Domestic Release Schedule for 1951

This chart lists all movies that had a release in theaters in the United States and/or Canada in 1951.

See also: Top 1951 Worldwide - Most Popular 1951

Current Release Schedule 1952 →
Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date		Trailer
January, 1951
January 1 The Great Caruso (Wide) $4,500,000  
 
January 31 Call Me Mister (Limited) 20th Century Fox $5,000,000  
February, 1951
February 2 Cause for Alarm! (Limited)    
 
February 14 Vengeance Valley (Limited)    
 
February 22 No Orchids for Miss Blandish (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures    
 
February 23 Quo Vadis? (Wide) $30,000,000  
March, 1951
March 8 Royal Wedding (Limited)    
 
March 25 Rawhide (Limited)    
 
March 31 The Man in the White Suit (Limited) $3,874  
April, 1951
April 2 The Lemon Drop Kid (Limited)    
 
April 5 Teresa (Limited) MGM    
 
April 6 The Thing From Another World (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures    
 
April 20 On the Riviera (Wide) $2,500,000  
 
April 27 Fathers Little Dividend (Limited)    
May, 1951
May 4 Lassie: The Painted Hills (Limited)    
 
May 18 Home Town Story (Limited)    
June, 1951
June 16 Native Son (Limited) Classic Pictures    
July, 1951
July 3 Strangers on a Train (Wide) Warner Bros. $7,000,000  
 
July 4 Ace in the Hole (Limited)    
 
July 9 Rich Young and Pretty (Wide) MGM    
 
July 17 Show Boat (Limited) $11,000,000  
 
July 26 On Moonlight Bay (Limited) Warner Bros.    
 
July 28 Alice in Wonderland (Wide) RKO Radio Pictures    
August, 1951
August 10 David and Bathsheba (Wide) $14,000,000  
 
August 14 A Place in the Sun (Limited)    
 
August 28 Flying Leathernecks (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures    
September, 1951
September 10 The River (Limited)    
 
September 13 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (Limited) Warner Bros. $6,000,000  
 
September 18 A Streetcar Named Desire (Wide) Warner Bros. $8,000,000  
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Limited) $3,700,000  
 
September 21 No Highway in the Sky (Limited)    
October, 1951
October 4 An American in Paris (Limited) MGM $4,500,000  
 
October 12 Across the Wide Missouri (Limited) MGM $5,500,000  
 
October 15 The Lavender Hill Mob (Limited) Universal    
November, 1951
November 11 Flight to Mars (Limited) Monogram Pictures    
 
November 15 Callaway Went Thataway (Limited)    
 
November 28 A Christmas Carol (Limited) United Artists    
December, 1951
December 6 Fixed Bayonets! (Limited)    
 
December 8 The Strange Door (Limited) Universal    
 
December 26 The African Queen (Limited) United Artists $10,750,000  
Rashomon (Limited) Janus Films $96,568  
 
December 31 Westward the Women (Limited)