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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: Simon Green

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

I answered “none” on your last thread.


41 posted on 12/10/2017 12:28:04 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

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


42 posted on 12/10/2017 12:29:10 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Chuckster

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


43 posted on 12/10/2017 12:33:49 PM PST by stanne
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To: Simon Green

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


44 posted on 12/10/2017 12:38:19 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ((((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))))))
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To: Simon Green

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


45 posted on 12/10/2017 12:39:22 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Gay State Conservative

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


46 posted on 12/10/2017 12:40:34 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: 353FMG
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!

47 posted on 12/10/2017 12:40:44 PM PST by Know et al ( Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: TNoldman

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


48 posted on 12/10/2017 12:41:44 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Simon Green

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”.


49 posted on 12/10/2017 12:43:46 PM PST by yarddog
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To: Simon Green

6


50 posted on 12/10/2017 12:51:53 PM PST by GCFADG (Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.)
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To: Simon Green

#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.


51 posted on 12/10/2017 12:55:03 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Simon Green

12


52 posted on 12/10/2017 12:57:34 PM PST by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: Simon Green

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.


53 posted on 12/10/2017 12:58:14 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Simon Green

only 11 of them.


54 posted on 12/10/2017 12:58:23 PM PST by momtothree
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To: Simon Green

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


55 posted on 12/10/2017 1:05:30 PM PST by iowamark
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To: real saxophonist

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

++++++++++++++++
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!/?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++


56 posted on 12/10/2017 1:08:10 PM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: laplata

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


57 posted on 12/10/2017 1:11:05 PM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: gunnyg
My, my. Look at all that fruit salad. Everything but the Congressional.

Semper Fi

58 posted on 12/10/2017 1:16:56 PM PST by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: real saxophonist

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


59 posted on 12/10/2017 1:21:16 PM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: Simon Green
Never saw Quo Vadis. The rest, yes.
60 posted on 12/10/2017 1:23:37 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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