Movies: 1950-1959
by BedBird | created - 02 Nov 2018 | updated - 12 May 2021 | PublicJust a boatload of 50's movies. (100+ Votes) From least to most amount of votes, within their year. I highly suggest using the 'Refine' option. Happy Movie Hunting! :)
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1. 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
2. Killer Shark (1950)
Approved | 76 min | Adventure
A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting boat. When his inexperience results in an accident in which his father and a crewman are ... See full summary »
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Laurette Luez, Roland Winters, Edward Norris
Votes: 260
3. Guilty of Treason (1950)
Not Rated | 86 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the German occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime ... See full summary »
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Charles Bickford, Bonita Granville, Paul Kelly, Richard Derr
Votes: 239
4. Blondie's Hero (1950)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Family
Dagwood accidentally enlists in the Army reserve. Blondie accompanies him to basic training camp.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Marjorie Ann Mutchie
Votes: 219
5. Paid in Full (1950)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Romance
Jane Langley has always done all she can for her selfish sibling Nancy. After both sisters fall in love with handsome Bill Prentice, Jane graciously steps aside. Relationships among all ... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Robert Cummings, Lizabeth Scott, Diana Lynn, Eve Arden
Votes: 290
6. 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
7. Last of the Buccaneers (1950)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, History
Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Paul Henreid, Jack Oakie, Karin Booth, Mary Anderson
Votes: 166
8. What the Butler Saw (1950)
61 min | Comedy, Romance
A British nobleman who has spent the majority of his life running a tropical island returns to England. He finds that an island princess has fallen in love with his butler. Finding that ... See full summary »
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Edward Rigby, Henry Mollison, Mercy Haystead, Michael Ward
Votes: 156
9. The Hidden City (1950)
Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Princess Leah is the rightful heir to a tribal throne which has been stolen from her by the dastardly Hassan. Bomba the Jungle Boy, of course, comes to her rescue.
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Johnny Sheffield, Sue England, Paul Guilfoyle, Damian O'Flynn
Votes: 232
10. The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy
When a naval officer's wife breaks her ankle and is laid up, her husband takes over running the household by employing military regimentation and discipline, which leads to a number of amusing situations.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Robert Walker, Joan Leslie, Edward Arnold, Spring Byington
Votes: 235
11. Beware of Blondie (1950)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Family
Mr. Dithers has gone on vacation and left Dagwood to look after the company. Toby tries to take advantage of Dagwood's naiveté, but Blondie saves the day.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Marjorie Ann Mutchie
Votes: 238
12. Stage to Tucson (1950)
Passed | 81 min | Western
A group of outlaws posing as Southern sympathizers and led secretly by freight-line owner Jim Maroon are raiding stagecoaches, and this is a threat to the Union communications. Grif ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Rod Cameron, Wayne Morris, Kay Buckley, Sally Eilers
Votes: 272
13. Return of the Frontiersman (1950)
Passed | 74 min | Western
A sheriff's son is falsely accused of murder, and a friend determines to clear his name and find the real killer.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Gordon MacRae, Julie London, Rory Calhoun, Jack Holt
Votes: 193
14. Southside 1-1000 (1950)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The US secret service goes after a counterfeit ring, whose engraver Eugene Deane has covertly constructed his plates while serving a life sentence in San Quentin. In order to infiltrate the... See full summary »
Director: Boris Ingster | Stars: Don DeFore, Andrea King, George Tobias, Barry Kelley
Votes: 248
15. The Torch (1950)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A revolutionary and his band take over a small Mexican town. The townspeople begin to take sides over whether to fight him, join forces with him or just try to get along with him.
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Paulette Goddard, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland, Walter Reed
Votes: 230
16. Double Deal (1950)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman inherits an Oklahoma oil well and hires an itinerant oil engineer to start drilling but she runs afoul of a greedy oil tycooness who wants her company at any cost, even if it means murder, sabotage and deceit.
