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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Miracle in Milan (1950)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Paolo Stoppa - Memorable foray into satirical fantasy for dir. de Sica, in which a hobo philanthropist is given the power to work miracles in the…
Odette (1950)- Dir. Herbert Wilcox
Feat. Dame Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring… - Drama based on the true story of Odette Sansom, the British Special Operations Executive agent in WWII who miraculously evaded death after being sent…
Outrage (1950)- Dir. Ida Lupino
Feat. Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke - One of the earliest post–Code Hollywood films to deal with the subject of rape, this black–and–white B–movie follows a young…
Scandal (Shubun) (1950)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Takashi Shimura… - This excellent early Kurosawa, has Mifune playing a painter who becomes acquainted with a pop–singer, and thus the target of a tabloid…
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…
Summer Interlude (1950)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin - Perhaps Bergman's first significant work, about an aging ballerina who reflects on a youthful romance with her now–deceased lover in moody…
Sunset Boulevard (1950)- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim… - Faded screen vamp Gloria Swanson and screenwriter William Holden exploit each other mercilessly in this searing dissection of Hollywood decadence,…
Three Secrets (1950)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman - Three women exchange handkerchiefs and spill their secrets while awaiting news of their children after a plane crashes. You may need the tissues…
All the King's Men (1949)- Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge - Broderick Crawford brilliantly plays a well intentioned but bullheaded Southern senator whose thirst for power sets him on the road to ruin. Fine…
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