Movies I Have Seen: 1950's

A girl from Kansas arrives in New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.

A millionaire tries to buy his dying daughter a husband.

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

A burlesque comic, who resembles an international spy, is recruited by the government and sent to Tangier to retrieve a sensitive microfilm before it's captured by hostile foreign agents.

A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.

A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.

A nightclub singer has a racketeer for a manager and a rivalry with his pianist for a girl.

A Czech circus owner and clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the Iron Curtain.

Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?

Two married New Yorkers purchase an old, run-down building full of colorful tenants.

Three Broadway producers struggling to get backing for their show, hope one's sudden inheritance of a half interest in a Parisian fashion house is the answer. They travel to Paris only to learn the salon is in debt and requires their help.

Set in 17th century England, a young woman falls in love with a humble villager whose community suffers under the rule of her despotic landowning family.

A young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.

A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during World War II married a French girl who was murdered by the Germans. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but who he has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.

A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.

An orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer.

The Halsworths' nearly-final divorce suddenly gets complicated when Miriam's old flame comes to town.

Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway producer who has always been too busy for his children, Barbara and Jerry. His girlfriend Carolina, a musical comedy star, urges Jordan to take his kids on a vacation and get to know them before they are all grown up. Is Jordan already too late?

Nightclub comic Hap Smith assumes the identity of another soldier so he can tour army bases in a revue with his ex-partner Chuck Allen.

The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.

Abbott and Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.

In 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription.

What happens when an American family gets two trees that grow spendable money.

A tough, hard-driving business tycoon suffers a broken leg and is left to die in the desert by his scheming wife and her greedy lover.