11. Winchester '73
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, Stephen McNally
Plot: In two parallel stories - a man is on the trail of a stolen rifle he won in a contest while we follow the story of the rifle itself as it switches many hands.
12. Gigi
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacqueline Audry
Actors: Gaby Morlay, Jean Tissier, Yvonne de Bray, Franck Villard, Paul Demange, Madeleine Rousset
Plot: A teen raised to be a demimondaine isn't ready to step into that role until she becomes involved with a rich playboy and finds the perfect opportunity to perfect that role.
13. In a Lonely Place
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas Ray
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Jeff Donnell
Plot: Bogart stars as a boozy, moody Hollywood screenwriter who may or may not be a twisted murderer.
14. Orpheus ( Orphée )
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Cocteau
Actors: Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares, Marie Déa, Henri Crémieux, Juliette Gréco
Plot: The young poet is introduced to The Princess - death itself, and becomes ensnared by her. His wife, Eurydice, wants to tell him of her pregnancy but is ignored - and is killed a short time later. Orpheus wants to save he and goes through a mirror to the Underworld. Once there, The Princess agrees they can leave together - provided Orpheus leads the way and never looks back on his wife until they have exited the Underworld.
15. Summer Stock
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Walters
Actors: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Ray Collins
Plot: Jane Falbury runs a New England farm and, giving her actress friend Abigail a hand - allows her troupe to use her barn as a theater. Things get complicated when Judy falls for the director - a man who is engaged to the leading lady, Abigail.
16. Rio Grande
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr., Harry Carey Jr., Chill Wills
Plot: Union officer Kirby Yorke takes on the Apaches, and attempts to mend his own broken family, at an outpost on the Rio Grande.
17. Rabbit of Seville
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Chuck Jones
Actors: Mel Blanc
Plot: An interesting rendition of "The Barber of Seville" in which Bugs Bunny cares for Elmer
Fudd's face and hairless head.
18. Scandal ( Shubun )
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku, Eitarô Ozawa, Takashi Shimura
Plot: A Japanese industrialist is so obsessed by fear of a nuclear attack that he plots to give up everything he has built and relocate his family to Brazil. A study of postwar upheaval in Japan - cultural, generational, ideological.
19. The Furies
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Gilbert Roland, Thomas Gomez
Plot: The Furies ranch is run by the iron-fisted T.C. Jeffords, who considers himself a Napoleon-like figure. His firebrand daughter, Vance, is set to inherit the ranch one day but is complicated by Rip Darrow, a saloon owner she fancies who is seeking revenge for land T.C. stole years before and a gold-digging woman who captures T.C.'s eye.
20. Born Yesterday
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden, Howard St. John, Frank Otto, Larry Oliver
Plot: The loud, brash and uncouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock comes to Washington D.C. looking to pocket a Congressman or two. His mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn, needs to be taught how to fit into to more high-class society, so he hires a tutor, Paul Verrall to soften up her rough edges. Yet the more Billie learns, the more she realizes what a brute her husband really is - and starts to fall for her tutor instead.
