181. Smiles of a Summer Night ( Sommarnattens leende )
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Margit Carlqvist, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jarl Kulle
Plot: In turn-of-the century Sweden, the lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his virginal, young wife Anne attend the theater where an old flame, the amoral actress Desiree, catches his eye. Wanting to see how things play out, she invites the couple, along with her lover, jealous Count Malcolm and his wife Charlotte, along with the lawyer's son Henrik who finds himself drawn to Anne.
182. 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.
183. 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.
184. 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.
185. 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.
186. 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 .
187. 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.
188. 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.
189. 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.
190. 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
