Friday, November 27, 2009

Young Man With A Horn Kirk Douglas

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_1950



'50 was a fertile year for films of all types and especially noir.
A-B
Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Note
8 Ball
Bunny

Chuck Jones
Looney
Tunes

Animation
Abbott
and Costello in the Foreign Legion

Charles Lamont
Abbott and Costello, Patricia Medina
Comedy
All
About Eve

Joseph L.
Mankiewicz

Bette Davis, Anne
Baxter
, Gary Merrill, Celeste
Holm
, Hugh Marlowe, George
Sanders
Drama
Academy
Award
for Best Picture
Ambush
Sam Wood
Robert Taylor, John
Hodiak
, Arlene Dahl
Western
Wood's last
film
American
Guerrilla in the Philippines

Fritz Lang
Tyrone
Power

War
aka I Shall Return in
UK
Annie Get Your
Gun

George Sidney
Betty
Hutton
, Howard Keel
Musical
Based on 1946 musical
Armored Car
Robbery

Richard
Fleischer

Charles McGraw, Adele
Jergens

Film Noir
Among first heist films
The Asphalt
Jungle

John Huston
Sterling Hayden, Louis
Calhern
, Sam Jaffe, James
Whitmore
, Jean Hagen, Marilyn Monroe
Film Noir
Based on novel of
same name

At War with the
Army

Hal Walker
Dean Martin, Jerry
Lewis

Musical comedy
Atom Man vs.
Superman

Spencer Gordon
Bennet

Kirk Alyn, Lyle
Talbot

Superhero
The Baron of
Arizona

Samuel Fuller
Vincent
Price
, Ellen Drew
Western
Big
House Bunny

Friz Freleng
Looney
Tunes

Animation
The Big
Lift

George Seaton
Montgomery Clift, Paul
Douglas

War
Shot on location in Berlin
Boobs in the
Woods

Robert McKimson
Looney
Tunes

Animation
Born to Be
Bad

Nicholas Ray
Joan
Fontaine
, Robert Ryan
Drama
Based on the novel
All Kneeling.
Born
Yesterday

George Cukor
William Holden, Judy
Holliday
, Broderick
Crawford

Musical comedy
Academy
Award
for Best Actress
Branded
Rudolph Maté
Alan Ladd, Mona
Freeman
, Charles Bickford
Western
Based on
novel Montana Rides Again
The Brave
Engineer

Jack Kinney
The King's Men
Animation
Walt
Disney
. Based on life of Casey Jones
The Breaking
Point

Michael Curtiz
John
Garfield
, PatriThe Breaking cia Neal
Film Noir
Based on novel To
Have and Have Not
Bright Leaf
Michael Curtiz
Gary
Cooper
, Lauren Bacall, Patricia
Neal

Drama
Based on 1949
novel
Broken
Arrow

Delmer Daves
James Stewart, Jeff
Chandler

Western
Bushy
Hare

Robert McKimson
Looney
Tunes

Animation
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Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Note
Caged
John
Cromwell

Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead
Film Noir
Adapted from
story Women Without Men
Canary Row
Friz
Freleng

Looney Tunes
Animation
Captain Carey,
U.S.A.

Mitchell Leisen
Alan Ladd, Wanda
Hendrix

Drama
Oscar for Best Song
("Mona Lisa")
The Capture
John
Sturges

Lew Ayres, Teresa
Wright

Drama
Champagne for
Caesar

Richard Whorf
Ronald
Colman
, Celeste Holm
Comedy
Cheaper by
the Dozen

Walter Lang
Clifton
Webb
, Myrna Loy
Comedy
Based on 1948 novel
Cinderella
3
directors
Ilene Woods
Animation
Walt
Disney

Cody of the Pony
Express

Spencer Gordon
Bennett

Jock O'Mahoney, Dickie Moore
Serial
Colt
.45

Edwin L. Marin
Randolph Scott, Ruth
Roman

Western
Followed by
TV series
Comanche
Territory

George Sherman
Maureen O'Hara, Macdonald Carey
Western
Convicted
Henry
Levin

Glenn Ford, Broderick
Crawford

Film Noir
Based on play The
Criminal Code
The Crime of
Korea

War
Korean War propaganda
Crisis
Richard Brooks
Cary
Grant
, José Ferrer
Drama
Based on short story
The Doubters

Cue Ball Cat
Hanna Barbera
Tom and
Jerry

Animation
Cyrano de
Bergerac

Michael Gordon
José
Ferrer
, Mala Powers
Drama
Oscar for Best
Actor
D.O.A.
Rudolph Maté
Edmond O'Brien, Pamela
Britton

Film Noir
The Damned Don't
Cry!

