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Subgenre Sampler
Tales of Hoffmann, The (1951)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Moira Shearer, Pamela Brown, Sir Robert Helpmann… - Boldly visual imagining of Offenbach's 1880 opera which takes three tales of magic and deception by E.T. Hoffmann and weaves them into a disquieting…
Thing, The (The Thing From Another World) (1951)- Dir. Christian Nyby
Feat. Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite - Howard Hawksian macho men in leather tussle it out with men in cardies over how to protect themselves from the abomidable alien outside in the snow.…
When Worlds Collide (1951)- Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen… - When Earth faces imminent and total destruction from an errant star, scientists must organise an evacuation in time to save the human race. Thrilling…
A Christmas Wish (The Great Rupert) (1950)- Dir. Irving Pichel
Feat. Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake - Holiday classic about a down and out family at Christmas who discover they have a squirrel guardian angel living in their rafters.
All About Eve (1950)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders… - Bette Davis is in her element as ageing Broadway star Margot Channing, under threat of the hidden menace of an ambitious young actress. A scathing…
American Geurrilla In The Phillipines (I Shall Return) (1950)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Tyrone Power, Micheline Presle - War film from Fritz Lang following a group of American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after a motor torpedo boat is destroyed by Japanese…
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Betty Hutton, Howard Keel - The much–filmed story of Annie Oakley, star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, is the subject of this Irving Berlin musical, with Betty Hutton…
Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Marilyn Monroe - Brute force and eloquent dishonesty intersect as different walks of low–life are helplessly drawn to the ultimate heist, engineered by German…
Astonished Heart, The (1950)- Dir. Terence Fisher, Antony Damborough
Feat. Sir Noel Coward, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton… - Noel Coward stars in this adaptation of his play; a drawing–room melodrama about a married psychiatrist who unhappily succumbs to the wiles of…
At War with the Army (1950)- Dir. Hal Walker
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin - The first of many films Martin and Lewis made together, here the duo go from one mishap to another in an army training camp in World War II.
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