Browsing: Movies 1950

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…

This biting backstage comedy-drama about a fading actress, played by Bette Davis, brims generously with entertainment values: a witty screenplay, top performances by a marvellous…

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…

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,”…

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…

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,…

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…

Humphrey Bogart is Dixon Steele, an embittered and washed-up Hollywood screenwriter who pays hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson (Martha Stewart) to help out with a script…

Adventure based on the classic novel by H Rider Haggard, starring Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger. It is 1897 and Elizabeth Curtis (Kerr) is on…

Farm equipment salesman George Bird (Alec Guinness) – a meek and ordinary bachelor – is told by his doctor that he has just six weeks…

Pa Kettle (Percy Kilbride) – a much-married man – wins a trip to New York in a slogan-writing competition for Bubble-ola soft drink. He and…