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List Of Drama Films Of The 1950s
This is a list of drama films of the 1950s. 1950 * '' Awaara'' * '' The Capture'' * '' Diary of a Country Priest'' * '' Flowers of St. Francis'' * '' In a Lonely Place'' * '' Los Olvidados'' * '' Seven Days to Noon'' * '' Stromboli'' * ''Sunset Boulevard'' * '' The Ways of Love'' 1951 * '' Ace in the Hole'' * '' The African Queen'' * '' The Browning Version'' * '' Cry, the Beloved Country'' * '' Early Summer'' * '' Olivia'' * '' A Place in the Sun'' * '' Rashomon'' * '' The River'' * ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' 1952 * '' 5 Fingers'' * ''Affair in Trinidad'' * ''Avalanche'' * '' Bad and the Beautiful'' * '' Casque d'Or'' * '' cindrella!'' * '' Come Back, Little Sheba'' * '' Europe '51'' * '' Flat Top'' * '' Forbidden Games'' * '' Ikiru'' * '' Life of Oharu'' * '' Member of the Wedding'' * ''Mother'' * '' Nagarik'' * ''Othello'' * '' Umberto D.'' * '' Viva Zapata!'' 1953 * '' A`isha'' * '' The Earrings of Madame de...'' * '' Gate of Hell'' * '' A Geisha'' * '' A Japanese Tragedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Place In The Sun (1951 Film)
''A Place in the Sun'' is a 1951 American tragedy film based on the 1925 novel '' An American Tragedy'' by Theodore Dreiser and the 1926 play, also titled ''An American Tragedy''. It tells the story of a working-class young man who is entangled with two women; one works in his wealthy uncle's factory and the other is a beautiful socialite. Another adaptation of the novel had been filmed once before, as '' An American Tragedy'', in 1931. All these works were inspired by the real-life murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in 1906, which resulted in Gillette's conviction and execution by electric chair in 1908. ''A Place in the Sun'' was directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Michael Wilson, and stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters and Keefe Brasselle. Burr's performance impressed TV producer Gail Patrick, and later led to her casting him as Perry Mason. The film was a critical and commercial success, winning six Academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbidden Games
''Forbidden Games'' () is a 1952 French war drama film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyer's novel ''Les Jeux Interdits''. While not initially successful in France, the film was a hit elsewhere. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, a Special Award as Best Foreign Language Film in the United States, and a Best Film from any Source at the British Academy Film Awards. Plot It is June 1940, during the Battle of France. After five-year-old Paulette's parents and pet dog die in a German air attack on a column of refugees fleeing Paris, the traumatized child meets 10-year-old Michel Dollé whose peasant family takes her in. She quickly becomes attached to Michel. The two attempt to cope with the death and destruction that surrounds them by secretly building a small cemetery among the ruins of an abandoned watermill, where they bury her dog and start to bury other animals, marking their graves with crosses stolen from a local graveyard, including on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flat Top (film)
''Flat Top'' (also released as ''Eagles of the Fleet'') is a 1952 American drama war film filmed in Cinecolor, directed by Lesley Selander and starring Sterling Hayden, with early appearances from Phyllis Coates, Jack Larson, Richard Carlson, and William Schallert. The film earned William Austin an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing in 1953. Plot On board an aircraft carrier off from the coast of Korea during the Korean War, Commander Collier is the Commander Air Group (CAG), or Air Boss, in charge of air operations on the carrier, or 'flat top'. When asked about how he first handled his job, he goes back to the time of World War II, where the rest of the film takes place. Told in flashback form, Collier recounts the war in the Pacific, working flight ops on the same carrier as the Fighter Squadron Commander with a new Executive Officer, LT Joe Rogers, and getting a group of fighter pilots ready for the tough fight to come against the Japanese. Cast * Sterling H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe '51
''Europe '51'' (), also known as ''The Greatest Love'', is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman and Alexander Knox. The film follows an industrialist's wife who, after the death of her young son, turns towards a rigorous humanitarianism. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." Plot Due to a labour strike, Irene Girard, wife of American industrialist George Girard, returns late to their apartment in post-war Rome, where she is giving a dinner party for their relatives. Her young son Michel laments that she has hardly time for him, to which she replies that it's time for him to grow up and stop being over-sensitive. During dinner, the guests get involved in a debate about politics. While Irene's cousin André, a Communist who writes for a political newspaper, pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952 Film)
