Top 10 Favourite 50s films that haven't been released on Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[Konstantinos]

Well, similar to the 60s-90s threads.

Another very favourite decade for me (after 80s and 90s), with many historical epics and adventure films.

What's your list?


I wrote much more originally, but thought to restrict it to 10 absolute favourites (all these, with the exception of Magnificent Obsession, are films i first watched in my childhood, that's why they hold a special place in my heart):


Ivanhoe (1952)

Knights of the Round Table (1953)

20.000 leagues under the Sea (1954)

Magnificent Obsession (1954) (looking forward to a Criterion upgrade)

The Naked Jungle (1954)

Ulisse (1954)

Summertime (1955) (looking forward to a Criterion upgrade)

Anastasia (1956)

Around the World in 80 days (1956)

Raintree County (1957)

 

[Kenneth_C]

In chronological order:


In a Lonely Place (1950)

The Thing from Another World (1951)

A Place in the Sun (1952)

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

The Sniper (1952)

The War of the Worlds (1953)

Them! (1954)

Summertime (1955)

The Pajama Game (1957)

Suddenly Last Summer (1959)

 

[Thomas T]

Baby Doll

Best Things In Life Are Free

Boy On A Dolphin

Gidget

High And The Mighty

No Down Payment

Peyton Place

Raintree County

Some Came Running

Written On The Wind

 

[ljgranberry]

The Incredible Shrinking Man
Odds Against Tomorrow
Room at the Top
Pickup on South Street
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Rose Tattoo
King Creole
The Mouse That Roared
The Wrong Man
Othello

 

[AlanP]

Peyton Place '57
Raintree County '57
Hercules '57
Suddenly Last Summer
The Best Of Everything
Boy On A Dolphin
Hercules Unchained '59
Bernadine
The Girl Can't Help It
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison '57

 

[ahollis]

The Greatest Show On Earth

Around The World In 80 Days

Raintree County

War Of The Worlds

The High And The Mighty

High Society

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Silk Stockings

Auntie Mame

 

[skylark68]

1. Strategic Air Command

2. Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

3. The Far Country

4. The Great Locomotive Chase

5. War of the Worlds

6. Secret of the Incas

7. Julius Caesar '53

8. FBI Story

9. 20000 Leagues Under The Sea

10. Spirit of St. Louis


Yeah, I'm a Stewart and Fess Parker nerd...

 

[Thomas T]

Peyton Place '57
Raintree County '57
Hercules '57
Suddenly Last Summer
The Best Of Everything
Boy On A Dolphin
Hercules Unchained '59
Bernadine
The Girl Can't Help It
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison '57

Heaven Knows Mr. Allison is readily available on blu ray via Twilight Time. You could have picked it up in their recent sale.

 

[t1g3r5fan]

For me, it's hard to pick 10, but here are my top 10 from the 50's:


I Want to Live!

A Place in the Sun

Magnificent Obsession

Around the World in Eighty Days

Show Boat

Sayonara

The Crimson Pirate

Invaders from Mars

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Defiant Ones

 

[davidHartzog]

Some Came Running, Peyton Place, Written on the Wind, Rogue Cop, Forty Guns, Day of the Outlaw, Broken Lance, Silver Lode, Soldier of Fortune, A Summer Place.

 

[benbess]

Maybe we could even consider going year by year? It's actually quite impressive the number of classics from the 1950s now are on blu-ray in good releases. But of course so many worthy films from this decade still remain unreleased. Wikipedia has a good reference page for Hollywood releases year by year. Here's their list for 1950:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_in_film

 

[Matt Hough]

My ten choices:


Love Me or Leave Me

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Anastasia

Brigadoon

Summer Stock

Peyton Place

La Strada

A Place in the Sun

Bad Day at Black Rock

Summertime

 

[revgen]

Top of my head.


Kansas City Confidential (1952) - MGM Sourced Release

It Came From Outer Space (1953) - Preferably in 3D

Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

The Black Scorpion (1957)

Green Fire (1954)

We're No Angels (1955)

Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) - Preferably in 3D

The Mad Magician (1954) - Preferably in 3D

 

[Konstantinos]

By the way, for those ones that mention Summertime, i don't know if you already know about the Japanese Region A release:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdreviews8/summertime.htm



But I'm waiting for a Criterion upgrade possibly, with English subtitles and extras.

 

[Walter Kittel]

Lots of great films to choose from (like everyone's lists). Restricting myself to one per year...


In A Lonely Place - 1950

Captain Horatio Hornblower - 1951

Angel Face - 1952

Inferno - 1953

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - 1954

Mister Roberts - 1955

Bob Le Flambeur - 1956

Spirit of St. Louis - 1957

The Vikings - 1958

Hiroshima Mon Amour - 1959


- Walter.

 

[TheSteig]

Them ! (WB said this is coming)

War of the Worlds

The Giant Behemoth

The Black Scorpion

Caltiki the Immortal Monster

The Crawling Eye

Fiend without A Face

The Angry Red Planet

This Island Earth

The Mysterians


I love the 50s - the golden age of monster movies that I grew up with and would love all of them on blu ray


Here are some honorable mentions of other 50s films Id love on blu ray

In A Lonely Place

The Asphalt Jungle

The Best of Everything

Invaders from Mars - the original

Lost Continent

Monster from Piedras Blancas

The Beast from 20000 Fathoms

Godzilla Raids Again

The Thing from Another World - which is coming

 

[Alan Tully]

Didn't we have a fifties list? Anyway, I love lists, & the fifties is my second favourite movie decade (after the sixties). All those westerns, epics, musicals, swashbucklers & sci-fi films, & not forgetting all those British b/w war & comedy films. My very colourful list (only one b/w):

Scaramouche 1952
Bend Of The River 1952
Brigadoon 1954
Land Of The Pharaohs 1955
Bad Day At Black Rock 1955
This Island Earth 1955
Helen Of Troy 1956
The Vikings 1958
Dunkirk 1958
Li'l Abner 1959.

 

[Walsh61]

Alot of good titles mentioned already so I won't repeat any :


Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Friendly Persuasion

The Enemy Below

Man Of A Thousand Faces

Home From The Hill

Hobson's Choice

The Catered Affair

The Law And Jake Wade

Track Of The Cat

Fire Down Below

 

[Bob Cashill]

Inferno is available via Panamint, Region A, too. There are threads about it.

 

[Stefano B]

Didn't we have a fifties list? .

Indeed we had one, and quite recent too: http://www.hometheaterforum.com/topic/334566-your-favorite-10-films-from-the-1950s-not-yet-on-blu/

I'll re-post my top ten list from there:

The Flame and the Arrow (Tourneur, 1950)
The Asphalt Jungle (Huston, 1950)
The Big Sky (Hawks, 1952)
The Naked Spur (Mann, 1953)
The Barefoot Contessa (Mankiewicz, 1954)
Moonfleet (Lang, 1955)
Seven Men From Now (Boetticher, 1956)
Run of the Arrow (Fuller, 1957)
Party Girl (Ray, 1958)
The Last Hurrah (Ford, 1958)

Being a huge western fan, the Fifties is my favourite decade. But of course there are so many titles outside the genre that I hope will get a proper blu release in the future.

Just to mention a few more titles in no specific order:
Some Came Running
Band of Angels
The Naked and the Dead
The Far Country
The Last Wagon
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
No Name on the Bullet
Bad Day at Black Rock
Tarantula
Wind Across the Everglades
While the City Sleeps
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt