... The Forgettable ... Of The 1950s
by Akira_Chimera | created - 26 Mar 2011 | updated - 11 months ago | PublicFirst of all, most movies on this list are not really bad. But they are not good either. In order not to bore you with every average movie I have seen I will restrain myself only to those of interest. That means you will find movies here that were successful at the box office but did not deserve that undue success or movies that did not stand the test of time. Other entries concern movies that are acclaimed by critics but to me are nothing short of being pretentious. Other titles could include films that were much talked about for whatever reason upon their initial release and therefore hold some kind of reputation that, however, do not qualify them for quality movies. You may also find movies here to which famous actors or directors contributed to but which are a let-down in the end nevertheless.
So, have fun browsing through my selection of the odds and sods of the movie world and let me know what you think.
PS: This list is by no means complete as I will add new worthwhile films as I stumble across them.
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1. Wagon Master (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Western
Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond
Votes: 5,525
2. Dallas (1950)
Approved | 94 min | Western
A former Confederate officer hunting for an outlaw who wronged him finds him in Dallas, but now as a wealthy, respectable citizen.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey
Votes: 1,519
3. Singing Guns (1950)
Passed | 91 min | Western
Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sheriff's life and must wear two hats between his new job that he enjoys and his old occupation that he misses.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Vaughn Monroe, Ella Raines, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond
Votes: 471
4. Montana (1950)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Western
An Australian sheepman comes to Montana looking for grazing space, and is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.
Directors: Ray Enright, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall, Douglas Kennedy
Votes: 1,373
5. California Passage (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Western
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure an acquittal.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, Estelita Rodriguez, Jim Davis
Votes: 138
6. Saddle Tramp (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Western
A saddle tramp unexpectedly becomes foster parent to four children for whom he provides by working on a ranch that's embroiled in a feud with another ranch and cattle rustlers.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Joel McCrea, Wanda Hendrix, John Russell, John McIntire
Votes: 691
7. Sierra (1950)
Approved | 83 min | Western
A tomboy frontier lawyer finds an outlaw and his son hiding out from a false murder charge.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Audie Murphy, Wanda Hendrix, Burl Ives, Dean Jagger
Votes: 1,081
8. The Cariboo Trail (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Western
Montanans Jim Redfern and Mike Evans head into Canada's British Columbia via the Cariboo Trail intent to raise cattle and dig for gold but find trouble instead.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Randolph Scott, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Bill Williams, Karin Booth
Votes: 882
9. Colt .45 (1950)
Passed | 74 min | Western
Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Randolph Scott, Ruth Roman, Zachary Scott, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 1,126
10. The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Framed for murder during the Civil War, Gil Kyle's only alibi is Confederate agent Candace Bronson who he must track down in dangerous territory filled with foes.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Glenn Ford, Edmond O'Brien, Rhonda Fleming, Alan Reed
Votes: 389
11. The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
Passed | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Aline MacMahon
Votes: 4,236
12. Surrender (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Vera Ralston, John Carroll, Walter Brennan, Francis Lederer
Votes: 111
13. Copper Canyon (1950)
Passed | 84 min | Western
Performing sharpshooter Johnny Carter is asked to help a beleaguered group of copper miners.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Ray Milland, Hedy Lamarr, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman
Votes: 801
14. Rock Island Trail (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Western
Feud between the long-established stagecoach and steamship lines and the emergent railway companies trying to expand into the Midwest.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, Lorna Gray, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 233
15. The Kangaroo Kid (1950)
Approved | 72 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Tex Kinnane (Jock Mahoney as Jock O'Mahoney), posing as a stage driver, goes to Australia to investigate a series of robberies at Goldstar. He makes friends at the saloon with Baldy Muldoon... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Veda Ann Borg, Guy Doleman, Martha Hyer
Votes: 68
16. The Kid from Texas (1950)
Approved | 78 min | Western
In New Mexico, Billy the Kid is involved in the Lincoln County War, kills many rivals and eventually becomes a wanted fugitive.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Audie Murphy, Gale Storm, Albert Dekker, Shepperd Strudwick
Votes: 797
17. Kansas Raiders (1950)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy, Marguerite Chapman, Scott Brady
Votes: 1,352
18. Frenchie (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Western
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 569
19. Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
Not Rated | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky
Votes: 4,573
20. Stars in My Crown (1950)
Approved | 89 min | Family, Western
In 1865, the small Southern town of Walsburg has become so dangerous that Parson Josiah Doziah Gray gives his sermons while holding a gun.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale
Votes: 2,500
