| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| Sailor Beware | Hal Walker | Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Corinne Calvet | Comedy | Paramount |
| Sally and Saint Anne | Rudolph Mate | Ann Blyth, Edmund Gwenn, John McIntire | Comedy | Universal |
| The San Francisco Story | Robert Parrish | Yvonne De Carlo, Joel McCrea, Sidney Blackmer | Western | Warner Bros. |
| Saturday Island | Stuart Heisler | Linda Darnell, Tab Hunter, Donald Gray | Adventure, Romance, War | United Artists; Alternate title Island of Desire |
| The Savage | George Marshall | Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow, Peter Hansen | Western | Paramount |
| Scandal Sheet | Phil Karlson | Broderick Crawford, John Derek, Donna Reed | Crime drama | Columbia |
| Scaramouche | George Sidney | Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh | Adventure | MGM |
| Scarlet Angel | Sidney Salkow | Yvonne de Carlo, Rock Hudson, Richard Denning | Adventure | Universal |
| Sea Tiger | Frank McDonald | Marguerite Chapman, Mara Corday, John Archer | Drama | Monogram |
| The Sellout | Gerald Mayer | Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Paula Raymond | Drama | MGM |
| Shadow in the Sky | Fred M. Wilcox | Ralph Meeker, Nancy Davis, Jean Hagen | Drama | MGM |
| She's Working Her Way Through College | H. Bruce Humberstone | Virginia Mayo, Ronald Reagan, Gene Nelson | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Singin' in the Rain | Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen | Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen | Musical comedy | MGM; 2 Oscar nominations; Golden Globe for O'Connor |
| Skirts Ahoy! | Sidney Lanfield | Esther Williams, Joan Evans, Vivian Blaine | Comedy | MGM |
| Sky Full of Moon | Norman Foster | Carleton Carpenter, Jan Sterling, Keenan Wynn | Western | MGM |
| Smoky Canyon | Fred F. Sears | Charles Starrett, Jock Mahoney, Smiley Burnette | Western | Columbia |
| The Sniper | Edward Dmytryk | Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Marie Windsor | Film noir | Columbia |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Henry King | Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward | Adventure | 20th Century Fox; from Ernest Hemingway story |
| Somebody Loves Me | Irving Brecher | Betty Hutton, Ralph Meeker, Adele Jergens | Musical | Paramount |
| Something for the Birds | Robert Wise | Victor Mature, Patricia Neal, Edmund Gwenn | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| Something to Live For | George Stevens | Joan Fontaine, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright | Drama | Paramount |
| Son of Ali Baba | Kurt Neumann | Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Susan Cabot | Adventure | Universal |
| Son of Paleface | Frank Tashlin | Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers | Western comedy | Paramount; sequel to Paleface |
| Sound Off | Richard Quine | Mickey Rooney, John Archer, Gordon Jones | Comedy | Columbia |
| South Pacific Trail | William Witney | Rex Allen, Estelita Rodriguez, Nestor Paiva | Western | Republic |
| Springfield Rifle | André de Toth | Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, Lon Chaney Jr. | Western | Warner Bros. |
| The Star | Stuart Heisler | Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Stars and Stripes Forever | Henry Koster | Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget | Musical, biography | 20th Century Fox; story of John Philip Sousa |
| The Steel Fist | Wesley Barry | Roddy McDowall, Kristine Miller, Harry Lauter | Drama | Monogram |
| Steel Town | George Sherman | John Lund, Ann Sheridan, Howard Duff | Drama | Universal |
| The Steel Trap | Andrew L. Stone | Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale | Film noir | 20th Century Fox |
| The Stooge | Norman Taurog | Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen | Comedy | Paramount |
| Stop, You're Killing Me | Roy Del Ruth | Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Storm Over Tibet | John Hoffman | Rex Reason, Diana Douglas, Myron Healey | War | Columbia |
| The Story of Robin Hood | Ken Annakin | Richard Todd, Peter Finch, Joan Rice | Adventure | Disney |
| The Story of Will Rogers | Michael Curtiz | Will Rogers Jr., Jane Wyman, Eve Miller | Biography | Warner Bros. |
| Strange Fascination | Hugo Haas | Cleo Moore, Mona Barrie, Mona Barrie | Film noir | Columbia |
| Sudden Fear | David Miller | Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame | Film noir | RKO |
| Talk About a Stranger | David Bradley | George Murphy, Nancy Davis, Lewis Stone | Film noir | MGM |
| Target | Stuart Gilmore | Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Lane Bradford | Western | RKO |
| Tarzan's Savage Fury | Cy Endfield | Lex Barker, Dorothy Hart, Patric Knowles | Adventure | RKO |
| Texas City | Lewis D. Collins | Johnny Mack Brown, Lois Hall, James Ellison | Western | Monogram |
| The Thief | Russell Rouse | Ray Milland, Martin Gabel, Rita Gam | Film noir | United Artists |
| Thief of Damascus | Will Jason | Paul Henreid, John Sutton, Jeff Donnell | Adventure | Columbia |
| This Woman is Dangerous | Felix E. Feist | Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, Mari Aldon | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Three for Bedroom "C" | Milton H. Bren | Gloria Swanson, James Warren, Hans Conried | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Thunder in the East | Charles Vidor | Allan Ladd, Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer | War drama | Paramount |
| Thunderbirds | John H. Auer | John Derek, John Drew Barrymore, Mona Freeman | War | Republic |
| Thundering Caravans | Harry Keller | Allan Lane, Mona Knox, Eddy Waller | Western | Republic |
| Torpedo Alley | Lew Landers | Mark Stevens, Dorothy Malone, Charles Winninger | War | Allied Artists |
| Toughest Man in Arizona | R. G. Springsteen | Vaughn Monroe, Joan Leslie, Edgar Buchanan | Western | Republic |
| Trail Guide | Lesley Selander | Tim Holt, Frank Wilcox, Linda Douglas | Western | RKO |
| The Treasure of Lost Canyon | Ted Tetzlaff | William Powell, Julie Adams, Rosemary DeCamp | Adventure | Universal |
| Tropical Heat Wave | R.G. Springsteen | Estelita Rodriguez, Robert Hutton, Grant Withers | Musical comedy | Republic |
| The Turning Point | William Dieterle | William Holden, Edmond O'Brien, Alexis Smith | Film noir | Paramount |
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