1953 (Features/Shorts) Best to Worst

An aging movie star uncertain of his future teams up with a top ballerina to headline a new Broadway musical, but the pretentiously artistic goals of its director threaten to change it beyond recognition.

After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.

A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.

Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.

Duck Dodgers and Marvin Martian wage war over Planet X.

A madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.

A squirrel in a downtown park lugs a giant coconut back home, but nothing he does can seem to crack it open.

Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.

At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a pugilistic private is cruelly punished for refusing to join his unit's boxing team. Meanwhile, his commanding officer's wife and top NCO are indulging in a torrid love affair.

Two friends pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.

As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.

A sheepdog thwarts the efforts of a thieving wolf whose tricks include altering the time clock, hiding in a bush, imitating Pan, digging a tunnel, unleashing a wildcat and disguising himself as the dog's coworker.

Bugs heads toward the record carrot crop in Alabama but runs into Colonel (Yosemite) Sam who is under orders to let no Yankee cross the Mason-Dixon line.

An ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.

A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

The story of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok.

A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.

A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.

A variation on the age-old 'Three Little Pigs' theme, with Droopy and pals being the target of one of the most laid-back wolves you'll ever see.

In his first of two Warner Bros. cartoons, schoolboy Ralph Phillips daydreams in class, the lessons inspiring his fantasy heroics, such as being a pony-express rider, a deep-sea diver, a boxing champion and even General Douglas MacArthur.

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them.

Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.