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Subgenre Sampler
Outrage (1950)- Dir. Ida Lupino
Feat. Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke - One of the earliest post–Code Hollywood films to deal with the subject of rape, this black–and–white B–movie follows a young…
Panic in the Streets (1950)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes… - Early New Orleans–set Kazan noir, follows the hunt for a killer who may be spreading a bubonic plague. Tense, detailed examination of morality…
Petty Girl, The (1950)- Dir. Nat Perrin
Feat. Constance Cummings - Robert Cummings stars in this comedy–musical as an artist who causes a scandal through his choice of model.
Rio Grande (1950)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson - Concluding instalment of John Ford's cavalry trilogy has John Wayne in more trouble with Indians on the Mexican border. Even minor Ford stands tall.
Rocketship X-M (1950)- Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. Lloyd Bridges - Lloyd Bridges leads a bunch of wisecracking astronauts to the moon, only they get diverted to Mars! Prototype sci–fi cheapie rolls out the…
Scandal (Shubun) (1950)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Takashi Shimura… - This excellent early Kurosawa, has Mifune playing a painter who becomes acquainted with a pop–singer, and thus the target of a tabloid…
So Long at the Fair (1950)- Dir. Antony Damborough, Terence Fisher
Feat. Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson… - Spooky urban legend gets the cinematic treatment in this accomplished chiller. At the 1896 World Fair in Paris two siblings check into a hotel, in…
Stage Fright (1950)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding… - Aspiring actress Jane Wyman investigates her friend's claims of innocence after he's imprisoned for murder. A polished job from Hitch, notable for a…
Story of a Love Affair (Cronaca di un amore) (1950)- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Lucia Bose, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi - Although more stylistically conventional than his 'mature' films, dir. Antonioni's debut feature is a strongly delivered, almost film noir,…
Stromboli (1950)- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Ingrid Bergman - After his neo–realist masterpieces, this is one of the dir.'s best films, concerning a WW2 refugee who hastily marries an Italian fisherman and…
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