Dracula (1958)
June 6, 2026
Hammer's 1958 Dracula made the vampire physical, sexual, and bloody. Christopher Lee plays Dracula, and the performance redefined the role.
Films released between 1950 and 1959, when television arrived and the studios answered with everything the small screen could not do: widescreen, colour, spectacle and scale. The decade also produced the atomic-anxiety science fiction, the last great westerns of the classical mode, and the beginning of the teenager as a subject. The reviews here look at what the competition with television actually changed on screen.
1950sJune 6, 2026
Hammer's 1958 Dracula made the vampire physical, sexual, and bloody. Christopher Lee plays Dracula, and the performance redefined the role.
1950sMay 19, 2026
White Christmas is Michael Curtiz's 1954 American musical depicting two World War II Army veterans turned singing act, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, who follow a sister act to a Vermont inn and discover the inn belongs to their former…
1950sMay 19, 2026
Alastair Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge. Sim's Scrooge is the definitive screen version of the character.
1950sMay 19, 2026
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. Foundation for Pulp Fiction's briefcase.
1950sMay 19, 2026
The genre's late masterpiece. Touch of Evil is Orson Welles's 1958 American film noir adapting Whit Masterson's 1956 novel Badge of Evil.
1950sMay 19, 2026
Kubrick's 1957 WWI French army drama. Kirk Douglas defends three soldiers court-martialed for cowardice.
1950sMay 19, 2026
Kurosawa's 1958 medieval adventure. Mifune as general, two bumbling peasants.
1950sMay 19, 2026
Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, brief Marilyn Monroe. The original ensemble heist film.
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1950sMay 19, 2026
Kubrick's 1956 racetrack robbery. Non-linear structure that became Tarantino's vocabulary.
1950sMay 19, 2026
Jules Dassin's 1955 French heist. Thirty-two-minute silent jewelry heist sequence.
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