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Films of the 1950s

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Notable Film Franchises, 1950- 1959

Carry On...
- Carry On Sergeant (1958)
- Carry On Nurse (1959)
- Carry On Teacher (1959)
Colossal Man
- The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
- War of the Colossal Beast (1958)
Universal Horror
- The Creature Series
  - Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) — The grandfather of Jaws.
  - Revenge of the Creature (1955)
  - The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
The Fly
- The Fly (1958)
- Return of the Fly (1959)
Godzilla
- Gojira (1954) — Created the "kaiju" genre of Japanese film.
  - Godzilla King Of The Monsters (1956)
- Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
The Lassie series continues.
- Challenge to Lassie (1950)
- The Painted Hills (1951)
St Trinians
- The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
- Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)
The Jungle Jim series continues.
- Mark of the Gorilla (1950)
- Captive Girl (1950)
- Jungle Jim in Pygmy Island (1950)
- Fury of the Congo (1951)
- Jungle Manhunt (1951)
- Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952)
- Voodoo Tiger (1952)
- Savage Mutiny (1953)
- Valley of the Headhunters (1953)
- Killer Ape (1953)
- Jungle Man-Eaters (1954)
- Cannibal Attack (1954)
- Jungle Moon Men (1955)
- Devil Goddess (1956)

1950

All About Eve
Annie Get Your Gun
The Asphalt Jungle
Born Yesterday
Broken Arrow
Cheri
Cinderella
Destination Moon
D.O.A.
The Gunfighter
Harvey — A man claims he sees an invisible six-foot tall rabbit
In A Lonely Place
Radar Secret Service
Rashomon
Rocketship XM
Stage Fright
Sunset Boulevard — An aging has-been takes a young man as her lover and wants to take over his life
Winchester 73

1951

Ace In The Hole
Alice in Wonderland
Angels In The Outfield
The African Queen
An American In Paris
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951
The Desert Fox
Lost Continent
Los Olvidados — Also known as The Forgotten Ones and The Young and the Damned. A crude story about the tragic lives of the destitute children living in the slums of Mexico City.
Racket Girls
Scrooge 1951
Strangers on a Train
A Streetcar Named Desire - STELLLLLAAAAA! STELLLLLA!
The Thing from Another World
When Worlds Collide

1952

The Bad And The Beautiful
The Crimson Pirate
Don Camillo
The Greatest Show On Earth
High Noon — Possibly the most famous movie Western.
Ikiru
Invasion USA 1952
Road to Bali
Scaramouche
Shane
The Quiet Man
Singin' in the Rain — Classic musical that calls back to the first "talkies."

1953

The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T — Dr. Seuss's only live-action film, an early cult movie.
The Band Wagon
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
The Blue Gardenia
Cat Women Of The Moon
From Here To Eternity
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Glen Or Glenda � directed by Ed Wood
House Of Wax 1953
How To Marry A Millionaire
I Confess
I Vitelloni
It Came from Outer Space � Early subversion of the "alien invaders" genre.
Kiss Me Kate
Mr Hulots Holiday
Peter Pan
Project Moonbase
The Robe
Robot Monster
Roman Holiday
Sadko
Sailor Of The King
Stalag 17
The Titfield Thunderbolt
Tokyo Story
The Wages Of Fear
The Wild One

1954

The Caine Mutiny
The Dam Busters
Demetrius And The Gladiators
Devil Girl From Mars
Dial M For Murder
The Egyptian
The Glenn Miller Story
Gojira
Jail Bait
On The Waterfront - "I could'a been a contenda. I coulda been somebody."
Rear Window
Sabrina
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) — Akira Kurosawa's chanbara classic, which spawned The Magnificent Seven and others.
Them! — Along with Godzilla, introduced the durable "rampaging mutant animals" genre.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
White Christmas

1955

Bad Day At Black Rock— Where Spencer Tracy is a one-armed Badass.
Bride of the Monster
Cellbound
The Court Jester
Les Diaboliques
East Of Eden
Godzilla Raids Again
Guys And Dolls
Kiss Me Deadly
Lady and the Tramp
The Ladykillers
Mister Roberts
The Night Of The Hunter
The Prodigal
Rebel Without a Cause
The Seven Year Itch
Tarantula
Teenage Crime Wave
This Island Earth
To Catch A Thief
The Trouble With Harry

