Scrooge (1951)
Alastair Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge. Sim's Scrooge is the definitive screen version of the character.
1950sAlastair Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge. Sim's Scrooge is the definitive screen version of the character.
1950sMickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. Foundation for Pulp Fiction's briefcase.
1950sThe genre's late masterpiece. Touch of Evil is Orson Welles's 1958 American film noir adapting Whit Masterson's 1956 novel Badge of Evil.
1950sKubrick's 1957 WWI French army drama. Kirk Douglas defends three soldiers court-martialed for cowardice.
1950sKurosawa's 1958 medieval adventure. Mifune as general, two bumbling peasants.
1950sSterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, brief Marilyn Monroe. The original ensemble heist film.
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1950sKubrick's 1956 racetrack robbery. Non-linear structure that became Tarantino's vocabulary.
1950sJules Dassin's 1955 French heist. Thirty-two-minute silent jewelry heist sequence.
1950sNicholas Ray's 1955 James Dean defining role. Chickie run, planetarium, foundation of every teen film since.
1950sJohn Huston's 1951 WWI East Africa adventure. Bogart and Hepburn down a river to torpedo a German gunboat.
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