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

[real saxophonist]

It’s a quote from the movie.

[Rummyfan]

I'd have to say the Bridge on the River Kwai and Rear Window are the best of the bunch.

[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'd argue that they still do.

[Rummyfan]

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.

[Rummyfan]

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

Box office...

[Rummyfan]

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.

[P-Marlowe]

All but these

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

As far as new movies... NONE!

[Rummyfan]

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.

[gunnyg]

Ah So!

ThankYa for responding.

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[Grampa Dave]

“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.

[Fiji Hill]

Films on this list that I saw in the fifties:

• Around the World in 80 Days
  
• The Sleeping Beauty
  

Films that I saw in the sixties:

• Peter Pan
  
• Ben Hur
  
• The 10 Commandments
  
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
  
• Quo Vadis?

And I saw Cinderella (the animated version) for the first time in the seventies

[litehaus]

with John Wayne.

QUIET MAN !! Really a great oldie...

[zeestephen]

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.

[zeestephen]

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.

[sparklite2]

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

[sparklite2]

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

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

[A Navy Vet]

14

[publius911]

14 out of 20.
And the remaining 6 are as unattractive to me today as 50 years ago

[Toespi]

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

[Fiji Hill]

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.