Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1951

Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date
January 1951
January 1 The Great Caruso (Wide) $4,500,000
 
January 2 Gasoline Alley (Limited)  
 
January 31 Call Me Mister (Limited) 20th Century Fox $5,000,000
February 1951
February 2 Cause for Alarm! (Limited)  
 
February 3 Payment on Demand (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
February 14 Vengeance Valley (Limited)  
 
February 22 No Orchids for Miss Blandish (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
February 23 Quo Vadis? (Wide) $30,000,000
 
February 24 Law of the Badlands (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
March 1951
March 8 Royal Wedding (Limited)  
 
March 14 Abbott and Costello Meet The Invisible Man (Limited) Universal  
 
March 25 Rawhide (Limited)  
 
March 26 Lullaby of Broadway (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
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 12 Lightning Strikes Twice (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
April 20 On the Riviera (Wide) $2,500,000
Saddle Legion (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
April 27 Fathers Little Dividend (Limited)  
May 1951
May 4 Lassie: The Painted Hills (Limited)  
 
May 5 Apache Drums (Limited)  
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
May 18 Home Town Story (Limited)  
 
May 20 Goodbye, My Fancy (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
May 27 Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (Limited) Warner Bros.  
June 1951
June 2 Along the Great Divide (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
June 15 No Questions Asked (Limited) MGM  
 
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 14 Fort Worth (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
July 17 Show Boat (Limited) $11,000,000
 
July 26 On Moonlight Bay (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
July 27 Pistol Harvest (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
July 28 Alice in Wonderland (Wide) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
July 30 Roadblock (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
August 1951
August 1 Cattle Drive (Limited) Universal  
 
August 10 David and Bathsheba (Wide) $14,000,000
 
August 14 A Place in the Sun (Limited)  
 
August 17 The Tall Target (Limited) MGM  
 
August 24 Jim Thorpe – All-American (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
August 25 His Kind of Woman (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
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)  
 
September 22 Tomorrow is Another Day (Limited) Warner Bros.  
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 $16,361
 
October 25 The Racket (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
November 1951
November 11 Flight to Mars (Limited) Monogram Pictures  
 
November 15 Callaway Went Thataway (Limited)  
 
November 28 A Christmas Carol (Limited) United Artists  
 
 
November TBD Cave Of Outlaws (Limited) Universal  
Red Mountain (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
December 1951
December 6 Fixed Bayonets! (Limited)  
I’ll See You in My Dreams (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
December 8 The Strange Door (Limited) Universal  
 
December 15 Overland Telegraph (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
December 17 On Dangerous Ground (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
December 25 My Favorite Spy (Wide) Paramount Pictures  
 
December 26 The African Queen (Limited) United Artists $10,750,000
Rashomon (Limited) Janus Films $96,568
 
December 31 Westward the Women (Limited)