Subgenre Sampler
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Enforcer, The (1950)
- Dir. Bretaigne Windust
Feat. Humphrey Bogart
- Gripping, well–characterized crime drama leads D.A. Humphrey Bogart into the seedy underworld to trail the leader of a notorious murder ring.
Flame and the Arrow, The (1950)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Nick Cravat
- Middling, though colourful medieval epic with Lancaster leading as a 'Robin Hood' who leads the peasants of Lombardy into a revolt against the local…
Gone to Earth (1950)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack
- Marvellous Technicolor evocation of the rustic Welsh border–country, set around Jennifer Jones’ entry into the world of passionate desire and…
Kim (Rudyard Kipling's Kim) (1950)
- Dir. Victor Saville
Feat. Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas…
- Adventure based on the classic Rudyard Kipling novel of the same name, set during the British Raj in India, where the orphan of a British soldier…
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. James Cagney, Ward Bond, Luther Adler
- Hard gangster flick about an escaped con who blackmails, betrays and murders his way through a robbery scam. Hits the mark with a great script and…
Magnet, The (1950)
- Dir. Charles Frend
Feat. Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox
- After tricking a school–chum out of a toy magnet, an 11yr–old James Fox gets the guilts and resolves to 'do good'. Quirkily…
Men, The (1950)
- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane…
- Famous as Marlon Brando's film debut, playing a paraplegic war veteran struggling to come to terms with post–war life. Brando's smouldering…
Petty Girl, The (1950)
- Dir. Nat Perrin
Feat. Constance Cummings
- Robert Cummings stars in this comedy–musical as an artist who causes a scandal through his choice of model.
Rocketship X-M (1950)
- Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. Lloyd Bridges
- Lloyd Bridges leads a bunch of wisecracking astronauts to the moon, only they get diverted to Mars! Prototype sci–fi cheapie rolls out the…
Stromboli (1950)
- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Ingrid Bergman
- After his neo–realist masterpieces, this is one of the dir.'s best films, concerning a WW2 refugee who hastily marries an Italian fisherman and…