Overview of the events of 1954 in film
The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones.
Top-grossing films
United States
The top ten 1954 released films by box office gross in the United States are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1954
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
White Christmas
Paramount
$12,000,000[1]
2
The Caine Mutiny
Columbia
$8,700,000[1]
3
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Buena Vista
$8,000,000[1]
4
The Glenn Miller Story
Universal
$7,600,000[1]
5
The Country Girl
Paramount
$6,500,000[1]
6
The High and the Mighty A Star Is Born
Warner Bros.
$6,100,000[1]
7
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
MGM
$5,526,000[2]
8
Rear Window
Paramount
$5,300,000[1]
9
Magnificent Obsession
Universal
$5,200,000[1]
10
There's No Business Like Show Business
20th Century Fox
$5,103,555[3]
International
International market
Film
Studio
Revenue
Admissions
Production country
France
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Cocinor
—
6,986,788[4]
France
West Germany
From Here to Eternity
Columbia Pictures
—
13,000,000[5]
United States
India
Nagin
Filmistan
$6,090,000 [6] [7]
—
India
Italy
Ulysses
Lux Film
—
13,170,322[8]
Italy
Japan
What Is Your Name? Part 3
Shochiku
¥330,150,000 [9]
—
Japan
Soviet Union
Awaara
R. K. Films
$16,970,000[d]
100,000,000[12]
India
Spain
Quo Vadis
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
—
3,721,532[14]
United States
United Kingdom
Doctor in the House
Rank Organisation
—
12,200,000[15]
United Kingdom
Top ten money-making stars
Exhibitors selected the following as the Top Ten Money Making Stars of the Year in Quigley Publishing Company 's annual poll. John Wayne became the first actor to regain the number one spot after losing that position.[17]
Top Western stars
The poll also revealed the top Western stars.
Notable films released in 1954
United States unless stated
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A
Aar Paar (This or That), directed by and starring Guru Dutt – (India )
About Mrs. Leslie , starring Shirley Booth
Robinson Crusoe (Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico )
Alaska Seas , starring Robert Ryan and Jan Sterling
Amar (Immortal ), starring Madhubala , Nimmi and Dilip Kumar – (India)
An American in Rome (Un americano a Roma), starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy )
Andha Naal (That Day) – (India )
Animal Farm , an animated film – (GB )
Apache , starring Burt Lancaster
Attila , starring Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren – (France /Italy )
B
Bahut Din Huwe , starring Madhubala – (India )
The Back of Beyond – (Australia )
The Barefoot Contessa , directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz , starring Humphrey Bogart , Ava Gardner , Edmond O'Brien , Rossano Brazzi
Beachhead , starring Tony Curtis and Mary Murphy
Beau Brummell , starring Stewart Granger , Elizabeth Taylor , Peter Ustinov
Beautiful Stranger , aka Twist of Fate , starring Ginger Rogers – (GB /U.S. )
The Belles of St. Trinian's , starring Alastair Sim , Joyce Grenfell and George Cole – (GB )
Betrayed , fourth and final film co-starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner
A Big Family (Bolshaya semya) – (USSR )
The Black Knight , starring Alan Ladd – (GB/U.S.)
The Black Shield of Falworth , starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
Black Tuesday , starring Edward G. Robinson and Peter Graves
Black Widow , starring Ginger Rogers , Gene Tierney , Peggy Ann Garner , Van Heflin , George Raft
Boot Polish – (India )
Boris Godunov – (USSR )
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters , starring Leo Gorcey , Huntz Hall and Ellen Corby
Bread, Love and Jealousy (Pane, Amore e Gelosia), starring Vittorio De Sica and Gina Lollobrigida – (Italy )
The Bridges at Toko-Ri , directed by Mark Robson , starring William Holden , Grace Kelly , Fredric March , Mickey Rooney
Brigadoon , directed by Vincente Minnelli , starring Gene Kelly , Cyd Charisse , Van Johnson
Broken Lance , starring Spencer Tracy , Robert Wagner , Jean Peters , Richard Widmark , Katy Jurado
C
Cadet Rousselle , directed by André Hunebelle , starring François Périer and Dany Robin – (France )
The Caine Mutiny , directed by Edward Dmytryk , starring Humphrey Bogart , Van Johnson , Fred MacMurray , José Ferrer , Robert Francis , May Wynn , E. G. Marshall
Canaris , directed by Alfred Weidenmann – (West Germany )
Carmen Jones , starring Dorothy Dandridge (first African-American to be Oscar-nominated for Best Actress)
