111. 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.
112. 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
113. Rififi ( Rififi chez les hommes, Du )
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Pierre Grasset, Janine Darcey, Magali Noël, Robert Manuel
Plot: A group of aspiring men plan the perfect rip off on paper when human error
causes it to go wrong.
114. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke, Ted de Corsia
Plot: As ships begin to disappear at an alarming rate, a naturalist, along with his assistant and professional whaler are dispatched to find the cause and they discover not a creature but an advanced submarine.
115. 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.
116. Oliver Twist
Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Lean
Actors: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies, Mary Clare
Plot: Another version of Charles Dicken's classic tale about an orphan taken up by a gang of London pickpockets notable for Alec Guinness portraying their leader, Fagin.
117. A Star is Born
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan, Lucy Marlow
Plot: A movie star whose best days are behind him, stumbles upon showgirl Esther Blodgett and develops a friendship that blossoms into romance. Yet while her star is rising, his star continues to fall - and the relationship suffer.
118. Mister Roberts
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Betsy Palmer, Ward Bond
Plot: Mister Roberts is aboard a US cargo ship, working in the Pacific during WWII. Roberts wants to get into the action. Trouble is, the captain of the ship, is a tyrant, and isn't willing to sign Roberts' transfer requests.
119. The Bad and the Beautiful
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Actors: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Gloria Grahame, Barry Sullivan
Plot: Three people in the movie biz recount how they'll never work with producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) again.
120. Flowers of St. Francis, The ( Francesco, giullare di Dio )
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Actors: Gianfranco Bellini, Aldo Fabrizi, Pino Locchi, Peparuolo, Fra' Severino Pisacane, Roberto Sorrentino
Plot: Follows the exploits of a group of monks following St. Francis - presented in a series of unconnected vignettes shot in the neo-realist style (using actual monks rather than professional actors).
