Top Movies of 1950s


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241. Love Nest

Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Actors: June Haver, William Lundigan, Frank Fay, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Paar, Leatrice Joy

242. Equinox Flower ( Higanbana )

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Actors: Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga, Keiji Sada, Teiji Takahashi

243. 5 Fingers

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden, Oskar Karlweis, John Wengraf

244. Run Silent, Run Deep

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, Don Rickles, Nick Cravat
Plot: A captain survives the sinking of his sub. After a year relegated to a desk job, he finally is given command of another sub. Yet his dogged determination to sink the destroyer responsible for his original ship's destruction puts his crew in danger.

245. Seven Men from Now

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Budd Boetticher
Actors: Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin, Walter Reed, John Larch, Don 'Red' Barry
Plot: Aging lawman Ben Stride burns a trail of murderous revenge across a hardscrabble landscape searching for his wife's murderers.

246. Don't Bother to Knock

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Actors: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran, Jeanne Cagney, Lurene Tuttle
Plot: A couple unknowingly leave their child with a mentally unbalanced babysitter at a hotel.

247. Nazarin ( Nazarín )

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo, Jesús Fernández

248. Pork Chop Hill

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Milestone
Actors: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard, Carl Benton Reid, James Edwards
Plot: Grim story of one of the major battles of the Korean War. While negotiators are at work in Panmunjom trying to bring the conflict to a negotiated end, Lt. Joe Clemons is ordered to launch an attack and retake Pork Cop Hill. It's tough on the soldiers who know that the negotiations are under way and no one wants to die when they think it will all soon be over. The hill is of no particular strategic military value but all part of showing resolve during the negotiations. Under the impression that the battle has been won, battalion headquarters orders some of the men withdrawn when in fact they are in dire need of reinforcements and supplies. As the Chinese prepare to counterattack and broadcast propaganda over loudspeakers, the men prepare for what may be their last battle.

249. Vera Cruz

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Cesar Romero, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Denise Darcel

250. Warlock

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Actors: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels, DeForest Kelley

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