Contrast Thread: Here are the top 20 (box office) films of the 1950's. How many have you seen?

12/10/17 | Simon Green

[Windflier]

I’ve seen twelve out those twenty films, but then, I am a baby boomer.

I answered “none” on your last thread.

[Karl Spooner]

High Noon came in at #57. Complete list:

IMDb_ Top-US-Grossing Feature Films Released 1950-01-01 to 1959-12-31
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?release_date=1950,1959&sort=boxoffice_gross_us&title_type=feature

[stanne]

Rear Window is one of the three best on that list.

[bunkerhill7]

All, 3 times at least each one, eating popcorn, on the big screen, on a sticky floor.

[Nifster]

Ah The Robe is a classic. Plays almost every Easter.

I’ve seen all of them. Some only a few times. Most I’ve seen many many times

[Nifster]

You really ought to see David Niven in Around the Eorld in Ighty Days...it’s a delight

[Know et al]

Why is “High Noon” not on the list and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”?
And “Roman Holiday”?

Wasn't Spartacus in the 50’s? Great movie!

[Nifster]

You don’t watch White Christmas and The Bishop’s Wife as well?

[yarddog]

There are a couple I have not seen and maybe a couple more that I just can’t remember for sure.

BTW, Perry Mason made a great villain in “Rear Window”.

[GCFADG]

6

[VanDeKoik]

#16 and 20 I have not.

All the rest were on constantly in the 80s on a Sat or Sun afternoon. Rainy days would have us in front of the TV watching the afternoon movie on WKBD out of Detroit.

[2111USMC]

12

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow...2/3 of the top 6 are Disney animations from the era when Disney knew how to make great animated stories.

I’ve seen 15 out of 20.

[momtothree]

only 11 of them.

[iowamark]

Hard to believe that North by Northwest and Vertigo are not on that list.

[gunnyg]

Right-O! On The DI!!!!!!
Best DI movie ever—NO EXCEPTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Also great! Duke Wayne’s The Searachers, 1956?

Was classified as non-PC even way back then (or wtf ever they called it then.

Dick Gaines aka: Gunny G @ Planet WTF!
Semper POTUS.45 TRUMP...IF We Can Keep Him!/?
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[gunnyg]

Yeh!
There was also another FHTE TV Version that was very good too!

[real saxophonist]

My, my. Look at all that fruit salad. Everything but the Congressional.

Semper Fi

[gunnyg]

real saxophonist to gunnyg
My, my. Look at all that fruit salad. Everything but the Congressional.
Semper Fi
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[Rummyfan]

Never saw Quo Vadis. The rest, yes.