A couple of them were my omission as the list was much longer until I edited it like Cinderella and Summer Stock. Below is a link to the entire 1950 listing on AFI. Born Yesterday had its general release in 1951, so I guess that's why AFI didn't include that title.
It was a prime year as I made some mistakes with omitting a couple of titles during my editing of that long list. Some of my favorite films on that list, as I stated earlier, a great year for film noir and crime films.
My 30 such films are the following:
As I stated in my first post linked below, when I posted this 1950 listing directly from AFI's site in which some of these titles didn't get their general release until 1950, which is why they're listed as 1950 films. With that said, I acknowledged those movies in question were filmed in 1949 and had a limited release late in 1949 in New York, LA or even London, but AFI considers them 1950 films due to their general release date came after 12-31-49.
Yesterday, Eddie Muller stated on Noir Alley TCM that 1950 is the greatest year in film history. That's very debatable to say the least, but the following list take from AFI's site has some really excellent to good films on it. Noting the number of film noirs and crime films that came out in 1950, I can see why a film noir expert like Muller would have such a high opinion of 1950. Some of my favorites that might not be classified as good films too are on this list and I kept them on it. Some of these films were definitely filmed in 1949 and probably had a limited release date in late 1949, but AFI has them listed as 1950 films so perhaps they didn't have their general release until 1950. Anyhow, another great year of cinema. My opinion, of course.
My wife and I just watched our Blu-ray of Broken Arrow last night. It was her first time seeing it and the first time I've seen it in many years. It was quite good, and good looking.
I agree!
