Favorite 50's Movie

[HoopsTournament]

No, I wasn't alive in the 50's. But I love Classic Movies. Here is a list of my favorites:

12 Angry Men
All About Eve
Dial M for Murder
Harvey
North by Northwest
Spirit of St. Louis
Witness for the Prosecution
Anatomy of a Murder
Rear Window
Some Like it Hot

 

[Acylum]

That's a pretty good list. Some of those I've never seen but would still like to. Rear Window is excellent. Was "Rope" made in the 50s also?

 

[CycloneYoda]

Godzilla

 

[Jambalaya]

No, I wasn't alive in the 50's. But I love Classic Movies. Here is a list of my favorites:

12 Angry Men
All About Eve
Dial M for Murder
Harvey
North by Northwest
Spirit of St. Louis
Witness for the Prosecution
Anatomy of a Murder
Rear Window
Some Like it Hot

Rear Window
Vertigo
A Christmas Carol (1951 Scrooge version)

Hitchcock (per his Will) had some of his classics locked for years after his death. They were re-released in the 80's, and I got to see Vertigo and Rear Window on the big screen at the 2nd 'premiere' go-around at the Chicago Theater on Michigan Ave.

Who wouldn't fall in love with Grace Kelly in Rear Window? Unbelievable beauty in that movie

 

[HoopsTournament]

That's a pretty good list. Some of those I've never seen but would still like to. Rear Window is excellent. Was "Rope" made in the 50s also?

Rope is 1948.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Godzilla - the Japanese version

Forbidden Planet - can't go wrong with a guy name Will Shakespeare wrote your screenplay

North by Northwest - not really a contest, this is the best one of the decade

Some Like It Hot - it jiggles

Bridge Over the River Kwai

Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments - Charlton Heston was the man

The Day the Earth Stood Still - 50s science fiction was pretty killer from top (this) to bottom (campy awesome)

Throne of Blood, and about four other Kurosawa films, for that matter

Good decade.

 

[HoopsTournament]

I think the 50's is the second best decade for movies after the 80's.

 

[TykeClone]

North by Northwest - not really a contest, this is the best one of the decade

Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments - Charlton Heston was the man

North by Northwest - excellent - and shows the difference in drinking & driving laws between then and now.

Ben-Hur - watched that once on TNT. I think it took about 8 hours.

 

[Dryburn]

Great lists. I might add:

Harvey
On the Waterfront
All About Eve
Some Like It Hot
Old Yellar
A Streetcar Named Desire
Shane
From Here to Eternity
Marty
Giant (James Dean)
The Seven Year Itch (Marilyn Monroe)
Stalag 17

Yes, I was alive in the 50's but much too young to see most of these then.

 

[Bret44]

Rebel Without a Cause
HOndo
Rio Bravo
Island in the Sky
10 Commandments
PETER PAN - Second star from the right, and straight on til morning.

 

[CRcyclone6]

Old Yeller and Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (Fess Parker)

 

[cyclones500]

"Strangers on a Train."

 

[HoopsTournament]

"Strangers on a Train."

That is a good one too. So many good Hitchcock movies. Vertigo is another one I liked, but I didn't think those two were as strong as Dial M, NbyNW and Rear Window. But I love Hitchcock.

 

[HFCS]

Seven Samurai

favs already mentioned:
Ben Hur
The Bridge on the River Kwai

 

[HoopsTournament]

There are 16 50's movies on AFI's Top 100 list from 2007.

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here are the list of the ones from the 50's (and which ones I have watched).

5	Singin' in the Rain	Yes
9	Vertigo	Yes
12	The Searchers	Yes
16	Sunset Boulevard	Yes
19	On the Waterfront	No
22	Some Like It Hot	Yes
27	High Noon	No
28	All About Eve	Yes
36	The Bridge on the River Kwai	No
45	Shane	Yes
47	A Streetcar Named Desire	Yes
48	Rear Window	Yes
55	North by Northwest	Yes
65	The African Queen	No
87	12 Angry Men	Yes
100	Ben-Hur	No