Director: Abby Berlin | Stars: Marie Windsor, Richard Denning, Taylor Holmes, Fay Baker
Votes: 259
17. Trail of Robin Hood (1950)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Music, Western
Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to have one. A commercial tree company tries to drive Holt out of business. Roy saves the day, of course.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones
Votes: 302
18. Bells of Coronado (1950)
Approved | 67 min | Drama, Music, Western
Roy is an insurance investigator looking into the theft of uranium ore. He must prevent the thieves from taking off in a plane with the stolen ore.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dale Evans, Pat Brady
Votes: 231
19. It's a Small World (1950)
Approved | 74 min | Drama
Harry Musk is one in a million. Adult, pint-sized Harry longs to be part of the big world.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Paul Dale, Lorraine Miller, Will Geer, Nina Koshetz
Votes: 176
20. The Lost Volcano (1950)
Approved | 76 min | Adventure
When a young boy is kidnapped by hunters who believe he knows the location of a great treasure, Bomba the Jungle Boy seeks to rescue him from them and from a volcano which is about to erupt.
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Johnny Sheffield, Donald Woods, Marjorie Lord, John Ridgely
Votes: 249
21. 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
22. Waterfront Women (1950)
80 min | Drama
A worthless sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. They make a go of their lives, but the eldest daughter is not happy when her father decides to return.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, Avis Scott, Susan Shaw
Votes: 489
23. 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: 450
24. Trigger, Jr. (1950)
Passed | 68 min | Western
Evil Grant Withers lets a killer horse loose to ruin valuable horses on nearby ranches. He hopes to shake down the ranchers for his "protection". Roy tracks down the bad guys, but is ... See full summary »
Director: William Witney | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dale Evans, Pat Brady
Votes: 244
25. 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: 731
26. Wyoming Mail (1950)
Passed | 87 min | Western
In 1869, when the railroad mail service is threatened by frequent bandit attacks, the government hires Steve Davis to infiltrate a gang in order to destroy it from inside.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Howard Da Silva, Ed Begley
Votes: 274
27. Three Husbands (1950)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands.
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 335
28. 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
29. Flying Disc Man from Mars (1950)
Passed | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A hero single-handedly sets himself against Martians trying to assume control of Earth.
Director: Fred C. Brannon | Stars: Walter Reed, Lois Collier, Gregory Gaye, James Craven
Votes: 290
30. The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young man who insists that he is innocent is slated to be the first executed in the prison's electric chair.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Sally Parr, Patrick Waltz, Walter Reed, Lee Frederick
Votes: 277
31. 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: 1,079
32. High Lonesome (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Western
When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in Texas Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area.
Director: Alan Le May | Stars: John Drew Barrymore, Chill Wills, John Archer, Lois Butler
Votes: 330
33. Mr. Music (1950)
Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary conspire to get him back on track.
Director: Richard Haydn | Stars: Bing Crosby, Nancy Olson, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 260
34. Barricade (1950)
Approved | 77 min | Western
Jack London's "The Sea Wolf" is transported from sea to land in this intriguing western. The ruthless boss of a mining camp meets his match when fugitives from justice cross his path.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Ruth Roman, Robert Douglas
Votes: 287
35. The Second Face (1950)
Passed | 77 min | Drama
From her hospital bed a woman recounts her life as a "plain Jane" while awaiting plastic surgeries for the injuries she has sustained in an automobile accident.
Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Ella Raines, Bruce Bennett, Rita Johnson, John Sutton
Votes: 219
36. The Desert Hawk (1950)
Passed | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Greene, Jackie Gleason, George Macready
Votes: 321
37. Experiment Alcatraz (1950)
Approved | 57 min | Crime, Mystery
A doctor tests his theory that blood diseases can be cured by atomic radiation by using prison inmates as experiments.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: John Howard, Joan Dixon, Walter Kingsford, Lynne Carter
Votes: 344
38. 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
39. 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
40. The Milkman (1950)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy
Roger Bradley, son of a milk magnate, isn't allowed to work for his dad's company because of a lingering war trauma: in moments of stress he quacks like a duck. Desperate to escape from ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Jimmy Durante, Piper Laurie, Joyce Holden
Votes: 254
41. This Side of the Law (1950)
Approved | 74 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A drifter is bailed out of jail by a lawyer, who hires him to impersonate a millionaire until the man can be declared legally dead and the estate settled. However, the man soon finds out that things are not exactly how they seem.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige, Robert Douglas
Votes: 401
42. The Showdown (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Western
Shadrach Jones is convinced that his brother was robbed and killed by a Circle K Ranch cowhand and therefore he joins the outfit in order to find the murderer.
