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1950 Chronicle of The Cinema

by wijayaandik • Created 9 years ago • Modified 4 days ago
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  • All About Eve (1950)

    1. All About Eve

    19502h 18mApproved98Metascore
    8.2 (146K)
    A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
    DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsBette DavisAnne BaxterGeorge Sanders
    Nova / Film 103
  • Father of the Bride (1950)

    2. Father of the Bride

    19501h 32mApproved76Metascore
    7.1 (13K)
    The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.
    DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsSpencer TracyJoan BennettElizabeth Taylor
  • House by the River (1950)

    3. House by the River

    19501h 23mApproved
    7.0 (4.6K)
    A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother's help in hiding the body, causing unexpected problems for both of them.
    DirectorFritz LangStarsLouis HaywardLee BowmanJane Wyatt
  • Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame in In a Lonely Place (1950)

    4. In a Lonely Place

    19501h 34mApproved
    7.9 (38K)
    A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
    DirectorNicholas RayStarsHumphrey BogartGloria GrahameFrank Lovejoy
  • The Young and the Damned (1950)

    5. The Young and the Damned

    19501h 20mNot Rated
    8.2 (23K)
    A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAlfonso MejíaRoberto CoboEstela Inda
    Rare Filmm / Film 104
  • Toshirô Mifune and Machiko Kyô in Rashomon (1950)

    6. Rashomon

    19501h 28mNot Rated98Metascore
    8.1 (191K)
    The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMachiko KyôMasayuki Mori
    AMO
  • Harry Carey Jr., Ben Johnson, Victor McLaglen, J. Carrol Naish, and Chill Wills in Rio Grande (1950)

    7. Rio Grande

    19501h 45mApproved
    7.0 (19K)
    A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son who's a risk-taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneMaureen O'HaraBen Johnson
  • No Way Out (1950)

    8. No Way Out

    19501h 46mApproved
    7.4 (6.8K)
    Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
    DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsRichard WidmarkLinda DarnellStephen McNally
  • Jean Cocteau in The Terrible Children (1950)

    9. The Terrible Children

    19501h 45mNot Rated
    6.9 (4.5K)
    The dangerously obsessive relationship between a psychologically manipulative brother and sister who isolate themselves and draw others into their mind games.
    DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsNicole StéphaneEdouard DermitheRenée Cosima
  • Peggy Cummins and John Dall in Gun Crazy (1950)

    10. Gun Crazy

    19501h 27mApproved74Metascore
    7.6 (16K)
    Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
    DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsJohn DallPeggy CumminsBerry Kroeger
  • Marie Déa, María Casares, Jean Marais, and François Périer in Orpheus (1950)

    11. Orpheus

    19501h 52mNot Rated
    7.8 (14K)
    A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
    DirectorJean CocteauStarsJean MaraisFrançois PérierMaría Casares
    Criterion
  • James Stewart and Shelley Winters in Winchester '73 (1950)

    12. Winchester '73

    19501h 32mApproved83Metascore
    7.6 (23K)
    A cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West.
    DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartShelley WintersDan Duryea
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)

    13. Cyrano de Bergerac

    19501h 53mApproved
    7.4 (4.8K)
    The charismatic swordsman-poet and provocateur in 1640s Paris helps a young guardsman woo the woman he loves, complicated by the politics of the nobility and the war with Spain.
    DirectorMichael GordonStarsJosé FerrerMala PowersWilliam Prince
    Amazon
  • James Stewart, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Josephine Hull, and Cecil Kellaway in Harvey (1950)

    14. Harvey

    19501h 44mApproved79Metascore
    7.9 (60K)
    A whimsical man is thought to be insane due to his insistence that he is best friends with an invisible, humanoid rabbit, but he may be wiser than anyone knows.
    DirectorHenry KosterStarsJames StewartWallace FordWilliam H. Lynn
    Film 103
  • Louis Calhern in The Magnificent Yankee (1950)

    15. The Magnificent Yankee

    19501h 29mApproved
    6.7 (697)
    Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
    DirectorJohn SturgesStarsLouis CalhernAnn HardingEduard Franz
  • Burt Lancaster and Dorothy McGuire in Mister 880 (1950)

    16. Mister 880

    19501h 30mApproved
    7.0 (2.1K)
    Gentle romantic comedy about a Secret Service Agent trying to catch a cold case counterfeiter and a United Nations translator.
    DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsBurt LancasterEdmund GwennDorothy McGuire
  • James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, and Debra Paget in Broken Arrow (1950)

    17. Broken Arrow

    19501h 33mApproved
    7.1 (10K)
    Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.
    DirectorDelmer DavesStarsJames StewartJeff ChandlerDebra Paget
  • Eleanor Parker in Caged (1950)

    18. Caged

    19501h 37mApproved
    7.6 (5.3K)
    A gentle, naive, pregnant 19-year-old widow is slowly, inexorably ground down by the hardened criminals, sadistic guards, and matron at a woman's prison. Will she be the same person when her sentence is up?
    DirectorJohn CromwellStarsEleanor ParkerAgnes MooreheadEllen Corby
    Los Movies
  • Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

    19. Annie Get Your Gun

    19501h 47mApproved77Metascore
    6.8 (5.5K)
    The story of the great sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who rose to fame while dealing with her love/professional rival, Frank Butler.
    DirectorsGeorge SidneyBusby BerkeleyStarsBetty HuttonHoward KeelLouis Calhern
  • Destination Moon (1950)

    20. Destination Moon

    19501h 32mApproved
    6.3 (5K)
    "Destination Moon", tells the tale of when Doctor Charles Cargraves and retired General Thayer approach Jim Barnes, the head of his own aviation construction firms to help build a rocket that will take them to the moon.
    DirectorIrving PichelStarsJohn ArcherWarner AndersonTom Powers
    M4uhd
  • Judith Anderson, Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Thomas Gomez, Walter Huston, and Gilbert Roland in The Furies (1950)

    21. The Furies

    19501h 49mApproved
    7.2 (4.2K)
    A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon, but their relationship turns ugly only when he finds himself a new woman.
    DirectorAnthony MannStarsBarbara StanwyckWendell CoreyWalter Huston
  • Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger in King Solomon's Mines (1950)

    22. King Solomon's Mines

    19501h 43mApproved69Metascore
    6.7 (7.5K)
    Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
    DirectorsCompton BennettAndrew MartonStarsDeborah KerrStewart GrangerRichard Carlson
  • The Flame and the Arrow (1950)

    23. The Flame and the Arrow

    19501h 28mApproved
    6.8 (4.5K)
    Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
    DirectorJacques TourneurStarsBurt LancasterVirginia MayoRobert Douglas
  • The Black Rose (1950)

    24. The Black Rose

    19502hApproved
    6.2 (2.6K)
    A disinherited 13th Century Saxon nobleman leaves Norman England with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the Far East.
    DirectorHenry HathawayStarsTyrone PowerOrson WellesCécile Aubry
  • Cinderella (1950)

    25. Cinderella

    19501h 14mG85Metascore
    7.3 (182K)
    When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq and from her Fairy Godmother.
    DirectorsClyde GeronimiWilfred JacksonHamilton LuskeStarsIlene WoodsJames MacDonaldEleanor Audley

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