1950’s Cinema

My Favorite Nicholas Ray Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Bigger Than Life (1956)

2.   Johnny Guitar (1954)

3.   Bitter Victory (1957)

4.   They Live by Night (1949)

5.   In a Lonely Place (1950)

6.   The Lusty Men (1952)

7.   Party Girl (1958)

8.   Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

9.   The Savage Innocents (1960)

10. Wind Across the Everglades (1958)

11. We Can’t Go Home Again (1976)

12. On Dangerous Ground (1952)

13. Hot Blood (1956)

14. The True Story of Jesse James (1957)

15. Born to Be Bad (1950)

16. Run for Cover (1955)

17. Lightning Over Water (1980)
(co-directed with Wim Wenders)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Otto Preminger Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

2.   Angel Face (1953)

3.   Bonjour Tristesse (1958)

4.   Laura (1944)

5.   Daisy Kenyon (1947)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Fallen Angel (1945)

2.   Such Good Friends (1971)

3.   Whirlpool (1949)

4.   Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

5.   Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

6.   Porgy and Bess (1959)
(I watched it online)

7.   The 13th Letter (1951)

My Favorite Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

2.   The Red Shoes (1948)

3.   Peeping Tom (1960)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

4.   Black Narcissus (1947)

5.   The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

6.   The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

7.   I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

8.   Gone to Earth (1950)
(I watched it on youtube)

9.   A Canterbury Tale (1944)

10. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
(co-directed with Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan)

11. The Small Back Room (1949)

12. The Edge of the World (1937)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

13. Age of Consent (1969)
(Pressburger had no involvement)

14. Return to the Edge of the World (1978)
(TV Documentary)

My Favorite Sam Peckinpah Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Wild Bunch (1969)

2.   Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

3.   Ride the High Country (1962)

4.   Cross of Iron (1977)

5.   The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

6.   Junior Bonner (1972)

7.   ABC Stage 67 (1966)
7a. Episode: “Noon Wine”
(Television)

8.   Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

9.   Straw Dogs (1971)

10. Major Dundee (1965)

11. The Getaway (1972)

12. The Osterman Weekend (1983)

13. The Killer Elite (1975)

14. Convoy (1978)

15. Route 66 (1961)
15a. Episode: “Mon Petit Chou”
(Television)

16. The Deadly Companions (1961)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   The Rifleman – Season 1 (1958-1959)
1a. Episode: “The Marshall” (1958)
1b. Episode: “The Boarding House” (1959)
1c. Episode: “The Money Gun” (1959)
(Television)

2.   The Rifleman – Season 2 (1960)
(Episode: “The Baby Sitter”
(Television)

3.   The Westerner – Season 1 (1960)
3a. Episode: “Jeff”
3b. Episode: “Brown”
3c. Episode: “The Courting of Libby”
3d. Episode: “Hand on the Gun”
3e. Episode: “The Painting”
(Television)

4.   Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre – Season 3 (1959)
4a. Episode: “Trouble at Tres Cruces”
(Television)

5.   Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre – Season 4 (1959-1960)
5a. Episode: “Lonesome Road” (1959)
5b. Episode: “Miss Jenny” (1960)
(Television)

My Favorite Yasujiro Ozu Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Tokyo Story (1953)

2.   Late Spring (1949)

3.   An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

4.   I Was Born, But… (1932)

5.   Early Summer (1951)

6.   Tokyo Twilight (1957)

7.   Late Autumn (1960)

8.   The End of Summer (1961)

9.   Floating Weeds (1959)

10. Equinox Flower (1958)

11. The Only Son (1936)

12. Good Morning (1959)

13. A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)

14. There Was a Father (1942)

15. Early Spring (1956)

16. Passing Fancy (1933)

17. Tokyo Chorus (1931)

18. Dragnet Girl (1933)

19. That Night’s Wife (1930)

20. Walk Cheerfully (1930)

My Favorite Max Ophuls Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)

2.   Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

3.   Lola Montes (1955)

4.   The Reckless Moment (1949)

5.   La Ronde (1950)

6.   Caught (1949)

7.   Le Plaisir (1952)

8.   Liebelei (1933)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

9.   Everybody’s Woman (1934)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

10. The Exile (1947)

My Favorite Mikio Naruse Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
(I saw it on an old VHS Tape)

2.   When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)

3.   Every-Night Dreams (1933)

4.   Apart From You (1933)

5.   Street Without End (1934)

6.   No Blood Relation (1932)

7.   Flunky, Work Hard (1931)

My Favorite Kenji Mizoguchi Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

2.   The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)

3.   Ugetsu (1953)

4.   The Life of Oharu (1952)

5.   Street of Shame (1956)

6.   Osaka Elegy (1936)

7.   Women of the Night (1948)

8.   Sisters of the Gion (1936)

9.   The 47 Ronin (1941)

My Favorite Vincente Minnelli Films

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 

2.   Lust for Life (1956)

3.   Home from the Hill (1960)

4.   Some Came Running (1958)

5.   The Band Wagon (1953)

6.   The Cobweb (1955)

7.   Madame Bovary (1949)

8.   The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

9.   The Bad and the Beautiful (1950)

10. Father of the Bride (1950)

11. An American in Paris (1951)

12. Gigi (1958)

13. The Pirate (1948)

14. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

15. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

16. Goodbye Charlie (1964)

17. Designing Woman (1957)

18. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)

19. Tea and Sympathy (1956)

20. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

21. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)

22. The Clock (1945)

23. The Sandpiper (1965)

24. Cabin in the Sky (1943)

25. A Matter of Time (1976)

26. Bells are Ringing (1960)

27. The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

28. Brigadoon (1954)

29. Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

30. Kismet (1955)

31. Undercurrent (1946)

32. I Dood It (1943)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Segments)

1.   Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
(Segments: “This Heart of Mine”, “Limehouse Blues”, “A Great Lady Has an Interview”, “The Babbit and the Bromide” and “Beauty”)

2.   The Story of Three Loves (1953)
(Segment: “Mademoiselle”)
(Anthology Film)

3.   Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
(Judy Garland sequences)
(Uncredited)

4.   Lovely to Look At (1952)
(Fashion Show sequences)
(Uncredited)