21. Rocky Mountain (1950)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In California during the Civil War, a Confederate patrol and a Union troop must set their differences aside in order to survive a Shoshone attack.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Scott Forbes, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Votes: 1,316
22. Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
When some of his crew are captured by the Spaniards in Rio De La Hacha, pirate Captain Peter Blood enters the city in disguise in order to free his men from Marquis De Riconete's prison.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya
Votes: 383
23. American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, War
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Tyrone Power, Micheline Presle, Tom Ewell, Robert Patten
Votes: 1,334
24. Lilli Marlene (1950)
74 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery
A French singer is captured by the Germans and made to broadcast for them.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott, Richard Murdoch, Leslie Dwyer
Votes: 153
25. Breakthrough (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, War
An American infantry unit, from its pre-invasion training to combat in Europe.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: David Brian, John Agar, Frank Lovejoy, William Campbell
Votes: 437
26. Chain Lightning (1950)
Approved | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now works as a receptionist for the company.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Eleanor Parker, Raymond Massey, Richard Whorf
Votes: 1,679
27. Summer Stock (1950)
Approved | 108 min | Musical, Romance
A small-town farmer, down on her luck, finds her homestead invaded by a theatrical troupe invited to stay by her ne'er-do-well sister.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven
Votes: 4,808
28. Stella (1950)
83 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Uncle Joe's untimely demise brings about an endless parade of unexpected consequences. The young, beautiful matriarch of the family leads the way to pleasant resolution for all.
Director: Claude Binyon | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Victor Mature, Leif Erickson, David Wayne
Votes: 145
29. Bright Leaf (1950)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In 1894, Brant Royle shocks the aristocratic tobacco growers of Kingsmont by planning to mass-produce cigarettes.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Neal, Jack Carson
Votes: 1,439
30. The Miniver Story (1950)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon reprise their legendary roles as Mr. and Mrs. Miniver in this lovingly crafted sequel to their Academy Award®-winning hit Mrs. Miniver.
Directors: H.C. Potter, Victor Saville | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Leo Genn
Votes: 922 | Gross: $2.16M
31. Young Man with a Horn (1950)
Passed | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a manipulative heiress.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael
Votes: 3,886
32. Black Hand (1950)
Passed | 92 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Now grown-up, Johnny Columbo returns to New York from Italy having sworn a vendetta against the Black Hand who killed his father years earlier. Becoming romantically involved with a girl ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Gene Kelly, J. Carrol Naish, Teresa Celli, Marc Lawrence
Votes: 952
33. Murder Without Crime (1950)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In London, a man is blackmailed by his landlord-neighbor after he accidentally kills, in his flat, a woman he picked up in a nightclub.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Dennis Price, Derek Farr, Patricia Plunkett, Joan Dowling
Votes: 268
34. Cage of Gold (1950)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama
In post-WW2 Britain, a young woman marries an old flame but after he disappears, and is later declared dead, she re-marries, only to be blackmailed by the supposedly-dead first husband who suddenly re-appears in her life, in need of money.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Jean Simmons, David Farrar, James Donald, Madeleine Lebeau
Votes: 550
35. Edge of Doom (1950)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mentally unbalanced young man kills a priest. One of the priest's colleagues sets out to find the killer.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Robert Keith
Votes: 930
36. A Lady Without Passport (1950)
Approved | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the 1950s, an undercover U.S. Immigration investigator travels to Cuba to bust a crime ring that smuggles illegal-aliens into the USA but he falls in love with a smuggled woman.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig, George Macready
Votes: 917
37. Under the Gun (1951)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After a cunning, unscrupulous mobster is sentenced to a Florida prison farm, he launches a deadly escape plan.
Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: Richard Conte, Audrey Totter, John McIntire, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 199
38. Quicksand (1950)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After taking 20 dollars from his employer to go on a date with plans to repay it the next day, an auto mechanic falls into increasingly disastrous circumstances for more and more money which rapidly spirals out of his control.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Peter Lorre
Votes: 2,671
39. Under My Skin (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Sport, Thriller
On the run from gamblers he double-crossed, expatriate jockey Danny Butler tries to justify his son's faith in him as a winner.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: John Garfield, Micheline Presle, Luther Adler, Orley Lindgren
Votes: 390
40. Side Street (1949)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals money from the office of a shady lawyer--with catastrophic consequences.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig, Paul Kelly
Votes: 3,332
41. The Tattooed Stranger (1950)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The body of a Jane Doe turns up in an abandoned car in New York and the police's only clue revolves around the tattoo she has on her arm, and the fact that someone tried to destroy the corpse to erase the fingerprints.
