171. The Big Heat
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Jeanette Nolan
Plot: Dave Bannion is a tough but honest cop - and is on the trail of gang he
believe has its hooks in the police department. The deeper he gets, the
more dangerous it gets - until his own wife takes the fall for a bomb mean
for him. Now seeking vengeance - he teams with a gangster's spurned
girlfriend - not realizing both are falling further into a trap.
172. 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.
173. All That Heaven Allows
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Douglas Sirk
Actors: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Gloria Talbott, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey
Plot: An upper-class widow finds herself falling for a man considered beneath her station - much the chagrin of her children and the country club set she mingles with.
174. Daddy Long Legs
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Negulesco
Actors: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark, Charlotte Austin
Plot: While visiting France, millionaire Jervis Pendelton becomes enchanted by an 18-year-old orphan. Fully aware of the age difference, he instead provides money for her to attend college in New England. For three years she writes him letter - and for three years he ignores them. When he finally decides to visit and watch her dance, he finally realizes his love cannot be contained. But coming together is not as straight-forward as he imagined.
175. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Sturges
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Dennis Hopper, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland
Plot: Lawman Wyatt Earp must join forces with outlaw Doc Holliday, and the unlikely alliance culminates in the legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral.
176. 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.
177. The Young Lions
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Actors: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, Maximilian Schell
178. Kiss Me Deadly
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Cloris Leachman, Jack Elam
Plot: L.A. private eye Mike Hammer picks up a female hitchhiker only to become involved in a twisted plot after she is killed for information. It could mean a big payday, if he can figure out the mystery and survive to use it.
179. The Vikings
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald, Alexander Knox
Plot: Two men, one a viking the other a slave, vie for the attention of a welsh princess.
180. Johnny Guitar
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas Ray
Actors: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Ward Bond, Ernest Borgnine, John Carradine
