A somewhat dated melodrama about people who are deeply unhappy despite being extremely pretty. One of them falls out of a rowboat.
Tag Archives: 1950s Movies
ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)
Audrey Hepburn is a princess slumming it with Gregory Peck’s American reporter in this high-class 1950s version of the same movie that Netflix has made like ten times already.
JALSAGHAR (1958)
In which a king sacrifices basically everything that matters for the sake of his own pride, manifested through giving Indian classical music parties, as you do.
ÉL (1953)
At one time one of the lesser-known films of the great director Luis Buñuel, this melodrama about abuse and privilege now seems decades ahead of its time.
WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954)
Great Irving Berlin songs, great performances, and a plot you shouldn’t think about too hard.
BEN-HUR (1959)
The biggest hit of its day has a supreme technical achievement slung over a story that feels to me like middling Bible fanfic.
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)
James Dean’s most famous role, in the movie that kind of invented being a teenager.
OUR 100th MOVIE: SEVEN SAMURAI (1954)
Akira Kurosawa invented many of the tropes of the modern action movie in this great Japanese epic.
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
Showbiz is an eternal, elemental struggle in one of the greatest of all satires.
THE SEARCHERS (1956)
John Wayne drags a handsome guy around the American West because he is so racist. It’s kind of like the Odyssey.
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