Director: Edward Montagne | Stars: John Miles, Patricia Barry, Walter Kinsella, Frank Tweddell
Votes: 1,109
42. Dial 1119 (1950)
Passed | 75 min | Film-Noir, Thriller
An escaped psychiatric patient causes havoc.
Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King, Sam Levene
Votes: 1,582
43. One Way Street (1950)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: James Mason, Märta Torén, Dan Duryea, Basil Ruysdael
Votes: 783
44. Guilty Bystander (1950)
Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.
Director: Joseph Lerner | Stars: Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Mary Boland, Sam Levene
Votes: 1,078
45. The Secret Fury (1950)
Approved | 85 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
A woman preparing to marry her fiance is accused of bigamy by a stranger but she fights back by trying to prove she's the victim of a conspiracy designed to discredit her.
Director: Mel Ferrer | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl, Paul Kelly
Votes: 1,310
46. Gambling House (1950)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In New York, a small-time hood, who took the rap for a murder committed by his crime-boss in exchange for 50 G's, faces deportation because he doesn't hold American citizenship.
Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: Victor Mature, Terry Moore, William Bendix, Zachary Charles
Votes: 500
47. The Second Woman (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house.
Director: James V. Kern | Stars: Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton, Florence Bates
Votes: 1,427
48. Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
Passed | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Prowl car cops on night duty romance a reluctant young woman who works for the department while in danger from a vengeful racketeer.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien, Gale Storm, Donald Buka
Votes: 1,279
49. La Marie du Port (1950)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Henri Chatelard is well in his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciate women. When he meets Marie, a 18ish stronghead who just lost her father in a small ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Jean Gabin, Blanchette Brunoy, Nicole Courcel, Claude Romain
Votes: 465
50. Highway 301 (1950)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Led by a psychopathic killer, a vicious gang of armed robbers terrorizes Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina, robbing banks and payrolls and murdering anyone who might identify them.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: William P. Lane Jr., John S. Battle, W. Kerr Scott, Steve Cochran
Votes: 1,117
51. Dark City (1950)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger
Votes: 2,696
52. Eye Witness (1950)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In 1949, when his former British war buddy is charged with murder, American lawyer Adam Hayward goes to England to see if he can help.
Director: Robert Montgomery | Stars: Ruth Lee, Robert Montgomery, Hal Osmond, Wylie Watson
Votes: 371
53. Hunt the Man Down (1950)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
The suspect in a 12-year-old murder case is finally caught and tried, but the witnesses are a bit hard to track down...
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson, Willard Parker
Votes: 1,050
54. Please Believe Me (1950)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
An English woman, inherits a Texas Ranch and heads to America. A gambler in debt pursues her, so does a bachelor on the hunt, who is traveling with his lawyer, to whom Kirbe is most attracted. Unfortunately, he thinks she's running a scam.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Robert Walker, Mark Stevens, Peter Lawford
Votes: 649
55. To Please a Lady (1950)
Passed | 91 min | Action, Romance, Sport
A former war hero and midget car racer meets his match in a feisty reporter who blames his reckless tactics for an accidental racing death.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Will Geer
Votes: 1,137
56. The Big Lift (1950)
Approved | 120 min | Drama, War
Experiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, Bruni Löbel
Votes: 1,733
57. Outrage (1950)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke, Raymond Bond
Votes: 1,817
58. A Life of Her Own (1950)
Passed | 108 min | Drama, Mystery
A girl from Kansas arrives in New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell, Louis Calhern
Votes: 1,351
59. Guilt Is My Shadow (1950)
86 min | Crime, Drama
After a failed bank robbery the getaway driver flees to the Devon countryside and the farm of his uncle.