Vincent Sherman
Joan
Crawford
, David Brian
Film Noir
Based on story by
Gertrude Walker
Dark City
William Dieterle
Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott
Film Noir
Heston's first
film
A Date with Your
Family

Edward
G. Simmel

Ralph Hodges
Short
Desperadoes of the
West

Fred C. Brannon
Richard Powers, Judy Clark
Western
Destination
Moon

Irving Pichel
Dick
Wesson

Science
Fiction

Devil's Doorway
Anthony
Mann

Robert Taylor, Louis
Calhern

Western
Dopey
Dicks

Edward Bernds
Three Stooges
Comedy
Duchess of Idaho
Robert Z.
Leonard

Van Johnson, Esther Williams
Musical
The
Ducksters

Charles M. Jones
Looney
Tunes

Animation
Edge of
Doom

Mark Robson
Dana
Andrews
, Farley Granger
Film Noir
Fancy
Pants

George Marshall
Lucille
Ball
, Bob
Hope

Comedy
Father Is a
Bachelor

Abby
Berlin
, Norman
Foster

William Holden, Coleen
Gray

Romantic comedy
Father of
the Bride

Vincente
Minnelli

Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer
Tracy

Comedy
Remade in 1991
The File on Thelma
Jordon

Robert Siodmak
Wendell
Corey
, Barbara Stanwyck
Film Noir
The
Fireball

Tay Garnett
Mickey
Rooney
, Pat O'Brien
Drama
The Flame and the
Arrow

Jacques Tourneur
Burt
Lancaster
, Virginia Mayo
Adventure
Flying Disc Man
from Mars

Fred C. Brannon
Walter
Reed
, Lois Collier
Adventure
Serial
The Flying
Saucer

Mikel Conrad
Mikel
Conrad

Science
Fiction

First film with flying saucers
For Heaven's
Sake

George Seaton
Clifton
Webb
, Joan Bennett
Fantasy
Adapted from
play May We Come In?
Fortunes of
Captain Blood

Gordon Douglas
Louis
Hayward
, Patricia Medina
Adventure
Remake of
1935's Captain Blood
A Fractured
Leghorn

Robert McKimson
Foghorn Leghorn
Animation
The
Framed Cat

Hanna Barbera
Tom and
Jerry

Animation
Francis
Arthur
Lubin

Donald O'Connor, Patricia Medina
Comedy
Launched the
Talking Mule series
Frenchie
Louis
King

Shelley Winters, Joel
McCrea

Western
Loosely based
on Destry Rides
Again

The Fuller Brush
Girl

Lloyd Bacon
Lucille
Ball

Comedy
Cameo by Red
Skelton

The Furies
Anthony
Mann

Walter Huston
Western-Film Noir
Huston's last
performance
The Golden Gloves
Story

Felix E. Feist
James Dunn, Dewey Martin
Drama
Golden
Yeggs

I. Freleng
Looney
Tunes

Animation
Grandad of Races
André
de la Varre

Art Gilmore
Short
Oscar for Best Short
(1 Reel)
The Great Rupert
Irving
Pichel

Jimmy Durante, Tom Drake, Terry Moore
Comedy
Guilty Bystander
Joseph
Lerner

Zachary Scott, Faye
Emerson

Film Noir
Gun
Crazy

Joseph H. Lewis
Peggy
Cummins
, John Dall
Film Noir
aka Deadly Is the
Female
The
Gunfighter

Henry King
Gregory
Peck
, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Karl
Malden

Western
Gunman in the
Streets

Frank Tuttle
Dane
Clark
, Simone Signoret
Film Noir
Shot on location
in Paris
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H-M
Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Note
Harriet Craig
Vincent Sherman
Joan
Crawford

