Best Drama Films of 1950
Quicksand
Mickey Rooney, with his ... to him, he ends up on the run alone, with a gun in hand, as the law closes in. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Kim
Errol Flynn is top-billed ... was filmed on location in India, some of the more complicated exterior sequences were lensed in Lone Pine, California. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Trail of Robin Hood
Filmed in eye-pleasing Trucolor, ... others. Cheseboro wins them over by explaining "After 20 years of being beaten up by Holt, he's reformed me." [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Morning Departure
Morning Departure isn't about ... to raving lunacy. Based on a play by Kenneth Wooland, Morning Departure was released in America as Operation Disaster. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
No Way Out
A pioneering film about ... a hot potato in 1962, when NBC dropped plans to telecast the film on "Saturday Night at the Movies." [ best drama films - 1950 ]
The House by the River
Fritz Lang was the ... hint of miscegenation was taboo in 1950), but House by the River turned out pretty well all the same. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
The Capture
Virtually ignored at the ... the man he'd killed so long before. The Capture was produced by Niven Busch, the then-husband of Teresa Wright. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
The Big Lift
Filmed on location, The ... war), while Montgomery Clift costars as a pilot who inaugurates a doomed love affair with German girl Cornell Borchers. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Caged
Caged, considered the best ... her fate, nor does it absolve society as it shows the results of desperation and brutalization on human dignity. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
The Jackie Robinson Story
Despite its lack of ... his brother Mac, Minor Watson as Branch Rickey, and best of all, Richard Lane as Montreal manager Clay Hopper. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
The Torch
The Torch was originally ... includes Gilbert Roland as a kindly priest and Walter Reed as an American doctor who also yearns for Goddard. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Three Came Home
Based on the autobiographical ... Since lapsing into the public domain in 1977, Three Came Home has popped up innumerable times on cable television. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Cyrano De Bergerac
Recreating his stage role, ... resulted in an early release to television, where it has remained a perennial attraction for the past forty years. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Guilty of Treason
Made in the same ... during his trial, it was revealed that his confession was obtained by the use of torture, hypnosis and drugs. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Johnny One-Eye
Johnny One-Eye was adapted ... a moll named Lily White. The film represented the last directorial assignment of Robert Florey, who retired shortly afterward. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
The Kid
Adapted from the popular ... boy realize the benefits of honest living by teaching him how to better balance his studies with his work. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Madeleine
David Lean's Madeleine was ... and Nicholas Phipps refuse to take sides, permitting the viewers to draw their own conclusions about the notorious Madeleine. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Fröken Julie
Froken Julie (Miss Julie) ... Sjoberg's international reputation as a filmmaker of distinction (despite the efforts by American censors to "water down" the film). [ best drama films - 1950 ]
The Flowers of St. Francis
Flowers of St. Francis ... get to our shores, at least two reels were cut; we recommend the somewhat more thorough British release version. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Les Enfants Terribles
Adapted by Jean Cocteau ... of the male bully Dargelos. This film was completed in 1952, but not released in the U.S. until 1975. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Pirates of the High Seas [Serial]
The no longer youthful ... of the Congo (1952) before retiring to become director of water sports at a resort hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Julius Caesar
This drama tells of ... powerful rise of emperor Julius Caesar along with his swift fall in this adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Cronaca di un Amore
Michelangelo Antonioni's first narrative ... a Love Affair would mark Antonioni as a maverick among the prevailing neorealists of the post-war Italian film community. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
En Carne Viva
A beautiful cabaret dancer ... new life, the discovery that Fernando is alive and married leaves the lovelorn dancer wrestling with an uncertain fate. [ best drama films - 1950 ]
Treasury Men in Action [TV Series]
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Yo Quiero Ser Tonta
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La Posesion
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Primero Soy Mexicano
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Una Mujer Sin Destino
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Council of the Gods
Filmmaker Kurt Maetzig holds ... Republic, Council of the Gods addresses many powerful themes that still resonate over fifty-years after it was originally produced. [ best drama films - 1950 ]Supplemental Navigation
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