151. 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.
152. Summertime
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Lean
Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari Aldon, Jane Rose
Plot: An American tourist arrives in Venice. She contends with everything from the stereotypical uncultured Americans to the amorous advances of an Italian.
153. Pal Joey
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Sidney
Actors: Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols, Bobby Sherwood, Hank Henry
Plot: A handsome singer, and A-number one heel, Joey Evans meets up with former chorus girl Vera Simpson - a widowed vamp - finds his plans going up in smoke when Linda English - a proper, sweet girl, also enters his life.
154. Tokyo Twilight ( Tôkyô boshoku )
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Actors: Ineko Arima, Kamatari Fujiwara, Setsuko Hara, Nobuo Nakamura, Chishu Ryu, Kinzo Shin
Plot: Two sister live with their father - the youngest is involved with an affair and finds herself pregnant while the eldest has recently left her husband, her child in tow. When their mother, long thought dead, suddenly re-enters their lives, both sisters have different reactions - even after learning her full story.
155. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, George Winslow, Tommy Noonan
Plot: Two women, singers on a transatlantic cruise to Paris, while a private detective pursues one of them and both find plenty of eligible bachelors aboard the ship.
156. The Crimson Pirate
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Siodmak
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter, Leslie Bradley
Plot: Classic swashbuckling action as a sword-fighting, acrobatic pirate finds intrigue amongst the Caribbean revolution in the 1700s.
157. Geisha, A ( Gion bayashi )
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Actors: Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu, Saburo Date, Sumao Ishihara, Midori Komatsu
Plot: In post-war Kyoto, a geisha takes on an apprentice. One year later, she is ready to debut, but they need a large sum of money first. The money comes from a tea-house owner, who in return borrowed it from a businessman, who fancies the new geisha while wanting to trade the older to conclude another business deal. But the two geisha women have their own idead.
158. House of Wax
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: André De Toth
Actors: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Charles Bronson, Paul Picerni
Plot: A disfigured sculptor opens his own house of wax where the figures are life-like for a very good reason: he's stealing bodies to create his art.
159. Edge of the City
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Martin Ritt
Actors: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden, Ruby Dee, Val Avery, Kathleen Maguire
160. Hit the Deck
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roy Rowland
Actors: Jane Powell, Tony Martin, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Pidgeon, Vic Damone, Ann Miller
Plot: When Danny Smith comes home on shore leave, he and his two buddies find his sister in what could be a compromising situation. Without asking questions, they try to save her and end up on the run from the shore patrol.
