidnappers | Philip Leacock | Duncan Macrae, Theodore Bikel, Adrienne Corri | Drama |
The Large Rope | Wolf Rilla | Donald Houston, Susan Shaw, Vanda Godsell | Crime |
Laughing Anne | Herbert Wilcox | Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker | Adventure |
Laxdale Hall | John Eldridge | Kathleen Ryan, Raymond Huntley, Ronald Squire | Comedy |
The Limping Man | Cy Endfield | Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister, Alan Wheatley | Thriller |
The Long Memory | Robert Hamer | John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars | Drama |
Love in Pawn | Charles Saunders | Bernard Braden, Barbara Kelly, Jeannie Carson | Comedy |
Malta Story | Brian Desmond Hurst | Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Muriel Pavlow | War |
The Man Between | Carol Reed | James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef | Thriller |
The Man from Cairo | Ray Enright | George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale, Irene Papas | Crime | Co-production with Italy
Mantrap | Terence Fisher | Paul Henreid, Lois Maxwell, Kieron Moore | Crime |
Marilyn | Wolf Rilla | Sandra Dorne, Maxwell Reed, Leslie Dwyer | Crime |
The Master of Ballantrae | William Keighley | Errol Flynn, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell | Adventure |
Meet Mr. Lucifer | Anthony Pelissier | Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Barbara Murray | Comedy |
Melba | Lewis Milestone | Patrice Munsel, Robert Morley, John McCallum | Biopic |
Murder at 3am | Francis Searle | Dennis Price, Peggy Evans, Arnold Bell | Crime |
Murder at Scotland Yard | Victor M. Gover | Tod Slaughter, Patrick Barr, Tucker McGuire | Thriller |
The Net | Anthony Asquith | James Donald, Phyllis Calvert, Herbert Lom | Thriller |
Never Let Me Go | Delmer Daves | Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles | Adventure |
Noose for a Lady | Wolf Rilla | Dennis Price, Rona Anderson, Ronald Howard | Crime |
Operation Diplomat | John Guillermin | Guy Rolfe, Lisa Daniely, Patricia Dainton | Drama |
The Oracle | C. M. Pennington-Richards | Robert Beatty, Michael Medwin, Virginia McKenna | Comedy |
Our Girl Friday | Noel Langley | Joan Collins, Kenneth More George Cole | Comedy |
Park Plaza 605 | Bernard Knowles | Tom Conway, Eva Bartok, Joy Shelton | Crime |
Personal Affair | Anthony Pelissier | Gene Tierney, Leo Genn, Glynis Johns | Drama |
Recoil | John Gilling | Kieron Moore, Elizabeth Sellars, Edward Underdown | Crime |
The Red Beret | Terence Young | Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Susan Stephen | War |
Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue | Harold French | Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice | Historical adventure |
Rough Shoot | Robert Parrish | Joel McCrea, Evelyn Keyes, Herbert Lom | Thriller |
Sailor of the King | Roy Boulting | Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller | War |
The Saint's Return | Seymour Friedman | Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler | Thriller |
Sea Devils | Raoul Walsh | Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed | Adventure | Co-production with the United States
Small Town Story | Montgomery Tully | Donald Houston, Susan Shaw, Alan Wheatley | Thriller |
South of Algiers | Jack Lee | Van Heflin, Eric Portman, Wanda Hendrix | Adventure |
Spaceways | Terence Fisher | Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley | Sci-fi |
The Square Ring | Basil Dearden | Sid James, Jack Warner, Joan Collins | Drama |
The Steel Key | Robert S. Baker | Terence Morgan, Joan Rice, Raymond Lovell | Thriller |
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan | Sidney Gilliat | Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie | Musical |
Strange Stories | Don Chaffey, John Guillermin | Peter Bull, Naomi Chance, Valentine Dyall | Drama |
The Straw Man | Donald Taylor | Dermot Walsh, Lana Morris, Clifford Evans | Crime |
Street Corner | Muriel Box | Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan, Anne Crawford | Drama |
Street of Shadows | Richard Vernon | Cesar Romero, Kay Kendall, Simone Silva | Crime |
Stryker of the Yard | Arthur Crabtree | Clifford Evans, Susan Stephen, Jack Watling | Crime |
The Sword and the Rose | Ken Annakin | Glynis Johns, Richard Todd, James Robertson Justice | Adventure | Co-production with the United States
Take a Powder | Lionel Tomlinson | Julian Vedey, Max Bacon, Maudie Edwards | Comedy |
There Was a Young Lady | Lawrence Huntington | Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Sydney Tafler | Comedy |
Those People Next Door | John Harlow | Jack Warner, Charles Victor, Garry Marsh | Comedy |
Three Steps in the Dark | Daniel Birt | Greta Gynt, Hugh Sinclair, Sarah Lawson | Crime |
Three Steps to the Gallows | John Gilling | Scott Brady, Mary Castle, Gabrielle Brune  | Crime |
Time Bomb | Ted Tetzlaff | Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham | Thriller |
The Titfield Thunderbolt | Charles Crichton | Stanley Holloway, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson | Comedy |
Top of the Form | John Paddy Carstairs | Ronald Shiner, Harry Fowler, Jacqueline Pierreux | Comedy |
Trouble in Store | John Paddy Carstairs | Norman Wisdom, Moira Lister, Lana Morris | Comedy |
Turn the Key Softly | Jack Lee | Yvonne Mitchell, Joan Collins, Kathleen Harrison | Drama |
Twice Upon a Time | Emeric Pressburger | Hugh Williams, Elizabeth Allan, Jack Hawkins | Comedy |
Valley of Song | Gilbert Gunn | Mervyn Johns, Clifford Evans, Maureen Swanson | Comedy |
The Wedding of Lilli Marlene | Arthur Crabtree | Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott, Sid James | Drama |
Wheel of Fate | Francis Searle | Patric Doonan, Sandra Dorne, Bryan Forbes | Drama |
Will Any Gentleman...? | Michael Anderson | George Cole, Veronica Hurst, Heather Thatcher | Comedy |
The Yellow Balloon | J. Lee Thompson | Andrew Ray, Kathleen Ryan, Kenneth More | Drama |

## Documentaries

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The Conquest of Everest | George Lowe | Meredith Edwards (narrator) | Documentary |
Man of Africa | Cyril Frankel | Frederick Bijuerenda, Gordon Heath |  | Entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival
O Dreamland | Lindsay Anderson |  | Documentary short subject |
A Queen Is Crowned |  | Narrated by Laurence Olivier | Documentary |

## See also

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* 1953 in British music
* 1953 in British television
* 1953 in the United Kingdom

## External links

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* Aardman Animations
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* DNA Films
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* Ealing Studios
* Elstree Studios
* Eon Productions
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* Thin Man Films
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* Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden
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* Wimbledon Studios
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* Amicus Productions
* Associated British Picture Corporation
* Astra Films
* British and Dominions
* British Instructional Films
* British National Films Company
* Butcher's Film Service
* Clapham Studios
* Clarendon Film Company
* Craven Park Studios
* Bryanston Films
* The Danzigers
* Denham Film Studios
* Eagle-Lion Films
* Eros Films
* Esher Studios
* G. B. Samuelson Productions
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* Hemdale Film Corporation
* Hepworth Pictures
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* Ideal Film Company
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* MGM-British Studios
* Merton Park Studios
* The Rank Organisation
* Rock Studios
* Southall Studios
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* Surbiton Studios
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* Tigon British Film Productions
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* Woodfall Film Productions
* Woolf & Freedman Film Service

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