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1952 Top Ten List

1. Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
2. Scandal Sheet (Phil Karlson)
3. The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)
4. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Angel Face (Otto Preminger)
6. The Big Sky (Howard Hawks)
7. The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
8. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)
9. Forbidden Games (René Clément)
10. Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson)

Other 1952 Films I Enjoyed

• Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
• The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
• The Quiet Man (John Ford)
• Clash by Night (Fritz Lang)
• Casque d’Or (Jacques Becker)
• Bend of the River (Anthony Mann)
• Limelight (Charles Chaplin)
• High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)