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The Fraeon Archive · The 1950s
19491951

1950

Widescreen spectacle at the movies, quiet revolutions in Japan and Europe, and television arriving to change everything.

The films everyone saw

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Cinderella

Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving a single glass slipper... the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending!

3.5

Cinderella

1950

Sunset Boulevard

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

4.1

Sunset Boulevard

1950

Rashomon

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

4.0

Rashomon

1950

All About Eve

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

4.1

All About Eve

1950

Treasure Island

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.

3.3

Treasure Island

1950

Broken Arrow

Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the American settlers and Apaches in the late 1870s Arizona. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.

3.4

Broken Arrow

1950

Orpheus

A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.

3.8

Orpheus

1950

The Asphalt Jungle

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

3.7

The Asphalt Jungle

1950

The Young and the Damned

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

4.0

The Young and the Damned

1950

Cheaper by the Dozen

"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.

3.2

Cheaper by the Dozen

1950

Rio Grande

Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.

3.4

Rio Grande

1950

Father of the Bride

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.

3.5

Father of the Bride

1950

Night and the City

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.

3.7

Night and the City

1950

Force of Evil

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.

3.3

Force of Evil

1950

The Gunfighter

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

3.7

The Gunfighter

1950

Harvey

The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

3.8

Harvey

1950

King Solomon's Mines

Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing husband lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.

3.2

King Solomon's Mines

1950

The Men

Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm, Leo and Angel begin to pull him out of his spiritual dilemma.

3.5

The Men

1950

What the critics kept

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In a Lonely Place

A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

3.8

In a Lonely Place

1950

Gun Crazy

Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.

3.7

Gun Crazy

1950

Winchester '73

Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.

3.7

Winchester '73

1950

Stage Fright

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

3.4

Stage Fright

1950

Hidden gems of 1950loved by the few who found them

The King of the Neighborhood

A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.

4.2

The King of the Neighborhood

1950

Rabbit of Seville

Behind the Hollywood Bowl stage which is playing the opera The Barber of Seville, Bugs Bunny flees into the backstage area with Elmer Fudd in close pursuit. Seeing his opportunity to fight on his terms, Bugs raises the curtain on Elmer, trapping him on stage. As the orchestra begins playing, Bugs comes into play as the barber who is going to make sure that Elmer is going to get a grooming he will never forget.

3.8

Rabbit of Seville

1950

La Ronde

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.

3.7

La Ronde

1950

Born Yesterday

Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.

3.6

Born Yesterday

1950

The Beauty of the Devil

Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce Faust to sign a pact to exchange his soul for renewed youth, riches and power. But though the "new" Faust is attracted by the material improvements in his life, he remains wary of signing, while Mephistopheles, now posing as the aged professor whose body he inhabits, must find a way to trick him into signing the pact - and dissuade him from the love of a gypsy girl who prays for his soul - or find himself damned by his own Master...

3.6

The Beauty of the Devil

1950

Cue Ball Cat

Tom is in a pool hall after hours; as he soon discovers, Jerry is sleeping in the corner pocket. Tom chases Jerry around the table and the rest of the pool hall. Tom's energetic game of pool is more than Jerry can cope with. Soon, the table becomes a battlefield.

3.6

Cue Ball Cat

1950

Where the Sidewalk Ends

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

3.6

Where the Sidewalk Ends

1950

The Hollywood Bowl

Tom is conducting a symphony at the Hollywood Bowl when Jerry comes out to co-conduct.

3.6

The Hollywood Bowl

1950

The Furies

A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

3.6

The Furies

1950

Stromboli

After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.

3.6

Stromboli

1950

The Flowers of St. Francis

In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis’s time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, The Flowers of St. Francis is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment.

3.6

The Flowers of St. Francis

1950

On the page

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Great Britain

Great Britain

Ordnance Survey

1950

The Return of the King

Elves · Hobbits

The Return of the King

J.R.R. Tolkien

1950

Principles of internal medicine

Internal medicine · Internal medicine,

Principles of internal medicine

Tinsley Randolph Harrison

1950

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

the Blitz · fauns

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

C. S. Lewis

1950

The Martian Chronicles

American Science fiction · Ciencia-ficción

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

1950

A Murder Is Announced

Fiction · Mystery

A Murder Is Announced

Agatha Christie

1950

A town like Alice

Fiction · World War, 1939-1945

A town like Alice

Nevil Shute

1950

I, Robot

smear campaigns · supercomputers

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

1950

Conan the Conqueror

Conan (fictitious character), fiction · Fiction, fantasy, general

Conan the Conqueror

Robert E. Howard

1950

Henry Huggins

Neighborhood Life · Pets

Henry Huggins

Beverly Cleary

1950

The Lonely Crowd

American National characteristics · Character

The Lonely Crowd

David Riesman

1950

To Love And Be Wise (Inspector Alan Grant #4)

Alan Grant (Fictitious character) · Fiction

To Love And Be Wise (Inspector Alan Grant #4)

Josephine Tey

1950

The Wizard of Oz. Mit Materialien.

Fantasy fiction · Children's fiction

The Wizard of Oz. Mit Materialien.

Rosemary Border

1950

First Lensman

Fiction, science fiction, general · American Science fiction

First Lensman

Edward E. Smith

1950

The Grass is Singing

English fiction · Fiction

The Grass is Singing

Doris Lessing

1950

The Dharma Bums

American fiction (fictional works by one author) · Beat generation

The Dharma Bums

Jack Kerouac

1950

Trollkarlens hatt

Children's fiction · Fantasy fiction

Trollkarlens hatt

Tove Jansson

1950

The Foundation Trilogy

American Science fiction · Fiction

The Foundation Trilogy

Isaac Asimov

1950

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