A lesser effort by Lang as his Hitchcockian-lite crime noir sees a writer who had inadvertently killed his maid trying to implicate his brother in the covering up of the murder.
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House by the River (1950)
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Tag / 1950
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All About Eve (1950)
Mankiewicz’s enduring classic about the glamour of showbiz, warts and all, marked by loyal friendships and diabolical schemes, remains one of the wittiest and spriteliest of Classical Hollywood dramas.
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In a Lonely Place (1950)
Humphrey Bogart has never been better in Nic Ray’s atypical noir about love, doubt and violence.
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Orpheus (1950)
Magical yet haunting, Cocteau’s reimagining of the Orpheus myth in France during the Beatnik 1950s is a cinephile’s treat.
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Rashomon (1950)
The film that launched Japanese cinema into serious international reckoning, and quite simply one of Kurosawa’s very best.
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Flowers of St. Francis, The (1950)
Rossellini’s work here is masterful, shot in a neorealist if also painterly style, that captures the purity and spirituality of ascetic Roman Catholicism in the early 13th century.
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Stage Fright (1950)
One of Hitchcock’s most underrated works—and it sees the director at his most patient, crafting a tale that builds up spellbindingly.
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Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A bold, daring picture that shoots arrows at the Dream Factory that is Hollywood, and arguably Billy Wilder’s finest film.
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