Favorite Films
1950's
Cyrano de Bergerac
1950
Jose Ferrer
(A tragic wit, renowned for his nose but longing for the love of a beautiful lady.)
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway
(bank clerk in scheme to steal gold.)
The Man in the White Suit
1952
Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood
(Guinness is Chemist, inventor, who discovers a fabric that can't wear out or soil. Dismayed garment manufacturers set out to bury his formula)
Captain's Paradise
1953
Alec Guiness, Celia Johnson, Yvonne de Carlo
(Captain who shuttles back and forth between wives in different ports)
Roman Holiday
1953
Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert
(princess, yearning for normal life, runs away
from Palace,
has romance with reporter Peck)
I Confess
1953
Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
(A priest hears a murder's confession and is himself accused of the crime)
Sabrina
1954
Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden
(chauffeur's daughter romanced by aging tycoon
Bogart,
to keep her away from playboy brother Holden)
Barefoot Contesa
1954
Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
(Tragic story of Hollywood Star)
Beat the Devil
1954
Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gino Lollabrigida
(Truman Capote's funny satire of MALTESE FALCON-ish story)
Father Brown
(The Detective)
1954
Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch
(clerical sleuth after stolen art treasures)
Bad Day at Black Rock
1955
Spencer Tracy, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger
(War hero honored in Western town with a
secret
atrocity against the hero's parents)
East of Eden
1955
James Dean, Julie Harris, Burl Ives
(Steinbeck's novel about two brother's rivalry for the love of their father.)
The Trouble with Harry
1955
Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe
(Hitchcock comedy with bothersome corpse
causing problems for peaceful New England neighbors.)
Richard III
1955
Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson
Sir John Gielgud, Claire Bloom
(story of Richard of Gloucester, twisted both in
mind and body,
as he schemes for the throne of England)
Oklahoma
1955
Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae, Rod Steiger
(screen version of Rogers and Hammerstein's musical)
The Teahouse of the August Moon
1956
Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Eddie Albert
(Americanization of post WWII Okinawa)
Moby Dick
1956
Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn
(Herman Melville's classic about Capt. Ahab's obsession for
revenge upon the enormous white whale, "Moby Dick".)
12 Angry Men
1957
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall
(Man who tries to convince 11 other jurors
that their hasty conviction of a boy on trial should be reconsidered.)
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