Category: The 1950’s in Technicolor

Giant

In Dean’s final film, a young Texan becomes wealthy in the oil industry and gets into a power struggle with his former employer. Ten Academy Award nominations including Best Picture!

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Shane

A one-time gunfighter in search of a peaceful life comes to the rescue of a family of homesteaders at war with a land baron. This legendary western was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture!

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The Blob

A cult classic of gooey greatness, The Blob follows the havoc wreaked on a small town by an outer-space monster with neither soul nor vertebrae, with Steve McQueen playing the rebel teen who tries to warn the residents about the jellylike invader. Strong performances and ingenious special effects help The Blob transcend the schlock sci-fi and youth delinquency genres from which it originates. Made outside of Hollywood by a maverick film distributor and a crew whose credits mostly comprised religious and educational shorts, The Blob helped launch the careers of McQueen and composer Burt Bacharach, whose bouncy title song is just one of this film’s many unexpected pleasures.

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The Seven Year Itch

A man whose family has just left for the summer finds that a sensuous blonde has moved into the apartment upstairs. One of Monroe’s great comic performances!

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The Trouble With Harry

Dark comedy about the citizens of a New England town who conceal the body of a man who one of them might be responsible for killing. MacLaine’s screen debut!

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The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

Young Bart Collins, lulled to sleep by the monotony of his piano lessons, dreams of a castle ruled by his piano teacher, the eccentric Dr. Teriwilliker. Dr. T is determined to prove that his “Happy Fingers Method” of teaching piano is the best method in the world. Having banished all other musical instruments to the dungeon, Dr. T lures 500 reluctant little boys to perform in a colossal concert on the grandest grand piano ever built. In his effort to escape, Bart comes in contact with some of the strangest characters imaginable – Siamese twins on roller skates, a human drum and the most memorable villian since the “Grinch”. Filled with surreal landscapes and tongue-twisting rhymes, for which Dr. Seuss is famous, this is a movie children and their parents will love to watch again and again. THE 5000 FINGERS OF DR. T is fantasy entertainment at its best.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

Classic story of British POWs in a World War II Japanese prison camp who are forced to build a bridge, which an escapee is determined to prevent from being completed. Winner of 7 Oscars, including Best Picture!

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The Searchers

Ford’s classic tale of a Civil War veteran in search of his niece who was kidnapped by Indians. An all-time great western!

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Vertigo

A retired San Francisco detective whose acrophobia resulted in a comrade’s death is hired to trail a familiar woman and finds himself falling in love with her. Classic Hitchcock thriller!

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