Favorite Movies of the 1950s?

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  1. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    Great list....
    58. THE GAZEBO
    59. THE FASTEST GUN ALIVE
    60. THE GIANT BEHEMOTH.
     
  2. Monosterio

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    And The Third Man was 1949, hence my earlier post...
    If those two were '50s films, they’d be all over these lists.
     
  3. ando here

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    Can't deny her dominance during this time. But I could never sit through more than a couple of her films. Love Me or Leave Me (1955) has a believable storyline, great singing and a fun and uncharacteristic James Cagney team up.
     
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    I have many favorites from the 50's-this just happens to be the one I was watching today.
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    Yes, we haven't even mentioned the gamut of Sci-Fi films that proliferated during the 50s. Someone I recently conversed with also mentioned the infusion of horror into many of these movies; none quite as infamous as Ishirō Honda's 1954 Godzilla. But I suppose Byron Haskins' 1953 War of the Worlds is more in line with When Worlds Collide. I like Spielberg's remake of the H.G, Welles' story as well.
     
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    That's definitely why I liked it. I still remember reviewing the movie saying how this western was quite different. I like Sterling Hayden, too. Only saw it once. I should watch it again, because I don't remember the details.
     
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  7. stepeanut

    stepeanut The gloves are off

    The Olive Signature Edition BD is the one to get.
     
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    So over-the-top in terms of performances it's practically operatic. Couldn't you see Verdi setting Johnny Guitar to music? :D If not Verdi, surely Aaron Copland!
     
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    The Night of the Hunter (1955)
    Rear Window (1954)
    Strangers on a Train (1951)

     
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    I've been looking at dates to make sure they all fall in the 50s

    Marty
    The Cranes Are Flying
    Come Back, Little Sheba
    Ordet
    La Notti Bianche
    Tokyo Story
    Nights of Cabiria
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    The Searchers
    The Harder They Fall
    Caged
    Sweet Smell of Success
    Summer With Monika
    Baby Doll
     
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    Good ones. Most have been mentioned earlier in thread.
    Though their films have been mentioned no two American actors were bigger than Brando and Monroe in the 50s. Certainly no two actors were imitated more.
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    Not sure about the nature of this promotion but The Rose Tattoo (1955), featured on the placard, like A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), The Glass Menagerie (1950) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), was another good film adaption by playwright, Tennessee Williams. His plays continue to get adapted to screenplays in the 60s. Looking back it's amazing to see the length of his influence (especially for a writer) in the dog-eat-dog, trend-or-die Hollywood.
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  12. Rear Window
    North By Northwest
    The Naked Spur
    The Searchers
    The Seventh Seal
     
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  13. Doris Day is really good in Young Man With A Horn. For once, she's not in a comedy, and she really can sing.
     
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    I liked Kirk Douglas in this, and another tortured artist role in "Lust For Life"
     
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    If you like Kirk you gotta see his performance in Detective Story (1951). It'll break ya haaaat!
     
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    Thanks! I don't think I saw this one, and I'm a fan of William Wyler :)
     
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    As far as documentaries go Kon -Tiki (1950) has long been a favorite of mine. Loved the book as a kid and was not disappointed when I finally got a chance to see the film.

     
  18. stepeanut

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    The dark side of Young Man with a Horn:

    Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson, 1959)

    Great performance from Richard Burton.
     
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    Wow. Some great ones there!

    + Stalag 17

    1953
    William Holden
    Otto Preminger
    Robert Strauss
    Peter Graves

    Directed by
    Billy Wilder
     
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    The late British actor, Alec Guinness, known to kids as the original Ben Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars) and/or for older folks, the original George Smiley (Tinker, Taylor), was in his hey day during the 50s with an interesting string of films. In these movies you really get an appreciation of the type of great "character actor" he really was:

    1959 Our Man in Havana Jim Wormald
    1959 The Scapegoat John Barrett, Count Jacques De Gue
    1958 The Horse's Mouth Gully Jimson
    1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai Col. Nicholson
    1955 The Prisoner The Cardinal
    1955 The Ladykillers Professor Marcus
    1953 The Captain's Paradise Capt. Henry St. James
    1952 The Promoter E.H. Machin
    1951 The Man in the White Suit Sidney Stratton
    1951 The Lavender Hill Mob Henry Holland
    1950 The Mudlark

    The Prisoner
    is my favorite among these; a kind of psychic cat and mouse game between a cardinal and his police interrogator in a repressed, totalitarian state. But Our Man In Havana and Bridge over the River Kwai were the box office hits.
     
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    So much for IMDb: here is their list of Musicals of the 1950s

    I've been meaning to watch my copy the classic, Oklahoma, for years. Now's a good time to get to it. But IMDb left out two of my favorites -

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    Directed by Alan Reisner, St. Louis Blues is a 1958 film about the early life of composer W.C. Handy. Starring Nat "King" Cole, Eartha Mitt, Pear Bailey, Ruby Dee and Mahalia Jackson among other great talents. In terms of direction the movie is, frankly, stiff and formulaic but has some interesting scene transitions. The music, as you might expect, makes it. Everyone is in fine form as we get to listen to a fine Midwestern take on the early days of jazz. A must see if you like good music.

    And how IMDb forgot to include Albert Camus' Brazilian classic Black Orpheus (1959) boggles the mind.
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  22. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    there are so many...THEM!
     
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  23. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    and Kirk was amazing!
     
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  24. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    Bogart's last movie...a heavy movie.
     
  25. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    saw Caged when I was a youngster...good movie.
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