1956

And God Created Woman
The 30 Foot Bride Of Candy Rock
Carousel
The Deadly Mantis
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Fire Maidens From Outer Space
Forbidden Planet — Examines the danger of unlimited power without responsibility. Or control.
Giant
The Girl Can't Help It
Godzilla King Of The Monsters — The American edit of the 1954 film, which would end up being released in Japan as well.
Gunslinger
High Society
Ilya Muromets — Known outside Russia best as The Sword and the Dragon.
It Conquered the World
Invasion of the Body Snatchers — A classic of paranoid sci-fi horror.
The Jazz Singer
The Killing
The King and I
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Never Was
Moby Dick
The Mole People
The Opposite Sex — Loose remake of the 1939 film The Women that actually featured men, unlike the original, which was officially remade in 2008 with an all-female cast.
The Red Balloon
Rodan — Classic Toku film directed by Ishiro Honda
The Searchers — If you have been to film school, you have seen this. And vice versa.
The She-Creature
The Ten Commandments — One of those films that is so grand in scale and sweeping in effects that they couldn't afford to make it today.
The Violent Years
The Wrong Man

1957

3:10 to Yuma
12 Angry Men � A man's future hangs in the balance as 12 jurors decide whether he lives or dies.
A King In New York
An Affair To Remember
Attack of the Crab Monsters
Beginning of the End
The Black Scorpion
The Bridge On The River Kwai � A great story, completely different from what really happened.
Cinderella
The Curse of Frankenstein
A Face In The Crowd
Funny Face
The Giant Claw � Earth is attacked by a Giant Antimatter Space Buzzard.
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Invasion Of The Saucer Men
Love In The Afternoon
The Military Policeman And The Dismembered Beauty
The Monolith Monsters
Night of the Demon
Nights Of Cabiria
Old Yeller � One of the classic Tear Jerkers of many a childhood.
The Pajama Game
Paths Of Glory
Sayonara
The Seventh Seal
Sweet Smell Of Success
The Mysterians - An alien invasion movie from Toho.
The Three Faces Of Eve
Throne of Blood
The Twenty Seventh Day
The Undead
The Unearthly
Witness For The Prosecution

1958

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Andy Hardy Comes Home
Attack of the 50-Foot Woman
Auntie Mame
The Big Country
The Blob
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
The Crawling Eye
Daddy O
Damn Yankees
Earth vs. The Spider
Gigi — The film often regarded as the greatest MGM musical ever made.
Hercules — At the head of the "Sand And Sandal" genre
The Hidden Fortress
Horror of Dracula — Hammer Horror's first take on the eponymous count.
I Want To Live
Ice Cold In Alex
The Last Hurrah
The Long Hot Summer
Mon Oncle
The Naked Truth
Night of the Blood Beast
A Night to Remember
Plan 9 from Outer Space — Commonly cited as the "worst movie ever made".
Queen Of Outer Space
The Screaming Skull
The Space Children
Terror From The Year 5000
The Thing That Couldn't Die
Touch Of Evil
A Town Like Alice
Varan The Unbelievable - A giant monster movie from the same people who made Godzilla.
Vertigo
The Vikings

1959

Anatomy Of A Murder
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Battle In Outer Space — Toho's second entry in the space opera "trilogy".
Ben Hur — The most famous version of the story.
The Big Fisherman
Darby O Gill And The Little People
The Day The Earth Froze
The Diary of Anne Frank
Fate Of A Man
Der Frosch mit der Maske — The first of over 30 German Edgar Wallace Films.
The Giant Gila Monster
The Girl In Lovers Lane
Girls Town
High School Big Shot
House On Haunted Hill 1959 — The William Castle original.
The Killer Shrews
Last Clear Chance
Lil Abner
The Little Island
Missile To The Moon
The Mouse That Roared
Night Of The Ghouls
North by Northwest
North West Frontier
On the Beach
Operation Petticoat
Pillow Talk
Pork Chop Hill
Prince Of Space
The Rebel Set
Rio Bravo — John Wayne actually does act in this movie, but he's upstaged by the old man's dialogue. And Dean Martin.
Santa Claus
Sleeping Beauty
Some Like It Hot
Sterne — East German film. English title is Stars.
Suddenly Last Summer
Teenagers From Outer Space
Third Man On The Mountain
Tiger Bay
The Tingler

The Golden Age Of Animation Cartoons and Live Action Shorts

The Three Stooges — Their final shorts, post-Curly.
Classic Disney Shorts
- Adventures In Music Duology (1953)
Popeye
Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies
- "Ali Baba Bunny" (1957)
- "Birds Anonymous" (1957)
- Bully For Bugs (1953)
- "Duck Amuck" (1953)
- "Duck Dodgers in the 24�th Century" (1953)
- "Feed the Kitty (1952)
- "One Froggy Evening" (1955)
- "Rabbit Fire" (1951)
- "Rabbit Seasoning" (1952)
- "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" (1950)
- "Whats Opera Doc" (1957)
"Harold And The Purple Crayon" (1959)
Tom And Jerry and other classic shorts from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
UPA shorts, including Mr Magoo
- "Gerald McBoing-Boing" (1951)
- "Rooty Toot Toot" (1953)
- "The Unicorn in the Garden" (1953)

Films of the 1940s

Films of the 1960s

The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951

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