May 20, 1970

Top 10 Films of the 1950's

1. "Singin' In The Rain" (1952, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, USA)

2. "The Seven Samurai" (1954, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)

3. "Rear Window" (1954, Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

4. "Wild Strawberries" (1957, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)

5. "The Band Wagon" (1953, Vincente Minnelli, USA)

6. "Some Like It Hot" (1959, Billy Wilder, USA)

7. "High Noon" (1952, Fred Zinnemann, USA)

8. "The Gunfighter" (1950, Henry King, USA)

9. "The Searchers" (1956, John Ford, USA)

10. "Sunset Boulevard" (1950, Billy Wilder, USA)


Short Top 10

1. "Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick" (1959, Jean-Luc Godard, France)

2. "Portret mezczyzny z medalem" (1959, Witold Leszczynski, Poland)

3. "Nuit et brouillard" (1956, Alain Resnais, France)

4. "Window Water Baby Moving" (1959, Stan Brakhage, USA)

5. "Dwaj ludzie z szafa" (1958, Roman Polanski, Poland)

6. "Le Ballon rouge" (1956, Albert Lamorisse, France)

7. "A Movie" (1958, Bruce Conner, USA)

8. "Niedzielny poranek" (1955, Andrzej Munk, Poland)

9. "Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome" (1954, Kenneth Anger, USA)

10. "L'Opera-mouffe" (1958, Agnes Varda, France)


Commercial Top 5

1. "Lion" (1957, Dreyfus Fund)

2. "Princess" (1951, Halo Shampoo)

3. "Where There's Life There's Bud" (1956, Budweiser)

4. "White Rain" (1954, White Rain Shampoo)

5. "Goldilocks" (1950, Halo Shampoo)


TV Top 5:

1. "The George Burns And Gracie Allen Show: Columbia Picture Doing Burns And Allen Story" (1954, Frederick De Cordova, CBS)

2. "I Love Lucy: Lucy Does A TV Commercial" (1952, Marc Daniels, CBS)

3. "The Twilight Zone: Time Enough At Last" (1959, John Brahm, CBS)

4. "I Love Lucy: The Girls Want To Go To The Nightclub" (1951, Marc Daniels, CBS)

5. "The Honeymooners: TV Or Not TV" (1955, Frank Satenstein, CBS)


Cartoon Top 10

1. "Duck Amuck" (1953, Chuck Jones, Warner)

2. "What's Opera Doc?" (1957, Chuck Jones, Warner)

3. "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1953, Ted Parmelee, Columbia)

4. "One Froggy Evening" (1955, Chuck Jones, Warner)

5. "Duck Dodgers In The 24 1/2 Century" (1953, Chuck Jones, Warner)

6. "Pigs Is Pigs" (1954, Jack Kinney, Disney)

7. "Gerald McBoing-Boing" (1950, Robert Cannon, Columbia)

8. "Toot Whistle Plunk And Boom" (1953, Ward Kimball, Charles Nichols, Disney)

9. "The Rabbit Of Seville" (1950, Chuck Jones, Warner)

10. "Symphony In Slang" (1951, Tex Avery, MGM)


Other films from the 1950's:

Top 10 Films of 1950
Top 10 Films of 1951
Top 10 Films of 1952
Top 10 Films of 1953
Top 10 Films of 1954
Top 10 Films of 1955
Top 10 Films of 1956
Top 10 Films of 1957
Top 10 Films of 1958
Top 10 Films of 1959