Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
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.
At War With The Enemy (1950)
- Dir. Hal Walker
Feat. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis
- After stealing the show in MY FRIEND IRMA, the duo of Martin and Lewis took centre stage here for the first time, enveloped in the potential madness…
Bitter Springs (1950)
- Dir. Ralph Smart
Feat. Chips Rafferty, Tommy Trinder
- Racially dubious Australian bush western about a 20th century settler (Chips Rafferty) trying to make a living off land shared by an Aboriginal tribe.
Blue Lamp, The (1950)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Patrick Doonan, Jack Warner
- A confident, precisely–judged thriller set in post–war London, with feral petty–crooks Dirk Bogarde and Patrick Doonan being hunted…
Born Yesterday (1950)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
- Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her role as the 'dumb' blonde mistress of a ruthless tycoon who takes up English lessons, falls for her teacher, then…
Broken Arrow (1950)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget
- This influenced a trend in offering a more sympathetic view of Indian culture. James Stewart is amiable as always as an army scout who arbitrates…
Cisco Kid, The (TV Series) (1950-1956)
- Feat. Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo
- A generous selection of episodes from the 1950s TV Western serial, in which the semi–masked 'Cisco Kid' (Renaldo) redistributes justice and…