Director: Roy Kellino | Stars: Peter Reynolds, Patrick Holt, Lawrence O'Madden, Esma Cannon
Votes: 156
60. Chain Gang (1950)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts (Douglas Kennedy), masquerades as a prison guard and gets a job attached to the chain gang. Using a tiny camera in the shape of a cigarette lighter, he ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Douglas Kennedy, Marjorie Lord, Emory Parnell, William 'Bill' Phillips
Votes: 109
61. Her Panelled Door (1950)
Approved | 84 min | Drama
A young woman with amnesia finds herself in London during the second world war. She falls in love and marries a Polish man in the R.A.F. He gets killed and then a crippled man comes to her ... See full summary »
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Edward Underdown, Helen Cherry, Richard Burton
Votes: 82
62. Five Angles on Murder (1950)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman is murdered, but she is seen in different ways by different people.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Jean Kent, Dirk Bogarde, John McCallum, Susan Shaw
Votes: 1,077
63. Shakedown (1950)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Unscrupulous and opportunistic San Francisco news media photographer Jack Early steps on and uses folks to get ahead, but in the end he tangles with the wrong people.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, Brian Donlevy, Lawrence Tierney
Votes: 729
64. Paul Temple's Triumph (1950)
80 min | Mystery
A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Jack Livesey, Beatrice Varley
Votes: 134
65. Once a Thief (1950)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress... See full summary »
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Cesar Romero, June Havoc, Marie McDonald, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 218
66. Backfire (1950)
Passed | 91 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
While recuperating from wartime back injuries at a hospital, veteran Bob Corey is visited on Christmas Eve by a beautiful stranger with an even stranger message.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
Votes: 1,790
67. The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
Unrated | 97 min | Mystery, Thriller
French police inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a rich Paris widow and ends up chasing the killer up the Eiffel Tower's girders.
Directors: Burgess Meredith, Irving Allen, Charles Laughton | Stars: Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton
Votes: 1,025
68. The Admiral Was a Lady (1950)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Wanda Hendrix, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Sands
Votes: 407
69. Woman on the Run (1950)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Frank Johnson becomes an eyewitness to a murder. He's pursued around San Francisco by his wife, the police, and the killer.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen
Votes: 4,838
70. Destination Murder (1950)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When Laura Mansfield's father is killed by a delivery man, the police has few clues and the investigation drags on but Laura decides to find the killer on her own.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Joyce Mackenzie, Stanley Clements, Hurd Hatfield, Albert Dekker
Votes: 1,023
71. Operation Disaster (1950)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, History, War
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: John Mills, Nigel Patrick, Peter Hammond, Andrew Crawford
Votes: 848
72. I Was a Shoplifter (1950)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In 1950s California, the police force tries to infiltrate and neutralize a shoplifting crime ring operating in major department stores.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Scott Brady, Mona Freeman, Andrea King, Tony Curtis
Votes: 448
73. The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his newly-minted detective brother assigned to the case alongside him.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall, Lisa Howard
Votes: 2,856
74. The Capture (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Western
A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory, Jacqueline White
Votes: 661
75. Golden Salamander (1950)
Not Rated | 96 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A man is torn between tackling a sinister crime syndicate or turning a blind eye to the suffering it creates.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Trevor Howard, Anouk Aimée, Herbert Lom, Walter Rilla
Votes: 709
76. The White Tower (1950)
Approved | 98 min | Adventure
A group of people come together in the Swiss Alps to climb a previously unconquered mountain, revealing their inner selves in the process.
Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: Claude Rains, Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Oscar Homolka
Votes: 1,018
77. Right Cross (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Sport
Two boxing promoters compete to sign up Mexican-American prizefighter Johnny Monterez who, despite his talent, is ashamed of his heritage and boxes on borrowed time due to a permanent hand injury.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 528
78. They Were Not Divided (1950)
102 min | Drama, War
The story of men in the Guards Armoured Division in WWII, from basic training through to battle.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Edward Underdown, Ralph Clanton, Helen Cherry, Stella Andrew
Votes: 341
79. Kim (1950)
Approved | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas
Votes: 2,258
80. Captain China (1950)
Passed | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Charles Chinnough, aka Captain China, washed ashore off his ship during a storm, is later rescued, but is relieved of duty after his former first mate, Brendensen (who thought he was dead),... See full summary »
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: John Payne, Gail Russell, Jeffrey Lynn, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 140
81. Tripoli (1950)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Adventure, History
In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag
Director: Will Price | Stars: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Reed
Votes: 517
82. Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Drama
When King John imposes oppressive taxes and cruel treatment upon the local population in medieval England, the son of legendary bandit Robin Hood reforms his father's "Merry Men" to once more rise against the king.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: John Derek, Diana Lynn, George Macready, Alan Hale
Votes: 408
83. The Eagle and the Hawk (1950)
Not Rated | 104 min | Western
A Texas Ranger and a government agent team up to help Mexican patriot Juarez fend off European opposition.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Dennis O'Keefe, Thomas Gomez
Votes: 368
84. Buccaneer's Girl (1950)
Approved | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A New Orleans entertainer falls for a pirate who has another identity.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend, Robert Douglas, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 689
85. The Lawless (1950)
Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A newspaper editor in a small agricultural town finds himself going against the people in the town when he gets involved in the plight of the area's fruit pickers, who are mostly Mexican.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Gail Russell, Johnny Sands, Lee Patrick
Votes: 738
86. So Young, So Bad (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Drama
A psychiatrist and nurse overthrow the abusive heads of a girls' reform school in order to teach the unfortunate young women that they have a chance at healthy lives.
