My Movie Hit-List: 1950s

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.

A cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West.

When a town boss confiscates homesteaders' supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.

A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

A self-minded adventurer locks horns with a crooked lawman while driving cattle to Dawson.

Newcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.

The inspiring film biography of the courageous champion golfer Ben Hogan.

A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.

A telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may have committed murder.

Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.

At Kimberley Prescott's villa, a stranger shows up and claims he is her brother who supposedly died the previous year in a car accident.

A New York policeman tries to talk a man off a ledge as a crowd gathers below.

A film biography of the composer John Philip Sousa, from his early days in the Marine Corps Band through the Spanish-American War in 1898.

In New Orleans, discharged army Captain Vance Colby learns of his father's killing done by three local Creole gents at a card game, and he sets out to punish the killers.

Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.

In London, three otherwise law-abiding good men and their unscrupulous leader are about to commit a serious crime, but for different reasons.

Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) overcomes court intrigue to win favor with Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.

Three strangers - a stripper, an alcoholic wife and a travelling salesman - embark on a life-changing journey. As the road presents challenges, each character faces his or her own shortcomings, not knowing where life will lead next.

This drama set during the 1950s on a British-ruled Caribbean island deals with local politics, interracial relationships, social inequality, racism, adultery, and murder.

A man is chasing four outlaws who killed his wife and finds them in a small town's jail, but they escape to Mexico.

Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.