VICTOR SAVILLE Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5. USA, 1954. Victor Saville Productions. Screenplay by Lesser Samuels, based on the novel by Thomas B. Costain. Cinematography by William V. Skall. Produced by Victor Saville. Music by Franz Waxman. Production Design by Rolf Gerard. Costume Design by Marjorie Best, Rolf Gerard. Film Editing by George White. … More The Silver Chalice (1954)
GEORGE MARSHALL Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5. USA, 1954. Paramount Pictures. Screenplay by Michael Fessier. Cinematography by Arthur E. Arling. Produced by Pat Duggan. Music by Joseph J. Lilley. Production Design by Roland Anderson, Hal Pereira. Costume Design by Edith Head, Yvonne Wood. Film Editing by Arthur P. Schmidt. Academy Awards 1954. This musical … More Red Garters (1954)
WILLIAM A. WELLMAN Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB. USA, 1954. Wayne-Fellows Productions. Screenplay by Ernest K. Gann, based on his novel. Cinematography by Archie Stout. Produced by Robert Fellows, John Wayne. Music by Dimitri Tiomkin. Production Design by Alfred Ybarra. Costume Design by Gwen Wakeling. Film Editing by Ralph Dawson. Academy Awards 1954. Golden … More The High and the Mighty (1954)
ANTHONY MANN Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. USA, 1954. Universal Pictures. Screenplay by Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney. Cinematography by William H. Daniels. Produced by Aaron Rosenberg. Music by Henry Mancini. Production Design by Alexander Golitzen, Bernard Herzbrun. Costume Design by Jay A. Morley Jr.. Film Editing by Russell F. Schoengarth. Academy Awards 1954. The … More The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
BBB (out of 5) Daniel Defoe’s classic novel is adapted by Luis Bunuel in his only fully English-language film (financed by a Mexican production company). Dan O’Herlihy is solid as the English aristocrat traveling to procure slaves for his Brazilian plantation when a storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded alone on a tropical island. … More Robinson Crusoe (The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe)
BB (out of 5) Maggie McNamara comes to Rome to work as a secretary at the United States Distribution Agency (whatever that is) and becomes friends with two women doing similar work, one a jaded Jean Peters who has lied and said she is engaged in order to go home, and the other a past-her-prime Dorothy … More Three Coins In The Fountain
GEORGE CUKOR Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. USA, 1954. Columbia Pictures Corporation. Story and Screenplay by Garson Kanin. Cinematography by Charles Lang. Produced by Fred Kohlmar. Music by Friedrich Hollaender. Production Design by John Meehan. Costume Design by Jean Louis. Film Editing by Charles Nelson. Academy Awards 1954. Judy Holliday reunites with Born Yesterday writer Garson Kanin and director George Cukor for another look at an … More It Should Happen To You (1954)
