Film · 1958 · Films · 1950s
Ice Cold in Alex
Scored from 56 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).
Summary
In June 1942, as Tobruk falls to Rommel's advance, Captain George Anson — a British ambulance officer worn down by exhaustion and drink — sets out to reach Allied lines at Alexandria in a battered Austin ambulance he calls Katy. With him are his steady sergeant major Tom Pugh, two army nurses including Sister Diana Murdoch, and Captain van der Poel, a hulking South African whose account of himself never quite holds together. The route across open desert brings minefields, soft sand, breakdowns and German patrols, and Anson keeps himself going on the promise of an ice-cold lager waiting at the end of it. J. Lee Thompson's black-and-white war film plays the ordeal of the crossing against the suspicion building inside the vehicle.
Ice Cold in Alex (1958) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, drama and war genres. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. It runs 2h 10m and carries a PG certificate.
Only 56 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 60 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1950s films — 561 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Ice Cold in Alex lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1950s (561 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 56.
Cohort: Films · 1950s
