Favorite 50 of the '50s

A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him. (85 mins.)

A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act. (118 mins.)

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. (110 mins.)

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. (122 mins.)

A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. (111 mins.)

After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. (161 mins.)

In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe. (131 mins.)

A self-assured business man murders his employer, the husband of his adulterer, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events. (88 mins.)

An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B. (105 mins.)

Two escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.

A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. (112 mins.)

A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit." (106 mins.)

Two lonely people have almost resigned themselves to never being truly loved. (90 mins.)

Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer - until he finds his next target is a woman. (81 mins.)

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence. (91 mins.)

A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. (207 mins.)

Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town. (95 mins.)

Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini. (90 mins.)

In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship. (105 mins.)

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love. (118 mins.)

An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits. (99 mins.)

When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. (120 mins.)

An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends. (138 mins.)

A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies. (111 mins.)

A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel. (112 mins.)