Drama
Based on the 1925
play Craig's Wife
Harvey
Henry
Koster

James
Stewart

Fantasy
Based on the
1944 play
High Lonesome
Alan Le
May

John Drew
Barrymore

Western
Highway 301
Andrew L. Stone
Steve
Cochran
, Virginia Grey
Film Noir
Hillbilly Hare
Robert McKimson
Looney
Tunes

Animation
The Hollywood
Ten

John
Berry

Documentary
Homeless
Hare

Chuck Jones
Looney
Tunes

Animation
House by the
River

Fritz Lang
Louis
Hayward
, Jane Wyatt
Film Noir
Hugs and
Mugs

Jules White
Three Stooges
Comedy
Hurdy-Gurdy Hare
Robert McKimson
Looney
Tunes

Animation
I Killed
Geronimo

John Hoffman
James Ellison, Chief
Thundercloud

Western
I'll Get By
Richard
Sale

June Haver, William Lundigan
Musical
In
Beaver Valley

James Algar
Winston Hibler
Short
Oscar for Best Short
(2 Reels)
In a Lonely
Place

Nicholas Ray
Humphrey Bogart, Gloria
Grahame

Film Noir
Adapted from 1947 novel
The Invisible
Monster

Fred C. Brannon
Richard Webb, Aline
Towne

Adventure
Serial
The Jackie
Robinson Story

Alfred E. Green
Jackie Robinson
Biography
Starring Robinson
as himself
The Jackpot
Walter
Lang

James Stewart, Barbara
Hale

Comedy
Features a young Natalie
Wood

Jerry and the
Lion

Hanna Barbera
Tom and
Jerry

Animation
Jerry's Cousin
Hanna Barbera
Tom and
Jerry

Animation
Julius
Caesar

David
Bradley

Harold
Tasker
, Charlton Heston
Drama
Shot in Chicago
The Killer
That Stalked New York

Earl
McEvoy

Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin
Film Noir
Based on Cosmo
article
Kill the Umpire
Lloyd
Bacon

William Bendix, William Frawley
Comedy
Kim
Victor
Saville

Errol Flynn, Dean
Stockwell

Adventure
Based on
the novel
King
Solomon's Mines

Compton Bennett
Deborah
Kerr
, Stewart Granger
Adventure
Based on
the 1885 novel
Kiss Tomorrow
Goodbye

Gordon
Douglas

James Cagney, Barbara Payton
Drama
A Lady Without
Passport

Joseph H. Lewis
Hedy
Lamarr
, John Hodiak
Film Noir
Shot in semidocumentary
style
A Life of Her
Own

George Cukor
Lana
Turner
, Ray Milland
Drama
Little
Quacker

Hanna Barbera
Tom and
Jerry

Animation
Louisa
Alexander Hall
Ronald
Reagan
, Spring Byington
Comedy
Piper
Laurie
's film debut
Love at First
Bite

Jules White
Three Stooges
Comedy
Love
Happy

David
Miller

Marx Brothers
Comedy
Last Marx Brothers
film
The
Magnificent Yankee

John Sturges
Louis
Calhern
, Ann Harding
Biographical
Based
on novel Mr. Justice Holmes
The Men
Fred
Zinnemann

Marlon Brando, Teresa
Wright

War
Brando's film
debut
The Miniver
Story

H.C. Potter
Greer
Garson
, Walter Pidgeon
Drama
Sequel to Mrs.
Miniver

Mister 880
Edmund Goulding
Burt
Lancaster
, Dorothy McGuire
Comedy
Motor
Mania

Jack Kinney
Goofy
Animation
Walt
Disney

Mutiny on the
Bunny

Friz Freleng
Looney
Tunes

Animation
My Friend Irma Goes
West

Hal
Walker

Dean Martin, Jerry
Lewis

Comedy
Sequel to My
Friend Irma

Mystery Street
John
Sturges

Ricardo Montalban, Sally
Forrest

Film Noir
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N-S
Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Note

Nancy Goes to
Rio

Robert Z.
Leonard

Ann Sothern, Jane
Powell

Musical
Remake of 1940's It's a
Date

Never a Dull
Moment

George Marshall
Irene
Dunne
, Fred MacMurray
Comedy
Based on the 1943
novel Who Could Ask For Anything More?
The Next Voice
You Hear...

