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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sailor Beware | Hal Walker | Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis | Comedy | Paramount Pictures |
| The Savage | George Marshall | Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow | Western | |
| Scandal Sheet | Phil Karlson | Broderick Crawford, John Derek, Donna Reed | Crime drama | Columbia Pictures |
| Scaramouche | George Sidney | Stewart Granger, Janet Leigh | Adventure | MGM |
| Singin' in the Rain | Stanley Donen | Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell | Musical comedy | MGM; 2 Oscar nominations; Golden Globe for O'Connor |
| Smitten Kitten | Hanna Barbera | Animated short | MGM | |
| The Sniper | Edward Dmytryk | Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz | Film noir | Columbia Pictures |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Henry King | Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward | Adventure | from Ernest Hemingway story |
| Something to Live For | George Stevens | Joan Fontaine, Ray Milland | Drama | Paramount Pictures |
| Son of Geronimo | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Clayton Moore, Rodd Redwing | Western | Columbia Pictures |
| Son of Paleface | Frank Tashlin | Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers | Western comedy | sequel to Paleface |
| The Star | Stuart Heisler | Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| The Stooge | Norman Taurog | Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen | Comedy | Paramount Pictures |
| The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men | Ken Annakin | Richard Todd, Peter Finch, James Robertson Justice | Adventure | Disney |
| The Story of Three Loves | Vincente Minnelli | James Mason, Kirk Douglas, Pier Angeli, Leslie Caron, Ethel Barrymore, Moira Shearer, Ricky Nelson | Anthology | MGM |
| Sudden Fear | David Miller | Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame | Film noir | RKO Pictures |
| Susie the Little Blue Coupe | Clyde Geronimi | Animated short | Walt Disney | |
| The Thief | Russell Rouse | Ray Milland, Martin Gabel | Film noir | United Artists |
| This Is Cinerama | Merian C. Cooper | Lowell Thomas | Documentary film | |
| This Woman is Dangerous | Felix E. Feist | Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Three for Bedroom "C" | Milton H. B | Gloria Swanson, James Warren | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Trance and Dance in Bali | Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson | Documentary | ||
| Trick or Treat | Donald Duck | Animated short | Walt Disney | |
| Triplet Trouble | Hanna Barbera | Tom and Jerry | Animated short | MGM |
| The Turning Point | William Dieterle | William Holden, Edmond O'Brien | Film noir | Paramount Pictures |
| Two Little Indians | Hanna Barbera | Tom and Jerry | Animated short | MGM |
| The Two Mouseketeers | Hanna Barbera | Tom and Jerry | Animated short | MGM |
| Viva Zapata! | Elia Kazan | Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn | Historical | |
| Water, Water Every Hare | Charles M. Jones | Bugs Bunny | Animated short | Warner Bros. |
| We're Not Married! | Edmund Goulding | Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe | Romantic comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| What Price Glory? | John Ford | James Cagney, Dan Dailey | War | 20th Century Fox |
| When in Rome | Clarence Brown | Van Johnson, Paul Douglas | Comedy | MGM |
| With a Song in My Heart | Walter Lang | Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun | Biography | |
| Without Warning! | Arnold Laven | Adam Williams, Edward Binns | Film noir | United Artists |
| The World in His Arms | Raoul Walsh | Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth | Adventure | Universal Pictures |
| Zombies of the Stratosphere | Fred C. Brannon | Serial | Republic Pictures |
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