Casanova's Big Night , starring Bob Hope
Chronicle of Poor Lovers (Cronache di poveri amanti) – (Italy )
Circus Fandango – (Norway )
The Country Girl , directed by George Seaton , starring Bing Crosby , Grace Kelly , William Holden
Creature from the Black Lagoon , directed by Jack Arnold
Crime Wave , directed by André de Toth , starring Sterling Hayden and Phyllis Kirk
Crossed Swords ([Il Maestro di Don Giovanni] ), starring Errol Flynn and Gina Lollobrigida – (United States /Italy )
The Crucified Lovers (Chikamatsu Monogatari), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi , starring Kazuo Hasegawa – (Japan )
D
Dangerous Mission , starring Victor Mature and Piper Laurie
Deep in My Heart , directed by Stanley Donen , starring José Ferrer and Merle Oberon
Demetrius and the Gladiators , starring Victor Mature and Susan Hayward
Désirée , starring Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons
Dial M for Murder , directed by Alfred Hitchcock , starring Ray Milland , Robert Cummings , Grace Kelly
Doctor in the House , starring Dirk Bogarde , first of "Doctor" series – (GB )
Down Three Dark Streets , starring Broderick Crawford and Ruth Roman
Drive a Crooked Road , starring Mickey Rooney and Dianne Foster
Drum Beat , directed by Delmer Daves , starring Alan Ladd
E
The Egyptian , starring Jean Simmons , Gene Tierney , Victor Mature , Bella Darvi , Edmund Purdom
Eight O'Clock Walk , starring Richard Attenborough and Cathy O'Donnell – (GB )
Elephant Walk , starring Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Finch
Executive Suite , starring William Holden , Barbara Stanwyck , June Allyson , Fredric March , Louis Calhern , Walter Pidgeon , Nina Foch
F
The Far Country , directed by Anthony Mann , starring James Stewart , Ruth Roman , Walter Brennan
Father Brown , starring Alec Guinness – (GB )
Fear (La Paura), directed by Roberto Rossellini , starring Ingrid Bergman – (West Germany /Italy )
Five Boys from Barska Street (Piątka z ulicy Barskiej) – (Poland )
Flame and the Flesh , starring Lana Turner
French Cancan , starring Jean Gabin – (France /Italy)
The French Line , starring Jane Russell
G
Garden of Evil , starring Gary Cooper , Susan Hayward , Richard Widmark
The Glenn Miller Story , directed by Anthony Mann , starring Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson
Godzilla (Gojira), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan )
The Gold of Naples (L'oro di Napoli), directed by Vittorio De Sica , starring Silvana Mangano and Sophia Loren – (Italy )
The Good Die Young , directed by Lewis Gilbert , starring Stanley Baker and Laurence Harvey – (GB )
H
Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy , a Stop motion animated film
Happy Ever After , starring David Niven and Yvonne De Carlo – (GB)
Hell and High Water , directed by Samuel Fuller , starring Richard Widmark
Hell Below Zero , starring Alan Ladd
Hell's Half Acre , starring Evelyn Keyes and Wendell Corey
The High and the Mighty , starring John Wayne , Robert Stack , Laraine Day , Claire Trevor , Phil Harris
Highway Dragnet , starring Richard Conte and Joan Bennett
Hobson's Choice , directed by David Lean , starring Charles Laughton and John Mills – (GB )
The House Across the Lake , aka Heat Wave , starring Alex Nicol and Hillary Brooke – (GB)
Human Desire , starring Glenn Ford , Gloria Grahame , Broderick Crawford
I
J
K
L
The Lady of the Camellias (La Mujer de las camelias ) – (Argentina )
The Last Bridge (Die Letzte Brücke), starring Maria Schell and Bernhard Wicki – (Austria )
Late Chrysanthemums (bangiku), directed by Mikio Naruse – (Japan )
A Lesson in Love (En lektion i kärlek), directed by Ingmar Bergman , starring Eva Dahlbeck and Gunnar Björnstrand – (Sweden )
A Life at Stake , starring Angela Lansbury
Liliomfi – (Hungary )
Living It Up , starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
The Long, Long Trailer , starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
The Long Wait , starring Anthony Quinn
Loophole , starring Barry Sullivan and Dorothy Malone
M
N
O
P
Phantom of the Rue Morgue , starring Karl Malden , Patricia Medina , Merv Griffin
Phffft , starring Judy Holliday , Jack Lemmon , Kim Novak
Pride of the Blue Grass , starring Lloyd Bridges and Vera Miles
Prince Valiant , starring Robert Wagner , James Mason , Janet Leigh
Prisoner of War , starring Ronald Reagan
Private Hell 36 , directed by Don Siegel , starring Ida Lupino
Pushover , starring Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak (in her film debut)
