Quai de Grenelle (1950) ***

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To Joy (1950) ***

Ingmar Bergman's melodrama about a young married couple who play together in an orchestra.

Dona Diabla (1950) ***

The Munekata Sisters (1950) ***

Story of two sisters, one of them married to an alcoholic.

Totò sceicco (1950) ***

Ratavartijan kaunis Inkeri (1950)

Annie Get Your Gun (1950) ***

Many showstoppers in this entertaining MGM musical about two competing sharpshooters on rival Wild West shows.

Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil (1950)

Shadow On The Wall (1950) ***

Tense thriller about a child in danger. Probably Nancy Reagan's (then known as Nancy Davis) best film.

Cossacks Of The Kuban (1950) ***

A fabulous opening scene (excerpted in "East Side Story"), but otherwise a routine musical set in Southern Russia. A perfect example of Stalinist propaganda.

La Congolaise (1950) ***

Bajaja (1950) ***

Two Weeks With Love (1950) ***

Jane Powell is as delightful as ever, but it's Debbie Reynolds who steals the show as her younger sister in this nostalgic musical set in the Catskills. Musical numbers include:

"A Heart That's Free"  **
"That's How I Need You"  *
"The Oceana Roll"  ***
"Aba Daba Honeymoon"  **
"By The Light Of The Silvery Moon"  **
"Beautiful Lady"
"My Hero"  **
"Row Row Row"  **

Too Hot To Handle (1950) ***

Caged (1950) ***

Impressive WIP drama starring Eleanor Parker.

Les Lumières de ma ville (1950) **

Dom na pustkowiu (1950) **

During World War II, two women, living in a remote house in the Polish countryside, agree to hide an escaped prisoner hiding from the Nazis.

No Way Out (1950) **

A racist criminal (Richard Widmark) wants to murder a black physician (Sidney Poitier) whom he accuses of killing his brother.

With These Hands (1950) **

Unusual documentary about a trade union.

Scandal (1950) **

Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) **

Born Yesterday (1950) **

Panic In The Streets (1950) **

Crime movie about an outbreak of bubonic plague.

The Magnificent Yankee (1950) *

Boring biopic about Oliver Wendel Holmes. The film doesn't even mention his most famous secretary, Alger Hiss. Nor his most famous quote, "Three generations of imbeciles is enough".

Au dela des grilles (1950) *

Even Jean Gabin (in possibly the worst, and certainly the laziest, performance of his career) cannot save this lousy melodrama about a French fugitive in Genova.

Un Chant d'amour (1950) *****

Storstrom Bridge (1950) ***

Eaten Horizons (1950) ***

Goldilocks (1950) ***

Oslo 24 timer av byens liv (1950) ***

Citizens Of Tomorrow (1950) ***

Children Of The City (1950) ***

Rabbit's Moon (1950) ***

A good song, oneiric visuals, enchanting film. Directed by Kenneth Anger.

Grandad Of Races (1950) ***

Short documentary about horse races in Siena.

These Girls Are Fools (1950) ***

My Country 'Tis Of Thee (1950) ***

Super-patriotic documentary short about the entire history of the United States.

Grandma Moses (1950) **

Very interesting, but conventional documentary about a great American painter.

Crashing The Movies (1950) **

Comic short about dangerous stunts.

In Beaver Valley (1950) **

Aventurera (1950) *****

One of the greatest Latin American melodramas ever made, so unbelievably over-the-top, it will never cease to amaze and to enchant.

Broken Arrow (1950) ***

James Stewart plays an idealist who arranges a peace treaty between the Apaches and the US government. Tense, thoughtful western presenting a pro-Indian point-of-view.

Cinderella (1950) ***

Entertaining, animated fairy-tale from the Disney studio. Songs: 

"Cinderella" * 

"A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" ** 

"Sing Sweet Nightingale" 

"The Work Songs" ** 

"Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" ** 

"So This Is Love" *

Father Of The Bride (1950) ***

Spencer Tracy plays the father, Elizabeth Taylor plays the bride.

The Flame And The Arrow (1950) ***

Superlative adventure film about an Italian outlaw (Burt Lancaster) kidnapping a German princess.

In A Lonely Place (1950) ***

Humphrey Bogart plays a writer suspected of murder.

Let's Dance (1950) ***

Probably Fred Astaire's weakest musical, but still interesting for a couple of inventive dance routines. Numbers include:

"Can't Stop Talking"
"Piano Dance" **
"Jack And The Beanstalk"
"Oh, Them Dudes" **
"Why Fight The Feeling"
"Tunnel Of Love" *

Stage Fright (1950) ***

A whodunit directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Relying more on mystery than on suspense, it's closer in spirit to Agatha Christie's novels than to the Master's other films.

