Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Donen and Kelly's 1952 musical comedy about the talkie transition. Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds.
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1950s
1950sRear Window (1954)
Hitchcock's 1954 voyeurism thriller. Stewart immobilized in a wheelchair, Kelly, Burr across the courtyard.
1950sHemo the Magnificent (1957)
Frank Capra's 1957 Bell Labs educational film mixing live action and animation. Dr. Frank Baxter and a cartoon Hemo teach kids how blood works.
1950sHigh Noon (1952)
Fred Zinnemann's 1952 western shot in real time. The clock is the antagonist.
1950sThe Searchers (1956)
Wayne as Ethan Edwards, racism poisons his own rescue mission. The film that taught New Hollywood to subvert genre.
1950sRashomon (1950)
Kurosawa's 1950 film that gave English the word for unreliable narrative. Four versions of one crime, each true, each false.
1950sWhere the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Otto Preminger's 1950 film noir with Dana Andrews. Detective accidentally kills suspect then frames innocent man.
1950sWhen Worlds Collide (1951)
When Worlds Collide is the early-Cold War apocalypse film that established the planetary-impact template for the next seventy-five years. The screenplay by Sydney Boehm adapts the 1933 novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie.
1950sThem! (1954)
Ted Sherdeman wrote, from a story by George Worthing Yates. The film made approximately two million dollars at initial release on a two hundred thousand dollar budget.
1950sThe Seventh Seal (1957)
The Seventh Seal is the foundational arthouse film and one of the great works of the twentieth century. Max von Sydow plays Antonius Block, a knight returning from the Crusades to a Sweden in the grip of the Black Death.
1950s20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
20 Million Miles to Earth is the Harryhausen film set in Italy. William Hopper plays Colonel Robert Calder, an astronaut.