Contrast Thread: Here are the top 20 (box office) films of the 1950's. How many have you seen?

12/10/17 | Simon Green

[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

[Windflier]

I’ve seen twelve out those twenty films, but then, I am a baby boomer.

I answered “none” on your last thread.

[Karl Spooner]

High Noon came in at #57. Complete list:

IMDb_ Top-US-Grossing Feature Films Released 1950-01-01 to 1959-12-31
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?release_date=1950,1959&sort=boxoffice_gross_us&title_type=feature

[stanne]

Rear Window is one of the three best on that list.

[bunkerhill7]

All, 3 times at least each one, eating popcorn, on the big screen, on a sticky floor.

[Nifster]

Ah The Robe is a classic. Plays almost every Easter.

I’ve seen all of them. Some only a few times. Most I’ve seen many many times

[Nifster]

You really ought to see David Niven in Around the Eorld in Ighty Days...it’s a delight

[Know et al]

Why is “High Noon” not on the list and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”?
And “Roman Holiday”?

Wasn't Spartacus in the 50’s? Great movie!

[Nifster]

You don’t watch White Christmas and The Bishop’s Wife as well?

[yarddog]

There are a couple I have not seen and maybe a couple more that I just can’t remember for sure.

BTW, Perry Mason made a great villain in “Rear Window”.

[GCFADG]

6

[VanDeKoik]

#16 and 20 I have not.

All the rest were on constantly in the 80s on a Sat or Sun afternoon. Rainy days would have us in front of the TV watching the afternoon movie on WKBD out of Detroit.

[2111USMC]

12

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow...2/3 of the top 6 are Disney animations from the era when Disney knew how to make great animated stories.

I’ve seen 15 out of 20.

[momtothree]

only 11 of them.

[iowamark]

Hard to believe that North by Northwest and Vertigo are not on that list.

[gunnyg]

Right-O! On The DI!!!!!!
Best DI movie ever—NO EXCEPTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Also great! Duke Wayne’s The Searachers, 1956?

Was classified as non-PC even way back then (or wtf ever they called it then.

Dick Gaines aka: Gunny G @ Planet WTF!
Semper POTUS.45 TRUMP...IF We Can Keep Him!/?
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[gunnyg]

Yeh!
There was also another FHTE TV Version that was very good too!

[real saxophonist]

My, my. Look at all that fruit salad. Everything but the Congressional.

Semper Fi

[gunnyg]

real saxophonist to gunnyg
My, my. Look at all that fruit salad. Everything but the Congressional.
Semper Fi
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[Rummyfan]

Never saw Quo Vadis. The rest, yes.