Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
My Blue Heaven (1950)
- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Dan Dailey, Betty Grable, David Wayne…
- Treacly musical concerns a variety show couple enduring all manner of misfortune as they try to create a family of their own.
Unusually bright…
Night and the City (1950)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers…
- An overlooked film noir gem that fires on all cylinders, marked above all by a sensationally giddy performance by Richard Widmark as a two–bit…
Odette (1950)
- Dir. Herbert Wilcox
Feat. Dame Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring…
- Drama based on the true story of Odette Sansom, the British Special Operations Executive agent in WWII who miraculously evaded death after being sent…
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.
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…