Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1950

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip50banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Top Films of 1950: World Premieres</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><br></Font> <Table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>1.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=alleve.html style="text-decoration:none">All About Eve</a></b></Font> Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Anne Baxter, Bette Davis, Gary Merrill <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>2.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=sunsblvd.html style="text-decoration:none">Sunset Boulevard</a></b></Font> Dir. Billy Wilder. With William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olson <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>3.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=inlonlyp.html style="text-decoration:none">In a Lonely Place</a></Font></b></Font> Dir. Nicholas Ray. With Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>4.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=caged.html style="text-decoration:none">Caged</a></b></Font> Dir. John Cromwell. With Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Hope Emerson <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>5.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=laronde.html style="text-decoration:none">La Ronde</a></b></Font> Dir. Max Oph&#252ls. With Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>6.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=cinder50.html style="text-decoration:none">Cinderella</a></b></Font> Dir. Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, and Hamilton Luske. Animated <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>7.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=rashomon.html style="text-decoration:none">Rash&#244mon</a></b></Font> Dir. Akira Kurosawa. With Toshir&#244 Mifune, Machiko Ky&#244, Masayuki Mori <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>8.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=bornyest.html style="text-decoration:none">Born Yesterday</a></b></Font> Dir. George Cukor. With Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font></TD></TR> </Table> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC"><b>Exemplary Shorts:</b></Font> <a href=chantdam.html style="text-decoration:none"><Font Face=Garamond><b>Un Chant d'amour</b></Font></a><br> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1950</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1> <Font Color="#009900">&#9733</Font> <b>= Full-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font> <b> = Capsule-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font> <b>&nbsp= Blog/Favorites Review</b> (New Window) </Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<a href=magyank.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Magnificent Yankee</b></a></Font> Dir. John Sturges. With Louis Calhern, Ann Harding, Eduard Franz <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1950</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Annie Get Your Gun</b></Font> Dir. George Sidney. With Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <a href=mr880.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Mister 880</b></a></Font> Dir. Edmund Goulding. With Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire, Edmund Gwenn <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <a href=outrage.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Outrage</b></a></Font> Dir. Ida Lupino. With Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Albert Mellen, Robert Clarke <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Rabbit's Moon</b></Font> Dir. Kenneth Anger. With Claude Revenant, Andr&#233 Soubeyran, Nadine Valence <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Also from 1950</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <a href=asphalt.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>The Asphalt Jungle</b></a></Font> Dir. John Huston. With Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern<br> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Still to Come from 1950</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Ten Most Enticing Prospects:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>D.O.A.</b></Font> Dir. Rudolph Mat&#233. With Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Furies</b></Font> Dir. Anthony Mann. With Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Harriet Craig</b></Font> Dir. Vincent Sherman. With Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Los Olvidados</b></Font> Dir. Luis Bu&#241uel. With Alfonso Mejia, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Stage Fright</b></Font> Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. With Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Michael Wilding<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Winchester '73</b></Font> Dir. Anthony Mann. With James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea<br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Further Research:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Breaking Point</b></Font> Dir. Michael Curtiz. With John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Broken Arrow</b></Font> Dir. Delmer Daves. With James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Cyrano de Bergerac</b></Font> Dir. Michael Gordon. With Jos&#233 Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Father of the Bride</b></Font> Dir. Vincente Minnelli. With Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Glass Menagerie</b></Font> Dir. Irving Rapper. With Gertrude Lawrence, Kirk Douglas, Jane Wyman<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Harvey</b></Font> Dir. Henry Koster. With James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Cecil Kellaway<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>King Solomon's Mines</b></Font> Dirs. Compton Bennett & Andrew Marton. With Deborah Kerr<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Miniver Story</b></Font> Dir. H.C. Potter. With Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Next Voice You Hear</b></Font> Dir. William Wellman. With James Whitmore, Nancy Davis<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Royal Wedding</b></Font> Dir. Stanley Donen. With Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Sarah Churchill<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Walk Softly, Stranger</b></Font> Dir. Robert Stevenson. With Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Spring Byington<br> </Table> <hr> <Font Face=Garamond> <table cellpadding=12><tr> <td>Trackbacks:</td> <td><strong><a href=movies47home.html target="_top">Permalink</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href=movies47.html target="_top">1950</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href=movarchs.html target="_top">Home</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href="http://blog.nicksflickpicks.com" target="_new">Blog</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href=email.html target="_top">E-Mail</a></strong></td> </tr></table> </Font> </center> </body>