Top 10 Favorite Films: 1950-1959

In order of preference:

1950

1. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
2. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
3. Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
4. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Aventurera (Alberto Gout)
6. The Gunfighter (Henry King)
7. Stromboli (Roberto Rosellini)
8. Stars in My Crown (Jacques Tourneur)
9. Wagon Master (John Ford)
10. Broken Arrow (Delmer Daves)

1951

1. Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg)
2. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
3. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
4. The African Queen (John Huston)
5. The River (Jean Renoir)
6. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)
7. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
8. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. The Magic Box (John Boulting)
10. Awaara (Raj Kapoor)

1952

1. The Quiet Man (John Ford)
2. Carrie (William Wyler)
3. The Crimson Pirate (Robert Siodmak)
4. Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen)
5. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
6. Viva Zapata! (Elia Kazan)
7. Moulin Rouge (John Huston)
8. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Henry King)
9. The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)
10. The Star (Stuart Heiser)

1953

1. Shane (George Stevens)
2. From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann)
3. Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
4. Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
5. All I Desire (Douglas Sirk)
6. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
7. The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
8. It Came from Out of Space (Jack Arnold)
9. The Big Heat (Fitz Lang)
10. Beat the Devil (John Huston)

1954

1. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
3. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Stanley Donen)
4. The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk)
5. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
6. A Star is Born (George Cukor)
7. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Richard Fleischer)
8. La Strada (Federico Fellini)
9. The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
10. Hobson’s Choice (David Lean)

1955

1. East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
2. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
3. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel)
4. I Live in Fear (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
6. Rebel Without A Cause (Nicholas Ray)
7. Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges)
8. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
9. Oklahoma! (Fred Zinnemann)
10. Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (Henry Koster)

1956

1. The Searchers (John Ford)
2. The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille)
3. Giant (George Stevens)
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
5. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
6. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)
7. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox)
9. Patterns (Fielder Cook)
10. The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)

1957

1. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
2. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
3. Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder)
4. The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold)
5. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
6. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
7. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
8. Mother India (Mehboob Khan)
9. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
10. The Wide Blue Road (Gillo Pontecorvo)

1958

1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Big Country (William Wyler)
3. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks)
4. Auntie Mame (Morton DaCosta)
5. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (Nathan Juran)
6. I Want to Live! (Robert Wise)
7. The Long Hot Summer (Martin Ritt)
8. A Night to Remember (Roy Ward Baker)
9. The Fly (Kurt Neumann)
10. Horror of Dracula (Terence Fisher)

1959

1. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
2. Ben-Hur (William Wyler)
3. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
4. The Hanging Tree (Delmer Daves)
5. Odd Obsession (Kon Ichikawa)
6. Suddenly Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
7. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
9. Kapò (Gillo Pontecorvo)
10. Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)