181. Rabbit of Seville
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Chuck Jones
Actors: Mel Blanc
Plot: An interesting rendition of "The Barber of Seville" in which Bugs Bunny
cares for Elmer Fudd's face and hairless head.
182. What's Opera, Doc?
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Chuck Jones
Actors: Mel Blanc
Plot: Bugs Bunny attempts to outwit the ever-persistent Elmer Fudd by tricking him into thinking
that he is the beautiful Brunnhilde .
183. Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl aka Summer with Monika ( Sommaren med Monika )
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke Fridell, Naemi Briese, Åke Grönberg
Plot: Wild, rebellions 17-year-oldl Monika shares an instant connection with 19-year-old Harry and their passion explodes during the summer heat on an isolated island. But life goes on - Monika becomes pregnant, they decide to marry and while Harry pursues a stable working-class life, Monika does not want to give up her fun.
184. Them!
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gordon Douglas
Actors: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens, Sean McClory
Plot: Early atomic experiments in the desert have given rise to a colony of
gigantic ants. A group of scientists along with the army must work
together to stop the menacing problem before it spreads.
185. Scandal ( Shubun )
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku, Eitarô Ozawa, Takashi Shimura
Plot: A Japanese industrialist is so obsessed by fear of a nuclear attack that he plots to give up everything he has built and relocate his family to Brazil. A study of postwar upheaval in Japan - cultural, generational, ideological.
186. The Furies
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Gilbert Roland, Thomas Gomez
Plot: The Furies ranch is run by the iron-fisted T.C. Jeffords, who considers himself a Napoleon-like figure. His firebrand daughter, Vance, is set to inherit the ranch one day but is complicated by Rip Darrow, a saloon owner she fancies who is seeking revenge for land T.C. stole years before and a gold-digging woman who captures T.C.'s eye.
187. Last Train from Gun Hill
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Sturges
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brad Dexter, Brian G. Hutton
Plot: Two best friends become bitter enemies after the son of a rich land baron
brutally rapes and murders the other’s wife.
188. The Desperate Hours
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin, Gig Young
Plot: Glen, Hal and Sam are three escaped convicts who move in on and terrorize
a suburban household.
189. Home Town Story
Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Arthur Pierson
Actors: Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, Marjorie Reynolds, Alan Hale Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Brown
190. Black Orpheus ( Orfeu Negro )
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Marcel Camus
Actors: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Fausto Guerzoni, Ademar Da Silva, Marcel Camus, Lourdes de Oliveira
Plot: The Greek myth of doomed lovers Orpheus and Eurydice, is transferred to a contemporary setting at the Carnivale in Rio de Janiero. It's a lively blend of sight and sound stimulation. This film won the Best Foreign Film Oscar.
