Between meeting Dracula and the Invisible Man, Abbott and Costello took time out to cavort on existing sets on Universal’s backlot, but they could well…
Browsing: Movies 1950
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This biting backstage comedy-drama about fading actress Margo Channing, played by Bette Davis, brims generously with entertainment values: a witty screenplay, top performances by a…
This Technicolor outdoor song and dance extravaganza is a flashy film version of the Broadway hit musical about Annie Oakley, the celebrated female sharpshooter. Set…
Thanks to its emphasis on character, this film noir about an old crook fresh out of jail who brings a gang of criminals together for…
”1900. Sheep country’s getting pretty scarce around the Australian coast, families are growing, land that was big enough for Dad is too small for his…
When veteran London policeman PC George Dixon (Jack Warner) is shot trying to arrest a couple of crooks, new recruit PC Andy Mitchell (Jimmy Hanley)…
This extravagant tonsorial fable is set in a small American town and concerns Peter Frye (Dean Stockwell), a sensitive small boy who lives with “Gramp,”…
Although technically not an Ed Wood film (he helped write it), this Allied Artist production has all the hallmarks of an Ed Wood film. While…
The first Western from director Delmer Daves, Broken Arrow tells the story of US army scout Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) who marries a young Apache girl…
One of the very earliest satires on modern media, this little-known, rarely shown screwball comedy remains topical. Eccentric genius Beauregard Bottomley (Ronald Colman) is the…
Frank Gilbreth (Clifton Webb) and his wife Lillian (Myrna Loy) are inordinately proud of their large family of eleven and there is no question in…
Though screen adaptations of Cinderella abound, none is as well-remembered as the 1950 Disney animated version. Returning to full-length animated features for the first time since 1942,…
Copper Canyon tells the story of a group of Civil War veterans from the South who move west to take up mining claims in a copper…
Jack Hardacre (Robert Donat), a be-medalled sergeant, returns to his Lancashire home from the Middle East on 21 days’ leave. He is engaged to Janey…
Former LA cop Vince Kane (George Raft) and not too scrupulous self-made man Joe Farley (Pat O’Brien) are partners in a bail-bond business. Claude Brackett…
Four men travel to the Moon but then discover their rocket does not have enough fuel for the return trip. Intended to be the first…
This superb domestic comedy brilliantly illustrates a fond father’s reactions to the many problems – mostly financial – which arise during preparations for his only…
Biff Jones (Jack Carson) – the favourite ice cream salesman (known as a “Good Humor man” in the States) of the kids – becomes involved…
Alastair Sim is Wetherby Pond, the unyielding headmaster of Nutbourne College, struggling with a wartime blunder that merges his all-male establishment with a girls’ school,…
This whimsical fantasy comedy starred James Stewart as tippler Elwood P Dowd, whose constant companion, Harvey, just happens to be a six-foot white rabbit who…