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Contrast Thread: Here are the top 20 (box office) films of the 1950's. How many have you seen?
12/10/17 | Simon Green

Posted on 12/10/2017 11:43:47 AM PST by Simon Green

I posted a similar thread about more modern films, and while I've seen almost all of them, virtually every response so far is "little" or "none". I thought it might be interesting to contrast a similar list from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Here it is:

1. The Ten Commandments
2. Lady and the Tramp
3. Peter Pan
4. Cinderella
5. Ben-Hur
6. Sleeping Beauty
7. The Bridge on the River Kwai
8. Around the World in 80 Days
9. Rear Window
10. The Greast Show on Earth
11. The Robe
12. Giant
13. From Here to Eternity
14. White Christmas
15. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
16. Sayonara
17. Demetrias and the Gladiators
18. Peyton Place
19. Some Like it Hot
20. Quo Vadis


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; moviereview; top10
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To: gunnyg

It’s a quote from the movie.


61 posted on 12/10/2017 1:23:46 PM PST by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: Simon Green
I'd have to say the Bridge on the River Kwai and Rear Window are the best of the bunch.
62 posted on 12/10/2017 1:24:44 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Wow...2/3 of the top 6 are Disney animations from the era when Disney knew how to make great animated stories.

I'd argue that they still do.

63 posted on 12/10/2017 1:25:42 PM PST by Simon Green
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To: Grampa Dave
All but this one: 17. Demetrias and the Gladiators

You ain't missing much. As Victor Mature himself once said - I'm no actor. And I've done fifty movies that prove it.

64 posted on 12/10/2017 1:26:17 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: 353FMG
Why is “High Noon” not on the list and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”? And “Roman Holiday”?

Box office...

65 posted on 12/10/2017 1:27:17 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Chuckster
I missed two, Sayonara and Rear Window.

I thought Sayonara with Marlon Brando as a fighter jock was a ridiculous bit of casting. James Garner and Red Buttons were good though.

66 posted on 12/10/2017 1:29:06 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Simon Green

All but these

16. Sayonara
17. Demetrias and the Gladiators
18. Peyton Place

As far as new movies... NONE!


67 posted on 12/10/2017 1:30:26 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
It’s probably not close to that list, but 1957’s A Face In The Crowd is an excellent movie.

That movie was way ahead of its time, and a real departure for Andy Griffith.

68 posted on 12/10/2017 1:31:33 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: gunnyg

Ah So!

ThankYa for responding.

++++++++++++++++++++++++


69 posted on 12/10/2017 1:32:49 PM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: Rummyfan

“You ain’t missing much. As Victor Mature himself once said - I’m no actor. And I’ve done fifty movies that prove it.”

BOL, you sound like my wife and a sibling.


70 posted on 12/10/2017 1:45:03 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Build Kate's wall! Keep illegals and illegal murderers/criminals out of America! MAGA! SLAP ACT!!)
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To: Simon Green
Films on this list that I saw in the fifties: Films that I saw in the sixties: And I saw Cinderella (the animated version) for the first time in the seventies
71 posted on 12/10/2017 1:53:59 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: real saxophonist

with John Wayne.

QUIET MAN !! Really a great oldie...


72 posted on 12/10/2017 1:54:03 PM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: Simon Green
I've watched 16 of 20 from beginning to end.

I have only watched parts of Sayonara, Some Like It Hot, White Christmas, and Rear Window.

73 posted on 12/10/2017 1:55:43 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: 353FMG

Breakfast at Tiffany’s came out in 1961.

I guess High Noon and Roman Holiday were not Top 20 at the box office, but both of them are very good films.


74 posted on 12/10/2017 2:01:06 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: Simon Green

I’ve seen all but Demetrias and the Gladiators. Do I still get a prize?


75 posted on 12/10/2017 2:01:39 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: catnipman

“From Here to Eternity” sucked ... so did the book


Yes. But I’ll bet you remember the surf scene.


76 posted on 12/10/2017 2:03:59 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: Simon Green

14


77 posted on 12/10/2017 2:04:27 PM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: Simon Green
14 out of 20.
And the remaining 6 are as unattractive to me today as 50 years ago
78 posted on 12/10/2017 2:05:00 PM PST by publius911 (CBS: "Asking the right questions is 100% of catching sexual abusers")
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To: Simon Green

Five.....I lived in the country. I am surprised South Pacific wasn’t on the list.


79 posted on 12/10/2017 2:10:31 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Toespi
I am surprised South Pacific wasn’t on the list.

Although it came out in 1958, I saw it at a drive-in theater in the summer of 1960.

80 posted on 12/10/2017 2:14:33 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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