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The Barefoot Contessa
The Barefoot Contessa is Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1954 Technicolor drama starring Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, and Oscar winner Edmond O'Brien, telling a Spanish dancer's rise to stardom in flashback from her funeral.
The Country Girl
The Country Girl (1954) is George Seaton's Paramount drama adapted from Clifford Odets' Broadway play, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and William Holden; seven Oscar nominations, Kelly won Best Actress.
The Defiant Ones
The Defiant Ones (1958) is Stanley Kramer's Oscar-winning drama in which chained convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier escape a Southern chain gang; also a 2017 HBO documentary about Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine.
The Earrings of Madame de...
The Earrings of Madame de... (Madame de...) is Max Ophüls's 1953 French-Italian black-and-white romantic drama, adapted from Louise de Vilmorin's 1951 novel, starring Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, and Vittorio De Sica, tracing diamond earrings that pass between lovers until tragedy; ranked =90 in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll.
The Eddy Duchin Story
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956), also released under working title Music by Duchin, is a Columbia Pictures Technicolor CinemaScope musical biography directed by George Sidney, starring Tyrone Power as pianist Eddy Duchin and Kim Novak as Marjorie Oelrichs, with four Oscar nominations and Carmen Cavallaro's piano.
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (お茶漬の味)
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (お茶漬の味, Ochazuke no aji) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1952 Shochiku drama about an estranged middle-aged couple reconciled through ochazuke; script with Kogo Noda, starring Shin Saburi and Michiyo Kogure.
The Golden Coach
The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d'or) is Jean Renoir's 1953 Technicolor comedy-drama starring Anna Magnani, adapted from Mérimée, set to Vivaldi, about a viceroy of Peru who gives a golden coach to a commedia dell'arte star.
The Greatest Show on Earth (film)
The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 American circus drama directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Charlton Heston and Betty Hutton, that won Best Picture.
The Gypsy and the Gentleman
The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958) is Joseph Losey's British Regency costume melodrama, starring Melina Mercouri as gold-digging gypsy Belle opposite Keith Michell's Sir Paul Deverill; a Rank Organisation box-office failure Losey disowned, later reappraised as a precursor of The Servant.
The Lady from Musashino
The Lady from Musashino (武蔵野夫人, Musashino fujin) is a 1951 Toho black-and-white drama directed by Mizoguchi Kenji, adapted from Ooka Shohei's 1950 bestseller, starring Tanaka Kinuyo as a married woman in love with her cousin, released September 14, 1951.
The Lady of Musashino (武蔵野夫人)
The Lady of Musashino (武蔵野夫人, Musashino fujin) is a 1951 Toho drama directed by Mizoguchi Kenji, adapted from Ōoka Shōhei's 1950 novel, starring Tanaka Kinuyo as a married woman drawn to her cousin in postwar Musashino.
The Last Hurrah
The Last Hurrah is John Ford's 1958 Columbia Pictures comedy-drama starring Spencer Tracy as Mayor Frank Skeffington, adapted from Edwin O'Connor's 1956 novel loosely based on Boston mayor James Curley.
The Left Handed Gun
The Left Handed Gun is Arthur Penn's 1958 Western debut, starring Paul Newman as a psychologically troubled Billy the Kid, adapted from Gore Vidal's 1955 teleplay The Death of Billy the Kid; the title's left-handed premise is a myth from a reversed photograph.
The Life of Oharu (西鶴一代女)
The Life of Oharu (西鶴一代女, Saikaku ichidai onna) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1952 Japanese drama, adapted from Ihara Saikaku's 1686 novel, starring Kinuyo Tanaka as a woman falling from court lady-in-waiting to street prostitute; it won at the 13th Venice Film Festival.
The Lovers
The Lovers (Les Amants) is Louis Malle's 1958 French black-and-white romantic drama starring Jeanne Moreau as a bored bourgeois wife who leaves her husband for a stranger; it won the Venice Special Jury Prize, caused an obscenity scandal, and prompted the US Potter Stewart censorship ruling.
The Man in the Sky
The Man in the Sky (US title Decision Against Time) is a 1957 British Ealing drama-thriller directed by Charles Crichton, starring Jack Hawkins as a test pilot who lands a burning prototype freighter to save his company; Crichton's final Ealing film, BAFTA-nominated screenplay.
