1950 Movies

All About Eve

Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm

Country: United States of America

Outline: An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.

Born Yesterday

Directed by: George Cukor

Starring: Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford, Howard St. John

Country: United States of America

Outline: A tycoon hires a tutor to teach his lover proper etiquette, with unexpected results.

Father of the Bride

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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.

Broken Arrow

Directed by: Delmer Daves

Starring: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael

Country: United States of America

Outline: Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.

Cheaper by the Dozen

Directed by: Walter Lang

Starring: Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Betty Lynn

Country: United States of America

Outline: "Cheaper By the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in ...

Three Little Words

Directed by: Richard Thorpe

Starring: Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl

Outline: The story of the successful Tin Pan Alley songwriting team of Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby is told loosely and lightheartedly.

King Solomon's Mines

Directed by: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton

Starring: Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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.

Rashomon

Directed by: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura

Country: United States of America

Outline: A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view.

In a Lonely Place

Directed by: Nicholas Ray

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid

Country: United States of America

Outline: A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. But she begins to have doubts.

Night and the City

Directed by: Jules Dassin

Starring: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe

Country: United States of America

Outline: A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.

Harvey

Directed by: Henry Koster

Starring: James Stewart, Wallace Ford, William H. Lynn, Victoria Horne

Country: United States of America

Outline: Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six foot-tall rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane - but he may be wiser than anyone knows.

The Asphalt Jungle

Directed by: John Huston

Starring: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore

Country: United States of America

Outline: A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel.

Gun Crazy

Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis

Starring: John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky

Country: United States of America

Outline: A well meaning crack shot husband is pressured by his beautiful marksman wife to go on an interstate robbery spree, where he finds out just how depraved and deadly she really is.

Caged

Directed by: John Cromwell

Starring: Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson

Country: United States of America

Outline: A naive nineteen year old widow becomes coarsened and cynical when she is sent to a woman's prison and is exposed to hardened criminals and sadistic guards.

The Gunfighter

Directed by: Henry King

Starring: Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker

Country: United States of America

Outline: Notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo rides into town to find his true love, who doesn't want to see him. He hasn't come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner.

Winchester '73

Directed by: Anthony Mann

Starring: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally

Country: United States of America

Outline: The journey of a prized rifle from one ill-fated owner to another parallels a cowboy's search for a murderous fugitive.

La Ronde

Directed by: Max Ophüls

Starring: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon

Country: United States of America

Outline: Vignettes revolving around a circle of interconnected love.

Aventurera

Directed by: Alberto Gout

Starring: Ninón Sevilla, Tito Junco, Andrea Palma, Rubén Rojo

Outline: Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to ...

No Man of Her Own

Directed by: Mitchell Leisen

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Phyllis Thaxter

Country: United States of America

Outline: A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad crash victim and starts a new life with the woman's wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Directed by: Michael Gordon

Starring: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky

Country: United States of America

Outline: The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves in this straightforward version of the play.

Stars in My Crown

Directed by: Jacques Tourneur

Starring: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale

Outline: In 1865, the small Southern town of Walsburg has become so dangerous, that Parson Josiah Doziah Gray gives his sermons while holding a gun.

Champagne for Caesar

Directed by: Richard Whorf

Starring: Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, Barbara Britton

Outline: In order to get even with the pompous president of a soap company, an eccentric genius goes on his quiz show in order to bankrupt his company.

The Breaking Point

Directed by: Michael Curtiz

Starring: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez

Outline: An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.

Das kalte Herz

Directed by: Paul Verhoeven

Starring: Lutz Moik, Hanna Rucker, Paul Bildt, Paul Esser

Outline: Peter Munk, a poor charcoal burner, lives with his mother in The Black Forest. Poverty prevents him from marrying Lisbeth, the girl he loves. When he comes across the Little Glass Man, the ...

The Furies

Directed by: Anthony Mann

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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.