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Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
- Dir. Michael Gordon
Feat. Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers
- The original film version of the famous French fable with Jose Ferrer in Academy Award–winning form as Cyrano, the 17th Century poet and…
D.O.A. (1950)
- Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Edmond O'Brien
- Edmund O'Brien finds himself the victim of a slow poison and sets about finding his own murderer. Impressively detailed film noir uses location…
Damned Don't Cry, The (1950)
- Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran…
- Loosely based on the relationship between Bugsy Siegel and Virginia Hill, this riveting film tells of a New York socialite's involvement with an…
Destination Moon (1950)
- Dir. Irving Pichel
Feat. John Archer, Warner Anderson, Dick Wesson…
- Prescient sci–fi film that deals with the practical scientific and engineering challenges of space travel and to speculate on what a manned…
Diary of a Country Priest (Journal D'Un Cure De Campagne) (1950)
- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Claude Laydu
- Compelling and uncompromising – this adaptation of Georges Bernanos' classic French novel is one of dir. Bresson's best examinations of the…
Father of the Bride (1950)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor
- The original comedy in which the affable Spencer Tracy gets his knickers in a twist when young daughter Elizabeth Taylor decides to tie the knot.
Flame and the Arrow, The (1950)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Nick Cravat
- Middling, though colourful medieval epic with Lancaster leading as a 'Robin Hood' who leads the peasants of Lombardy into a revolt against the local…
Francesco giullare di Dio (Francis, God's Jester; The Flowers of St Francis) (1950)
- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Aldo Fabrizi
- Following after dir. Rossellini's more obviously left–wing films (ROME OPEN CITY, PAISA), this unusual biopic would prove a transition work to…
Fuller Brush Girl, The (1950)
- Dir. Lloyd Bacon
Feat. Lucille Ball
- Slapstick comedy with Lucille Ball playing a quirky receptionist who loses her job and goes to great lengths to secure new employment as a…
Furies, The (1950)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston, Wendell Corey
- Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston lock horns in this colossal, psychosexual western, notable for its Oedipal complex and Freudian horseplay. Anthony…