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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Summer Interlude (1950)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin - Perhaps Bergman's first significant work, about an aging ballerina who reflects on a youthful romance with her now–deceased lover in moody…
Summer Stock (1950)- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken… - This technicolor musical was Judy Garland's final film for MGM as she struggled with many personal problems during filming. Garland plays a farm…
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim… - Faded screen vamp Gloria Swanson and screenwriter William Holden exploit each other mercilessly in this searing dissection of Hollywood decadence,…
Three Secrets (1950)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman - Three women exchange handkerchiefs and spill their secrets while awaiting news of their children after a plane crashes. You may need the tissues…
Treasure Island (Long John Silver) (1950)- Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney… - This definitive version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story was the first live–action feature from Disney studios, and contains…
Un Chant D'amour (A Song of Love) (1950)- Dir. Jean Genet
- Sole foray into cinema for French convict–turned–playwright Jean Genet is a brief and intense visual poem about the fantasies of…
Wagon Master, The (1950)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Ben Johnson - Pioneering saga starring Ben Johnson. A personal favourite of its director.
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Dana Andrews, Karl Malden, Gary Merrill… - In one of his keynote roles, Dana Andrews plays an over–aggressive cop on the dirty sidewalks of New York who takes matters into his own hands…
Winchester '73 (1950)- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Shelley Winters - Lean, mean, and superbly photographed, this helped repopularise the Western in the '50s. Stewart wins a rare 'perfect' rifle, which is subsequently…
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