William A.
Wellman

James Whitmore, Nancy
(Davis) Reagan

Drama
No Man of Her
Own

Mitchell Leisen
Barbara Stanwyck, John
Lund

Film Noir
Remade in 1996 as Mrs.
Winterbourne

No Way Out
Joseph L.
Mankiewicz

Richard Widmark, Linda
Darnell

Film Noir
Film debut of Sidney
Poitier

One Too Many aka Killer
with a Label
Erle C. Kenton
Ruth
Warrick

Drama
One Way Street
Hugo
Fregonese

James Mason, Märta Torén
Film Noir
Our Very
Own

David
Miller

Ann Blyth, Farley
Granger

Drama
Outrage
Ida
Lupino

Mala Powers, Tod
Andrews

Drama
Panic in the
Streets

Elia Kazan
Richard Widmark, Paul
Douglas

Film Noir
Shot in New
Orleans

Perfect
Strangers

Bretaigne
Windust

Ginger Rogers, Dennis
Morgan

Drama
Pirates of the High
Seas

Spencer Gordon
Bennet
, Thomas Carr
Buster
Crabbe
, Lois Hall
Serial
Pop 'im Pop
Robert McKimson
Looney
Tunes

Animation
Prehistoric
Women

Gregg C. Tallas
Laurette Luez, Allan
Nixon
Science
Fiction

Remade in 1967
Punchy
Cowpunchers

Edward Bernds
Three Stooges
Comedy
Puny
Express

Walter Lantz, Dick
Lundy

Woody the
Woodpecker

Animation
Quicksand
Irving
Pichel

Mickey Rooney, Peter
Lorre

Crime
Rabbit of
Seville

Charles M. Jones
Looney
Tunes

Animation
Rabbit's Moon
Kenneth
Anger

Looney Tunes
Animation
Riding
High

Frank Capra
Bing
Crosby
, Coleen Gray
Comedy
Remake of 1934's Broadway Bill.
Right
Cross

John Sturges
June
Allyson
, Ricardo
Montalban

Drama
Marilyn Monroe in small
role
Rio Grande
John
Ford

John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara
Western
Based on
story Mission With No Record
Rocketship X-M
Kurt
Neumann

Lloyd Bridges, Osa
Massen

Science
Fiction

Shot in 18 days
Rocky
Mountain

William Keighley
Errol
Flynn
, Patrice Wymore
War
Rogues of Sherwood
Forest

Gordon
Douglas

John Derek, Diana
Lynn

Drama
Safety
Second

Hanna Barbera
Tom and
Jerry

Animation
Saturday Evening
Puss

Hanna Barbera
Tom and
Jerry

Animation
The Scarlet
Pumpernickel

Charles M. Jones
Looney
Tunes

Animation
The Second Woman
James
V. Kern

Robert Young, Betsy
Drake

Film Noir
The
Secret Fury

Mel Ferrer
Claudette Colbert, Robert
Ryan

Film Noir
José
Ferrer
in uncredited role
Self-Made Maids
Jules
White

Three Stooges
Comedy
Shadow on the
Wall

Pat
Jackson

Ann Sothern, Zachary
Scott

Mystery
Based on Death
in the Doll's House
Side
Street

Anthony Mann
Farley
Granger
, Cathy O'Donnell
Film Noir
Slaphappy
Sleuths

Jules White
Three Stooges
Comedy
The Sleeping
City

George Sherman
Richard
Conte
, Coleen Gray
Film Noir
Shot in semidocumentary
style
A Snitch in Time
Edward
Bernds

Three Stooges
Comedy
So
Young, So Bad

Bernard Vorhaus
Paul
Henreid
, Catherine McLeod
Drama
The Sound of
Fury

Cy Endfield
Frank
Lovejoy
, Kathleen Ryan
Film Noir
aka Try and Get
Me
Southside 1-1000
Boris
Ingster

Don DeFore, Andrea
King
, George Tobias
Film Noir
The
Stairs

Nominated for Best Documentary Short
Stars In My
Crown

Jacques Tourneur
Joel
McCrea
, Ellen Drew
Western
Based on
novel of same name
Strife with
Father

Bob McKimson
Merry Melodies
Animation
Studio
Stoops

Edward Bernds
Three Stooges
Comedy
Sugar
Chile Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet

