101. An Affair to Remember
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Leo McCarey
Actors: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Cathleen Nesbitt, Robert Q. Lewis
Plot: Although each is already engaged to another, Nickie Ferrante and Terry
McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Tempting fate, they
agree to meet at the Empire State Building in six months if they still
feel the same way. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and
the lovers' future takes an uncertain turn.
102. White Christmas
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes
Plot: Following WWII, two soldiers form a successful song-and-dance team. They
meet up with a pair of sisters who form their own team and romance soon
follows. They end up at a Vermont Inn where they hope to use their talent
to help a former military commander - now the owner of the inn - to save
the struggling business.
103. Hiroshima, My Love ( Hiroshima mon amour )
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alain Resnais
Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson
Plot: A French actress in Hiroshima, for a film about peace, spends the night with a Japanese man. It reminds her of an earlier relationship she had in WWII with a German soldier.
104. Blackboard Jungle
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Brooks
Actors: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hayes
Plot: This film tells the story of a new teacher in a NYC inner city high
school, who earnestly tries to reach his students. This was the first film
to include rock music, Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" is played over
the opening credits.
105. The Long, Hot Summer
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Martin Ritt
Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Angela Lansbury, Richard Anderson
Plot: A man flees town after being accused of burning a barn in revenge. He
finds himself in Frenchman's Bend, MS - where he quickly establishes
himself as a connection the Varner family - who owns nearly everything in
town. Patriarch Will Varner is dealing both with his weak-willed son and
his unmarried daughter - who might not be single for long.
106. Moby Dick
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Huston
Actors: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice, Harry Andrews, Friedrich von Ledebur
Plot: Herman Melville's epic story comes to the big screen as Captain Ahab's obsession with hunting the while whale who claimed his leg will threaten his crew, his ship, his life and his sanity.
107. Limelight
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Charles Chaplin
Actors: Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Sydney Chaplin, Norman Lloyd
Plot: An old popular comedian named Calvero saves the life of a dancer named
Thereza Ambrose, alias Terry. They share stories and become acquainted
with each other.
108. The Nun's Story
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Dean Jagger, Mildred Dunnock
Plot: A young woman leaves her prominent family behind in order to take her vows. Yet these vows are often tested - in the Congo she works with a brilliant but atheist doctor and when she is called home to France as WWII breaks out she, like the other nuns in her order, are forbidden from taking sides.
109. Ballad of Narayama ( Narayama bushikô - 1958 )
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Actors: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa, Seiji Miyaguchi, Keiko Ogasawara
110. Bad Day at Black Rock
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Sturges
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine
Plot: A one-handed man steps off the train in the small town of Black Rock, where the locals are less than helpful with strangers. Being refused a hotel room and a rental car - he knows the town is hiding a secret. When he mentions his purpose is to speak to a Japanese-American farmer, Kamoko, it opens up old wounds the town would rather forget - even if it means taking care of the problem with extreme force.
