THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952)

If you love circuses, good for you. This Best Picture winner is way too long and has way too much circus, and when the characters actually talk to each other it’s even worse.

THE QUIET MAN (1952)

John Wayne romances Maureen O’Hara against a backdrop so stereotypically Irish, you might puke.

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952)

This all-timer of a movie musical is completely bonkers, but still impresses through sheer strength of will (and dancing)