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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Enforcer, The (1950)- Dir. Bretaigne Windust
Feat. Humphrey Bogart - Gripping, well–characterized crime drama leads D.A. Humphrey Bogart into the seedy underworld to trail the leader of a notorious murder ring.
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…
Gone to Earth (1950)- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack - Marvellous Technicolor evocation of the rustic Welsh border–country, set around Jennifer Jones’ entry into the world of passionate desire and…
Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life (TV Series) (1950-1961)- Feat. Groucho Marx
- Legendary TV quiz show featuring the iconic Marx Brother, questioning, sparring and toying with various contestants. Despite the format, verbal…
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