Posts
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
[edit]
C-G
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