Summer Stock (1950) ***

Judy Garland's last MGM musical.

Three Little Words (1950) ***

Musical biography of Bert Kalmar (Fred Astaire) and Harry Ruby (Red Skelton). Songs:

"Where Did You Get That Girl ?" **
"Mr And Mrs Hoofer At Home" *
"My Sunny Tennessee" *
"So Long, Oo-Long" **
"Who's Sorry Now ?" **
"Test Solo" **
"Come On, Papa" **
"Nevertheless" **
"All Alone Monday" **
"You Smiled At Me" *
"All Alone Monday" (reprise) *
"I Wanna Be Loved By You" **
"Thinking Of You" **
"I Love You So Much" **
"Thinking Of You" (reprise) *
"And-Then-We-Wrote Medley" *
"Three Little Words" **

Trio (1950) ***

Three short films.

Union Station (1950) ***

Fast-paced, exciting thriller about the kidnapping of a blind girl.

Francis (1950) *

Francis the Talking Mule is helping a young soldier (Donald O'Connor). The first in a popular series.

Winchester '73 (1950) ***

Excellent western starring James Stewart.

King Solomon's Mines (1950) ***

Spectacular adventure film, co-directed by Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton. ***

Harvey (1950) ***

James Stewart firmly believes that his best friend is a six-foot invisible rabbit named Harvey.

The Gunfighter (1950) *****

Henry King's masterpiece and one of the best westerns of the 50's. Tense, suspenseful, and extremely well made.

The Asphalt Jungle (1950) ****

Superb heist movie, almost as good as "The Killing" (1956).

All About Eve (1950) *****

Superb dialogue in this incisive drama about a great stage actress (Bette Davis) and her ambitious understudy (Anne Baxter).

Sunset Boulevard (1950) *****

A great classic of Hollywood cinema, starring William Holden as a failed screenwriter who finds himself in a mansion of an aging movie star (Gloria Swanson).

The Rabbit Of Seville (1950) *****

An outstanding musical cartoon with Bugs Bunny escaping from hunter Elmer Fudd and finding a refuge in Hollywood Bowl during the performance of Rossini's "The Barber Of Seville". While not nearly as spectacular as "What's Opera, Doc ?" (1957), it's certainly as funny a spoof of operatic conventions and a superbly timed, endlessly inventive and wonderfully entertaining cartoon classic in its own right.

Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950) *****

The UPA studio's most famous film and a seminal work in the history of animation. The story of a little boy (who doesn't speak, but goes "boing boing" instead) benefits from UPA's trademark limited animation and the "graphic art" style of design. The film offers a contrast between the simplicity of its concept and the painstaking complexity of execution: simply drawn characters are set among sparse, but boldly designed backgrounds (there are neither floors nor walls, only rugs and pictures suggest the limits of space), colors are used to convey the mood of characters (yellows and greens for happiness, blues for rejection and pain). The stylistic innovations introduced in this Oscar-winning masterpiece would strongly influence all major animation studios for decades.

The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950) *****

Daffy complaints about being typecast to death in comic roles and proposes a script by Daffy Dumas Duck, where he can play a dashing hero. The maiden he saves is simply delighted, but her High Lord father (Porky Pig as Claude Rains) is simply furious and Daffy must fight duels with Sylvester as Basil Rathbone's Grand Duke. Concluded with a hilariously overworked climax (which includes erupting volcanos and skyrocketing kosher food prices), this fabulous cartoon is a splendid homage to the classic Michael Curtiz/Errol Flynn swashbucklers of 1930's.

Boobs In The Woods (1950) ****

Probably Bob McKimson's funniest cartoon starring Daffy at his zaniest - constantly heckling and tormenting poor painter Porky Pig. Absolutely wacky and insane in the best Warners' tradition, with dozens of hilarious gags (including Porky showing a permit to "use Daffy as a motor" and the duck arresting Porky for "hunting ducks out of season", choping his head off and dressing as an Native American maiden to save him).

Motor Mania (1950) ****

One of Goofy's all-time bests, this pseudo-didactic cartoon exposes the dangers of reckless driving, while entertaining the audience with a "Jekyll and Hyde" story of how a gentle Mr Walker on the sidewalk becomes a furious Mr Wheeler on the road.

Hillbilly Hare (1950) ****

A Bugs Bunny cartoon set in a remote corner of the Ozarks. The best and funniest sequence has the rabbit singing a hilarious hillbilly song, while the local folks follow its dumb lyrics to the letter ("whomp him low and whomp him high, stick your finger in his eye ... bang your head against the ground").