Directors: Bernard Vorhaus, Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Paul Henreid, Catherine McLeod, Grace Coppin, Cecil Clovelly
Votes: 579
87. The Savage Horde (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Western
On the run from the U.S. Army, Ringo ends up in a small Utah town where he takes sides in a land feud between local ranchers but he always keeps an eye out for the Army patrols closing-in on him.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Bill Elliott, Lorna Gray, Grant Withers, Barbra Fuller
Votes: 159
88. Rio Grande (1950)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son who's a risk-taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr.
Votes: 17,661
89. Ambush (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Western
In 1878, Ward Kinsman, a prospector and Indian scout, is persuaded by the US Cavalry to find Mary Carlyle, the daughter of a general, who has been taken by Apaches.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Robert Taylor, John Hodiak, Arlene Dahl, Don Taylor
Votes: 867
90. Sierra Passage (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Western
When Yance Carter, Andy and Bart, professional killers, murder his father, 13-year-old Johnny Yorke is adopted by Thad Kring, owner of a traveling minstrel show, featuring Sam Cooper as his... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Wayne Morris, Lola Albright, Lloyd Corrigan, Alan Hale Jr.
Votes: 94
91. Two Flags West (1950)
Approved | 92 min | War, Western
Forced by circumstances,Confederate POWs and Union soldiers join forces against Indians but old animosities resurface during their fragile alliance.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Linda Darnell, Jeff Chandler, Cornel Wilde
Votes: 1,202
92. Branded (1950)
Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford, Robert Keith
Votes: 1,020
93. The Return of Jesse James (1950)
Approved | 75 min | Western
Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.
Director: Arthur Hilton | Stars: John Ireland, Ann Dvorak, Henry Hull, Reed Hadley
Votes: 138
94. The Nevadan (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Western
A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Forrest Tucker, Frank Faylen
Votes: 1,221
95. Dakota Lil (1950)
Approved | 88 min | Western
Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, Marie Windsor, John Emery
Votes: 196
96. Young Daniel Boone (1950)
71 min | Biography, Western
Frontier scout Daniel Boone is sent out to locate the only two survivors of General Braddock's men that are believed two have lived through an Indian massacre. One of the survivors, CHarlie... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: David Bruce, Kristine Miller, Damian O'Flynn, Don Beddoe
Votes: 50
97. Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950)
Not Rated | 71 min | Adventure, Western
Davy Crockett (not the famous Alamo hero, but his nephew) guides a wagon train through hostile territory and rescues the cavalry from ambushing Indians.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: George Montgomery, Ellen Drew, Phillip Reed, Noah Beery Jr.
Votes: 346
98. Mister 880 (1950)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Gentle romantic comedy about a Secret Service Agent trying to catch a cold case counterfeiter and a United Nations translator.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Edmund Gwenn, Dorothy McGuire, Millard Mitchell
Votes: 1,964
99. Vulcano (1950)
Approved | 106 min | Drama
While awaiting Production Code seal approval in the USA this Italian-made production went through three American distributors in three years; first Motion Picture Sales Corporation that ... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Anna Magnani, Rossano Brazzi, Geraldine Brooks, Eduardo Ciannelli
Votes: 336
100. Vendetta (1950)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama
The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica.
Directors: Mel Ferrer, Stuart Heisler, Max Ophüls, Preston Sturges, Paul Weatherwax | Stars: Faith Domergue, George Dolenz, Donald Buka, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 130
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