R
Radio Cab Murder , directed by Vernon Sewell , starring Jimmy Hanley and Lana Morris – (GB )
The Raid , starring Van Heflin , Anne Bancroft , Lee Marvin
Rear Window , directed by Alfred Hitchcock , starring James Stewart , Grace Kelly , Thelma Ritter , Wendell Corey , Raymond Burr
Red Garters , directed by George Marshall , starring Rosemary Clooney
Return to Treasure Island , starring Tab Hunter
Riot in Cell Block 11 , directed by Don Siegel , starring Neville Brand
River of No Return , directed by Otto Preminger , starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe
Robinson Crusoe , starring Dan O'Herlihy
Rogue Cop , starring Robert Taylor and Janet Leigh
Romeo and Juliet , starring Laurence Harvey – (Italy /GB )
S
Sabrina , directed by Billy Wilder , starring Humphrey Bogart , Audrey Hepburn , William Holden
Salt of the Earth , starring Rosaura Revueltas and Will Geer
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (Miyamoto Musashi), directed by Hiroshi Inagaki , starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan )
Sansho the Bailiff (Sanshō Dayũ), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi , starring Kinuyo Tanaka – (Japan)
Saskatchewan , starring Alan Ladd
The Sea Shall Not Have Them , directed by Lewis Gilbert , starring Michael Redgrave , Dirk Bogarde , Anthony Steel , Nigel Patrick – (GB )
Secret of the Incas , starring Charlton Heston
The Seekers , starring Jack Hawkins and Glynis Johns – (GB)
Senso , directed by Luchino Visconti , starring Alida Valli and Farley Granger – (Italy )
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers , directed by Stanley Donen , starring Jane Powell and Howard Keel
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai), directed by Akira Kurosawa , starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura – (Japan )
She Couldn't Say No , starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons
Shield for Murder , starring Edmond O'Brien
The Silver Chalice , starring Paul Newman (in his film debut)
Silver Lode , starring Dan Duryea
Sira` Fi al-Wadi (Struggle in the Valley), directed by Youssef Chahine – (Egypt )
Sitting Bull , starring Dale Robertson and J. Carrol Naish
Sound of the Mountain (Yama no Oto), directed by Mikio Naruse – (Japan )
A Star Is Born , directed by George Cukor , starring Judy Garland and James Mason , musical remake of 1937 film
Star of India , starring Cornel Wilde and Herbert Lom – (GB )
La strada (The Road), directed by Federico Fellini , starring Anthony Quinn – (Italy )
Stranger from Venus , directed by Burt Balaban , starring Patricia Neal and Derek Bond
Suddenly , starring Frank Sinatra and Sterling Hayden
Supir Istimewa , directed by Rempo Urip and starring MS Priyadi and Ermina Zaenah (Indonesia)
Susan Slept Here , starring Debbie Reynolds and Dick Powell
T
Tanganyika , starring Van Heflin and Ruth Roman
Taza, Son of Cochise , starring Rock Hudson
Them! , starring James Whitmore , Edmund Gwenn , Joan Weldon , James Arness
There's No Business Like Show Business , starring Ethel Merman , Dan Dailey , Donald O'Connor , Mitzi Gaynor , Marilyn Monroe
They Who Dare , starring Dirk Bogarde – (GB )
Three Coins in the Fountain , starring Jean Peters , Dorothy McGuire , Maggie McNamara
Three Young Texans , starring Jeffrey Hunter , Mitzi Gaynor , Keefe Brasselle
Too Bad She's Bad (Peccato che sia una canaglia), starring Marcello Mastroianni , Sophia Loren , Vittorio De Sica – (Italy )
Top Banana , starring Phil Silvers
Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot), starring Jean Gabin – (France /Italy )
Track of the Cat , directed by William A. Wellman , starring Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright
Twenty-Four Eyes (Nijū-shi no Hitomi) – (Japan )
Twist of Fate , starring Ginger Rogers
V
W
The Weak and the Wicked , directed by J. Lee Thompson , starring Glynis Johns and Diana Dors – (GB )
West of Zanzibar (1954 film) , directed by Harry Watt , starring Anthony Steel , Sheila Sim , Edric Connor & Orlando Martins – (U.K. )
White Christmas , directed by Michael Curtiz , starring Bing Crosby , Danny Kaye , Rosemary Clooney , Vera-Ellen , Dean Jagger
Windfall in Athens (Kyriakatiko xypnima), directed by Michael Cacoyannis – (Greece )
Witness to Murder , directed by Roy Rowland , starring Barbara Stanwyck , Gary Merrill , George Sanders
Woman's World , starring June Allyson , Clifton Webb , Fred MacMurray , Van Heflin , Lauren Bacall , Arlene Dahl
Wyoming Renegades , starring Phil Carey
Y