Directors: Dorrell McGowan, Stuart E. McGowan | Stars: Bill Elliott, Walter Brennan, Marie Windsor, Harry Morgan
Votes: 257
43. Double Confession (1950)
80 min | Crime, Drama
After his wife is murdered, the husband tries to divert suspicion from himself to someone else. Unfortunately, his scheme winds up getting him mixed up with some real murderers.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, William Hartnell
Votes: 424
44. 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
45. Bunco Squad (1950)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A detective goes after a ring of phony "mediums" who are trying to swindle a rich widow out of her fortune.
Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, Ricardo Cortez, Douglas Fowley
Votes: 322
46. 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
47. The Petty Girl (1950)
Approved | 88 min | Biography, Comedy, Musical
An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his artwork. She declines his offer, but he's determined not to take no for an answer.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Robert Cummings, Joan Caulfield, Elsa Lanchester, Melville Cooper
Votes: 288
48. 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
49. Triple Trouble (1950)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Slip, Sach, Whitey, Butch and Chuck witness a warehouse robbery, and are arrested and jailed on suspicion. Gabe Moreno, their lawyer-friend gets them released on bail. Since the charge of ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Richard Benedict
Votes: 299
50. The Great Manhunt (1950)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
In post-WW2 Europe, when the dictator of a small police state dies during surgery, the operating surgeon, who's a visiting American doctor, is held captive in order to preserve the terrible state secret.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Walter Rilla
Votes: 821
51. Wabash Avenue (1950)
Approved | 92 min | Musical
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position... See full summary »
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Phil Harris, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 346 | Gross: $2.04M
52. Lucky Losers (1950)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
To solve the death of a friend, the boys go to gambling school, then go undercover as croupiers in an illegal gambling house.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Hillary Brooke, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 362
53. Louisa (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
To her family's discomfiture, grandmother Louisa starts dating two men...a grocer and her son's boss.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 547
54. Chance of a Lifetime (1950)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
Director: Bernard Miles | Stars: Basil Radford, Niall MacGinnis, Bernard Miles, Julien Mitchell
Votes: 317
55. The Fireball (1950)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Sport
An orphanage runaway becomes a roller-skating champion but gets sick with polio.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Pat O'Brien, Beverly Tyler, James Brown
Votes: 373
56. Never Fear (1950)
Passed | 82 min | Drama
A dancer who has just gotten engaged to her partner and choreographer and is about to embark on a major career is devastated to learn that she has contracted polio.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Hugh O'Brian, Eve Miller
Votes: 804
57. 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
58. Pretty Baby (1950)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy
A working girl rises in an ad agency after impressing a baby-food client with her lifelike dolls.
Director: Bretaigne Windust | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Betsy Drake, Zachary Scott, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 428
59. 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
60. Blonde Dynamite (1950)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
With Louie away, Slip turns the Sweet Shop into an escort service that attracts the attention of bank robbers.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Adele Jergens, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 415
61. 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: 501
62. 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: 410
63. 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
64. Pygmy Island (1950)
69 min | Adventure, Family
Jungle Jim heads a search for missing WAC Captain Ann Kingsley; a white midget plays Tembo, the pygmy chief.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Ann Savage, David Bruce, Steven Geray
Votes: 337
65. For Heaven's Sake (1950)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An angel disguises himself as a crusty old rancher in order to visit Earth and help an unborn child find suitable parents.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Clifton Webb, Joan Bennett, Robert Cummings, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 508
66. The Sleeping City (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In New York, the murder of a Bellevue Hospital intern prompts the police to send an undercover detective to investigate.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Richard Conte, Coleen Gray, Richard Taber, John Alexander
Votes: 852
67. 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: 438
68. The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
Hot-tempered Kathleen Maguire enlists the services of a young attorney to help her zookeeper father get his job back after he is fired for political reasons. In the midst of uncovering ... See full summary »
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: June Allyson, Dick Powell, David Wayne, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 420
69. Watch the Birdie (1950)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A cameraman helps an heiress to get rid of her financial adviser, who wants to get her money.
Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller, Leon Ames
Votes: 419
70. A Woman of Distinction (1950)
85 min | Comedy
Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a... See full summary »
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Ray Milland, Edmund Gwenn, Janis Carter
Votes: 544
71. The Good Humor Man (1950)
Passed | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An ice-cream seller unwittingly gets involved with a femme-fatale, leading to murder-charges, gangsters and factory payroll robberies.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Jack Carson, Lola Albright, Jean Wallace, George Reeves
Votes: 508
72. Captive Girl (1950)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Jungle Jim is out to save Joan Martindale from an evil witch doctor whilst simultaneously fighting Barton, an evil treasure hunter.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Anita Lhoest, Rick Vallin
Votes: 388
73. Perfect Strangers (1950)
Unrated | 88 min | Drama, Romance
Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan, serving on a sequestered jury during a murder trial, fall in love. She is divorced, he is married.