Will
Cowan

Billie Holiday, Frank
Robinson

Short
Summer
Stock

Charles Walters
Judy
Garland
, Gene Kelly
Musical
Garland's last
MGM film
Sunset
Boulevard

Billy Wilder
William Holden, Gloria
Swanson

Film Noir
Won 3 Academy Awards
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T-Z
Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Note
Tarzan and the
Slave Girl

Lee Sholem
Lex
Barker
, Vanessa Brown
Adventure
Tea for Two
David
Butler

Doris Day, Gordon
MacRae

Musical-Comedy
Based on musical No, No Nanette
Tension
John
Berry

Richard Basehart, Audrey
Totter
, Cyd Charisse
Film Noir
The Texan
Meets Calamity Jane

Ande Lamb
Evelyn Ankers
Western
Ankers' last
appearance for 10 years
Texas Tom
Hanna Barbera
Tom and
Jerry

Animation
Three Came Home
Jean
Negulesco

Claudette Colbert, Patric
Knowles

Drama
In public
domain

Three Hams on
Rye

Jules White
Three Stooges
Comedy
Three Little
Words

Richard Thorpe
Fred
Astaire
, Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen
Musical
Astaire won
first Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy
The Titan:
Story of Michelangelo

Robert J.
Flaherty

Fredric March
Documentary
Oscar
for Best Documentary Feature
The Toast of New
Orleans

Norman Taurog
Kathryn Grayson, Mario
Lanza

Musical
To
Please a Lady

Clarence Brown
Clark
Gable
, Barbara Stanwyck
Drama
Tom and
Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl

Hanna Barbera
Tom and
Jerry

Animation
Treasure
Island

Byron Haskin
Bobby
Driscoll
, Robert Newton
Adventure
Walt
Disney

Triple Crossed
Jules
White

Three Stooges
Comedy
Two
Flags West

Robert Wise
Joseph
Cotten
, Linda Darnell
War
Two Weeks with
Love

Roy
Rowland

Jane Powell, Ricardo
Montalban

Musical
Based on story
by John (Francis) Larkin
Under My Skin
Jean
Negulesco

John Garfield, Micheline Presle
Drama
Based on Hemingway short
story
The Underworld
Story

Cy Endfield
Dan
Duryea
, Herbert Marshall, Gale
Storm

Film Noir
Union Station
Rudolph Maté
William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald
Film Noir
Based on novel
Nightmare in Manhattan

Vendetta
Mel
Ferrer

Faith Domergue, George
Dolenz

Crime
Based on 1840
novella Colomba
Wabash Avenue
Henry
Koster

Betty Grable, Victor
Mature
, Phil Harris
Musical
Wagon
Master

John Ford
Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr.
Western
Followed by
TV series Wagon Train
Walk Softly,
Stranger

Robert
Stevenson

Joseph Cotten, Alida
Valli
, Spring Byington
Drama
What's Up
Doc?

Robert McKimson
Looney
Tunes

Animation
When Willie
Comes Marching Home

John Ford
Dan
Dailey
, Corinne Calvet
Comedy
Where Danger
Lives

John Farrow
Robert
Mitchum
, Faith Domergue
Drama
Domergue's film
debut
Where the Sidewalk
Ends

Otto Preminger
Dana
Andrews
, Gene Tierney, Gary
Merrill

Film Noir
Based on novel
Night Cry
The White
Tower

Ted Tetzlaff
Glenn
Ford
, Alida Valli
Adventure
Based on
novel of same name
Why Korea?
Edmund
Reek
Joe
King

Documentary
Oscar
for Best Documentary, Short Subject
Winchester
'73

Anthony Mann
James Stewart, Dan
Duryea
, Shelley Winters
Western
Early roles
for Rock
Hudson
, Tony Curtis
With These Hands
Jack Arnold
Sam
Levene

Documentary
The
Wizard of Oz (TV Special)

Burr Tillstrom
Short
Adaptation using
puppets
Woman on the Run
Norman
Foster

Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe
Film Noir
The Yellow Cab
Man

Jack Donohue
Red
Skelton
, Gloria DeHaven
Comedy
Young Man with
a Horn

Michael Curtiz
Lauren
Bacall
, Doris Day, Kirk
Douglas

Drama
Based on
autobiography