The Man Upstairs (1958) is a British drama that traps its audience inside a single escalating crisis: a man in the grip of mental illness barricades himself in his room, and the people outside must decide how to reach him before the situation turns tragic. Directed by Don Chaffey, it is a tense, intimate study of a mind under pressure, anchored by Richard Attenborough in a role that asks for vulnerability rather than charm.
The Man Upstairs (1958) is a British psychological drama directed by Don Chaffey, starring Richard Attenborough as Peter Watson, a guilt-ridden scientist who barricades himself armed in a London boarding house; 88 minutes, real time, no score, A.C.T. Films.
The Nun's Story (film)
The Nun's Story is Fred Zinnemann's 1959 Warner Bros. drama starring Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke, based on Kathryn Hulme's novel about ex-nun Marie-Louise Habets; Congo nursing, Nazi-killed father, eight Oscar nominations.
The Railway Children (1970 film)
The Railway Children (1970) is Lionel Jeffries' British film adaptation of E. Nesbit's 1906 novel, starring Jenny Agutter, Dinah Sheridan, and Bernard Cribbins, filmed at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, Oakworth.
The Rising of the Moon
The Rising of the Moon (1957) is John Ford's Irish anthology film, also titled Three Leaves of the Shamrock, with three segments from Frank O'Connor, Martin J. McHugh, and Lady Gregory, starring Tyrone Power and Abbey Theatre players.
The River and Death
The River and Death (El río y la muerte) is Luis Buñuel's 1954 Mexican drama about a generations-old blood feud between the Anguiano and Menchaca families, adapted from Miguel Álvarez Acosta's novel Muro blanco sobre roca negra; it competed at Venice 1954 and won a 1956 Ariel for music.
The Rose Tattoo
The Rose Tattoo is Daniel Mann's 1955 Paramount film adapted from Tennessee Williams's Broadway play, starring Anna Magnani as widow Serafina Delle Rose and Burt Lancaster; it won three Oscars including Best Actress.
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Spirit of St. Louis is Billy Wilder's 1957 biographical film starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh, adapted from Lindbergh's 1953 Pulitzer-winning autobiography about the first solo nonstop New York to Paris flight; a $6 million Warner Bros. production that underperformed at the box office.
The True Story of Jesse James
The True Story of Jesse James (1957) is a Nicholas Ray Western biopic for Twentieth Century-Fox, starring Robert Wagner and Jeffrey Hunter, remaking the 1939 Jesse James film through flashbacks from Quantrill's Raiders to Bob Ford's 1882 murder of the outlaw.
The Wings of Eagles
The Wings of Eagles is John Ford's 1957 MGM biographical drama starring John Wayne as Navy aviator turned screenwriter Frank "Spig" Wead, with Maureen O'Hara and Dan Dailey, made with Navy cooperation.
Throne of Blood (蜘蛛巣城)
Throne of Blood (蜘蛛巣城, Kumonosu-jo) is Akira Kurosawa's 1957 Toho film adapting Shakespeare's Macbeth to Japan's Sengoku era, starring Toshiro Mifune as Washizu and Isuzu Yamada as Asaji, staged with Noh style and a famous arrow-storm finale.
Titanic (1953 film)
Titanic (1953) is Jean Negulesco's Twentieth Century-Fox black-and-white melodrama starring Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck as an estranged couple aboard the doomed liner; it won the Oscar for Best Story and Screenplay.
Tizoc
Tizoc (Tizoc: Amor indio) is a 1957 Mexican romantic drama by Ismael Rodríguez starring Pedro Infante and María Félix, who won a posthumous Berlin Silver Bear.
Tokyo Story (東京物語)
Tokyo Story (東京物語) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 Shochiku drama about an elderly couple visiting indifferent grown children in postwar Tokyo, starring Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, and Chieko Higashiyama; it topped the 2012 Sight and Sound directors' poll.
Tokyo Twilight (東京暮色)
Tokyo Twilight (東京暮色, Tōkyō boshoku) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1957 Shochiku drama, his last black-and-white film, about two sisters and their absent mother; a contemporary Kinema Jumpo failure now rated 87 on Metacritic.