31. Stalag 17
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: William Holden, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Don Taylor
Plot: At a POW camp during WWII a possible German spy may have been uncovered, but who is it?
32. Harvey
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Henry Koster
Actors: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Jesse White, William H. Lynn, Charles Drake
Plot: A man who claims to see a full size bunny as his friend, has his family
try to commit him to an insane asylum only to have themselves committed.
Comedy.
33. Touch of Evil
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Orson Welles
Actors: Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Cook Moore
Plot: Set in a border town of Mexico, a battle between good cop and bad cop, in which corruption is the main plot point.
34. Rio Bravo
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Dean Martin, John Wayne, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ricky Nelson, Ward Bond
Plot: A group of unimpressive men take on a series of gunfighters to protect a small town.
35. Tokyo Story ( Tôkyô monogatari )
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Actors: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Chieko Higashiyama, Kuniko Miyake
Plot: An older couple head to Tokyo to visit their children and grandchildren, but are greeted with indifference and shipped off to a resort in this touching meditation on the sorrows of growing older.
36. The Ten Commandments
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Actors: Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Yul Brynner, Nina Foch, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo
Plot: One of Charlton Hesston's great roles as Moses along side Yul Brynner as Ramsey. An epic tale of Moses being cast away by the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramese and trying to fulfill his destiny of freeing the Jews from bondage.
37. Nights of Cabiria ( notti di Cabiria, Le )
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Giulietta Masina, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray, François Périer, Aldo Silvani, Ennio Girolami
Plot: A prostitute sets herself up in Rome looking for true love only to be disappointed.
38. Sabrina
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, John Williams, Walter Hampden, Martha Hyer
Plot: The daughter of a chauffeur goes to Paris to learn all about style. When
she comes home, those who ignored her before are quite surprised to learn
it's her...Sabrina.
39. Road, The ( strada, La )
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere, Livia Venturini
Plot: A free spirited girl is sold by her poor mother to a cruel traveling entertainer.
40. Shane
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur, Jack Palance, Ben Johnson, Brandon De Wilde
Plot: A known gunfighter tries to calm himself down by locating to a small
family plot when he is tempted to go back to his old ways by the way he is
treated a the local town.