Director: Bretaigne Windust | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Margalo Gillmore
Votes: 551
74. Mark of the Gorilla (1950)
Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Family
Crooks dressed to look like gorillas are looking for lost Nazi gold, and Jungle Jim must stop them.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Trudy Marshall, Suzanne Dalbert, Onslow Stevens
Votes: 387
75. 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: 792
76. Blues Busters (1950)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy
After he undergoes a throat operation, Slip and the gang discover that Sach now possesses a beautiful singing voice and try to figure out how to make money off of it.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Adele Jergens, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 462
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. Father Is a Bachelor (1950)
Passed | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
William Holden plays a drifter who comes to a small town and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids--January, February, March, April, and May--are living on their own. Their ... See full summary »
Directors: Abby Berlin, Norman Foster | Stars: William Holden, Coleen Gray, Mary Jane Saunders, Charles Winninger
Votes: 526
79. 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
80. The Magnet (1950)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy
A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox, Meredith Edwards
Votes: 611
81. 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
82. Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A paroled embezzler skips town with his $100K loot and boards the Chicago-New York train, followed by an assortment of shady characters who want the money, but en-route to NYC the embezzler is murdered and his loot disappears.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Marjorie Main, James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak, Phyllis Kirk
Votes: 624
83. The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950)
Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Musical
An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.
Director: David Butler | Stars: June Haver, Gordon MacRae, James Barton, S.Z. Sakall
Votes: 587
84. The Big Hangover (1950)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
A law school graduate is hired by a top law firm, but hides from them a secret about a problem he has. He is so allergic to alcohol that one whiff of it and he passes out like a light.
Director: Norman Krasna | Stars: Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor, Percy Waram, Fay Holden
Votes: 578
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. No Sad Songs for Me (1950)
Approved | 88 min | Drama
Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Wendell Corey, Viveca Lindfors, Natalie Wood
Votes: 514
87. 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: 662
88. Three Secrets (1950)
Approved | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Three women who secretly gave up their newborn sons for adoption in 1945 wonder if the 5-year-old survivor of a plane crash, named in the the local newspapers, is their long-abandoned son.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman, Frank Lovejoy
Votes: 670
89. The Sundowners (1950)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Western
Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of feuding ranchers in the old west.
Director: George Templeton | Stars: Robert Preston, Robert Sterling, Chill Wills, Cathy Downs
Votes: 561
90. The Yellow Cab Man (1950)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A clumsy, accident-prone taxicab driver, who invented the elastic-glass, risks losing his valuable invention to a group of con-men led by a crooked lawyer but the pretty lady owner of the Yellow Cab Co. comes to his aid.
Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Red Skelton, Gloria DeHaven, Walter Slezak, Edward Arnold
Votes: 547 | Gross: $2.60M
91. 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: 1,281
92. 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: 1,051
93. Pagan Love Song (1950)
Approved | 76 min | Musical, Romance
A man from Ohio inherits a coconut plantation and falls in love with a half-American, half-Tahitian beauty. Song-and-swim musical ensues in the tropical paradise.
Director: Robert Alton | Stars: Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Minna Gombell, Charles Mauu
Votes: 586
94. Highly Dangerous (1950)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Thriller
A British lady entomologist travels to a Balkan country to look into germ warfare trials using various bugs as carriers.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne
Votes: 619
95. 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: 580
96. My Blue Heaven (1950)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Musical
Betty Grable and Dan Dailey are a married song and dance team who cannot have children. The movie follows the travails as they try and adopt and keep the kids they adopt while performing on their TV show.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, David Wayne, Jane Wyatt
Votes: 566
97. Riding High (1950)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, Frances Gifford
Votes: 592
98. Duchess of Idaho (1950)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Ellen Hallet is in love with her playboy boss, Douglas Morrison, but too timid to do anything about it. Her roommate Chris devises a plan to help her: she follows Morrison on his trip to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Esther Williams, Van Johnson, John Lund, Paula Raymond
Votes: 640
99. Nancy Goes to Rio (1950)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A mother and daughter compete over the same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Ann Sothern, Jane Powell, Barry Sullivan, Carmen Miranda
Votes: 602
100. 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
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