Many Reasons Why The 50's Was The Best Decade For Movies

Submitted by thecritic on Tue, 04/24/2001 - 10:14
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  • North by Northwest
  • Touch of Evil
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Sunset Blvd.
  • All About Eve
  • Orpheus
  • Singin' in the Rain
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Vertigo
  • Strangers on a Train
  • Rashomon
  • From Here to Eternity
  • Tokyo Story
  • Rear Window
  • On the Waterfront
  • The Seven Samurai
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Rebel Without a Cause
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Pather Panchali
  • The World of Apu
  • Ben-Hur
  • The Seventh Seal
  • The Searchers
  • Wild Strawberries
  • Ashes and Diamonds
  • A Man Escaped
  • Lola Montes
  • La Strada
  • Sansho the Bailiff
  • Ugetsu
  • Shane
  • The Band Wagon
  • Othello
  • The Life of Oharu
  • High Noon
  • Scrooge
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • Night and the City
  • An American in Paris
  • A Place in the Sun
  • Detective Story
  • The Thing
  • The Red Badge of Courage
  • Ikiru
  • Umberto D.
  • The Big Heat
  • Roman Holiday
  • Stalag 17
  • A Star is Borm
  • East of Eden
  • Marty
  • Mister Roberts
  • Ordet
  • The Red Balloon
  • The Burmese Harp
  • Forbidden Planet
  • The Killing
  • Requiem for a Heavyweight
  • Patterns
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
  • The Cranes are Flying
  • Paths of Glory
  • Throne of Blood
  • Witness for the Prosecution
  • I Want to Live
  • A Night to Remember
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • Pickpocket
  • Rio Bravo
  • Anatomy of a Murder
  • The 400 Blows
Author Comments: 

My humble apologies to J. Black, who I am afraid is simply wrong in this matter.

Cloned From: 
Many Reasons Why The 70's Was The Best Decade For Movies
lbangs04/24/2001

Beautiful!

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

jblack04/24/2001

Thats simply your opinion. I think I'm right. I'll match my movies against yours any day.

lbangs04/24/2001

I assume you're talking to thecritic, and not to me?

To be honest, I don't really care. Pegging one decade over another is a bit too abstract and silly for me, but I do get a bit tired of people acting as if the 70s were the only golden age for films. Is it a coincidence that most of these people were raised in the 70s? Is this just another recency craze in disguise?

I don't know, but the wonderful 50s do get over-looked while the 70s are hyped to high heaven, so seeing that, I love this list. He's got over 50 great films up there, and he helps remind us how great films were in the 50s.

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs (who also loves the 70s)

thecritic04/24/2001

This sounds like High Noon or Shane. A showdown?

Hell, we are living a 50s film!

jblack04/25/2001

The 50's were awesome..I'm not doubting that. Shit man, you got some great films from the 50's. Every decade has great films.

thecritic04/25/2001

Yes, but the 50s and the 70s do seem to have an awful lot of great films, don't they?

dgeiser1304/25/2001

Maybe it's a 20 year thing. Perhaps people are trying to make up for the relatively poor filmmaking of the previous decade. That means we're starting a bad film decade. Someone should do the 90s.

jblack04/28/2001

It sounds like you should do the honors Dan. Do the 90's bro!!