161. Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice, The ( Ochazuke no aji )
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Actors: Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Koji Tsuruta, Chikage Awashima, Keiko Tsushima, Eijirô Yanagi
Plot: An upper-class woman finds herself becoming rather bored of her life to her rather dull middle-class husband (by arranged marriage) even while encouraging her niece to go along with her own arranged meetings.
162. Lust for Life
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn , James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane, Henry Daniell
Plot: Based on the life of Vincent Van Gogh - a brilliant artist and tortured genius who never found a connection with the people or women in his life, but still earns some respect while his brother, Theo, never gives up on him.
163. Hondo
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Farrow
Actors: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James Arness, Rodolfo Acosta
Plot: A cavalry dispatch rider, Hondo, meets up with a woman and her son living in Apache territory who think they are safe due to chief Vittorio having always left them alone. When Hondo kills her reprobate husband, he is forced to pretend to be her husband in order to prevent her from being forced into an Apache marriage, knowing all the time the truth will have to come out...
164. Monkey Business
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe, Henri Letondal
Plot: A chemist stumbles upon a formula that brings back youth - and after taking a dose, finds himself living the good life of teenager. But when his wife receives an even bigger dose, it opens the door for all kinds of trouble.
165. Diary of a Country Priest ( Journal d'un curé de campagne )
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Bresson
Actors: Jean Riveyre, Claude Laydu, Adrien Borel, Rachel Bérendt, Nicole Maurey, Nicole Ladmiral
Plot: A young priest takes over parish duties at Ambricourt. While the locals have trouble accepting him - he also battles a stomach disease. Despite the challenges, he does all he can to help the community.
166. The Man from Laramie
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Jack Elam, Alex Nicol
Plot: In a quest to find out who sold rifles to the Apaches that killed his
brother, Will Lockhart (James Stewart) comes across a cattle baron and his
arrogant son that may hold the key to his search.
167. Life of Oharu, The ( Saikaku ichidai onna )
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Actors: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai, Toshirô Mifune, Toshiaki Konoe, Kiyoko Tsuji
Plot: An aging prostitute, finding it harder and harder to attract any men - reflects on her life and how it came to be: once a lady-in-waiting at the Imperial Court, she found herself falling in love with a samurai - a man well below her station. Once discovered, her entire family was exiled and thus began her fall.
168. Bend of the River
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson, Lori Nelson, Jay C. Flippen
Plot: Glyn McLyntock and Emerson Cole are two men looking to escape their pasts and lead a group of homesteaders from Missouri to Oregon. They settle just outside Portland and, as winter approaches, they target supplies held by corrupt officials in order to secure their community. Yet once they have the supplies, Cole turns on McLyntock, planning to turn the supplies over the a gold mining camp for a hefty profit.
169. Funny Face
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Donen
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Ruta Lee, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng
Plot: Musical about high-fashion photography in Paris starring Audrey Hepburn as a newly-discovered fashion model.
170. High Society
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Walters
Actors: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund, Louis Calhern