''Come Back, Little Sheba'' is a 1952 American drama film directed by Daniel Mann in his directorial debut and produced by Paramount Pictures. The script was adapted by Ketti Frings from the 1950 play of the same title by William Inge. Starring Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore, and Richard Jaeckel, the film tells the story of a marriage between a recovering alcoholic and his frumpy wife, which is rocked when a young college student rents a room in the couple's house. The title refers to the wife's little dog that disappeared months before the story begins and whom she still openly grieves for. Booth, who had originated her role on Broadway and was making her film debut, won Best Actress honors at the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, and the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. Plot Doc Delaney is a recovering alcoholic married to Lola, a frumpy, middle-aged housewife. Doc had once been a promising medical student, but dropped out of college when Lola became pregn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad And The Beautiful
''The Bad and the Beautiful'' is a 1952 American melodrama film that tells the story of a film producer who alienates everyone around him. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, written by George Bradshaw and Charles Schnee, and stars Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame and Gilbert Roland. ''The Bad and the Beautiful'' won five Academy Awards out of six nominations in 1952 (including Gloria Grahame winning Best Supporting Actress), a record for the most awards for a movie that was not nominated for Best Picture or for Best Director. In 2002, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The theme song, "The Bad and the Beautiful", penned by David Raksin, became a jazz standard and has been cited as an example of an excellent movie theme. ''The Bad and the Beautiful'' was created by the same team that later worked on another ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avalanche (1952 Film)
is a 1952 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō. Cast * Susumu Fujita as Kōsuke Kijima * Nobuko Otowa as Atsuko Fujikawa * Mitsuko Mito as Tokie Kijima * Ichirō Sugai as Manager * Taiji Tonoyama was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989. He was a close friend of Kaneto Shindo and one of his regular cast members. He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company ... as Miyabayashi * Saburō Date as Tomita References External links * 1952 drama films Japanese drama films 1950s Japanese-language films Films directed by Kaneto Shindo Films scored by Akira Ifukube Japanese black-and-white films 1950s Japanese films Japanese-language drama films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Affair In Trinidad
''Affair in Trinidad'' is a 1952 American film noir directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. It was produced by Hayworth's Beckworth Corporation and released by Columbia Pictures. It is notable as Hayworth's "comeback" film after four years away from Columbia, as a reteaming of the stars of ''Gilda (film), Gilda'' (1946) and for a fiery opening number in which Hayworth dances barefoot to calypso music. Hayworth's singing voice is dubbed by Jo Ann Greer, who later also sang for her in ''Miss Sadie Thompson'' and ''Pal Joey (film), Pal Joey''. The film's gross take at the box office exceeded ''Gilda (film), Gildas by $1 million. Plot Chris Emery works as a nightclub singer and dancer in the British colony of Trinidad and Tobago. One night after her performance she receives news from Inspector Smythe and Anderson, a member of the American consulate, that her husband Neil has been found dead. She is comforted by Neil's friend Max Fabian. Initially, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5 Fingers
''5 Fingers'', known also as ''Five Fingers'', is a 1952 American spy film noir directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Otto Lang. The screenplay written by Michael Wilson was based on the 1950 book ''Operation Cicero'' (original German: ''Der Fall Cicero'') by Ludwig Carl Moyzisch, Nazi commercial attaché at the German embassy in Ankara, Turkey (1943–44). The film is based on the true story of Albanian-born Elyesa Bazna, a spy with the code name of Cicero who worked for the Nazis in 1943–44 while he was employed as valet to the British ambassador to Turkey, Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen. Bazna would photograph top-secret documents and deliver the pictures to Franz von Papen, the German ambassador in Turkey and a former German chancellor, using Moyzisch as the intermediary. James Mason plays Ulysses Diello (Cicero), the character based on Bazna. The film also stars Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Herbert Berghof and Walter Hampden. Plot In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
