Your favorite 10 films from the 1950s not yet on blu (1 Viewer)

[Bernard McNair]

Great list Alan. I had never heard of Danger Within but after reading about it on IMDB I hope to be able to see it in the near future. I really enjoy the WW2 POW genre.

 

[Alan Tully]

Great list Alan. I had never heard of Danger Within but after reading about it on IMDB I hope to be able to see it in the near future. I really enjoy the WW2 POW genre.

Yes it's a smashing film, beautifully written with a great cast, happily it shows up on UK TV every now & again. My favourite mass escape film featuring Richard Attenborough, & a more successful ecsape than the other film as well!

 

[benbess]

We already have a lot of movies from the banner year of 1955 on blu-ray, including: Daddy Long Legs, East of Eden, Guys and Dolls, Hit the Deck, House of Bamboo, It's Always Fair Weather, Kiss Me Deadly, Lady and the Tramp, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Love Me or Leave Me, The Man From Laramie, Marty, The Night of the Hunter, Oklahoma!, Pete Kelly's Blues, Picnic, The Rains of Ranchipur, Rebel Without a Cause, Richard III, The Seven Year Itch, Smiles of a Summer Night, Strategic Air Command, To Catch a Thief, and The Trouble with Harry.

That's a long list, and probably I missed one or two.

And yet, with all of those great releases, there are still a fair number of movies from 1955 that are probably still worthy of a restoration and blu-ray release, including: Artists and Models (in VistaVision—with a wonderful HD transfer already available for streaming), Battle Cry, The Big Combo, The Big Knife, Blackboard Jungle, The Cobweb, The Dam Busters, The Desperate Hours, Good Morning, Miss Dove, It Came From Beneath the Sea, The Kentuckian, Land of the Pharaohs, The Long Grey Line, Lucy Gallant, Man Without a Star, Mister Roberts, Moonfleet, Not as a Stranger, Prince of Players, The Prisoner, The Rose Tattoo, The Seven Little Foys, This Island Earth, The Violent Men, The Virgin Queen, and We're No Angers—as well as probably at least a few others that I've missed. What are they?

 

[Robin9]

The Big Combo was released on Blu-ray by Olive. Man Without a Star has been released on Blu-ray disc in Germany.

 

[Martin_Teller]

1. Nights of Cabiria
2. Cairo Station
3. The Lineup
4. Imitation of Life
5. The Girl Can't Help It
6. Odds Against Tomorrow
7. The Browning Version
8. Murder by Contract
9. El (This Strange Passion)
10. Sawdust and Tinsel
11. The Furies
12. The Cranes Are Flying
13. Kanal
14. The Phenix City Story
15. Artists and Models
16. Human Desire
17. The Burmese Harp
18. Nagarik
19. Miss Julie
20. One Way Street

 

[benbess]

Today I watched streaming from amzn the 1955 drama The Cobweb, directed by Vincente Minnelli. This is a rather over-the-top melodrama set in an upscale mental institution, and has Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish, John Kerr, Susan Strasberg, Oscars Levant, and even a brief appearance by Fay Wray. Unusual and effective score by Leonard Rosenman, and good imho cinematography by George Folsey (Meet Me in St. Louis, Green Dolphin Street, State of the Union, Adam's Rib, Forbidden Planet, etc.). I must be a sucker for this kind of thing, but I think this one is worth having on blu-ray, and might even makes my top 10 or so for that very good year of 1955....

But it needs some restoration work. The picture quality and color are more or less ok, but it needs some correction and clean-up.

 

[benbess]

The other movie from my 1955 double feature tonight was Not as a Stranger, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, and starring Robert Mitchum (in one of his finest roles)....This one is also worthy of a blu-ray, although it needs considerable restoration work imho.

My favorites from 1955, more or less in order....The two I watched tonight rate pretty highly for me right now. But maybe it's in part because I've just seen them? Anyway, many of my favorites from 1955 are now on blu-ray.

Lady and the Tramp
To Catch a Thief
All that Heaven Allows
The Court Jester (no blu-ray yet for this VistaVision classic!)
Bad Day at Black Rock
Oklahoma!
East of Eden
The Man From Laramie
Not as a Stranger (A United Artists/Columbia Picture. Perhaps in TT's future?)
Artists and Models (VistaVision comedy classic crying out of a blu-ray release)
Richard III
Picnic
The Cobweb (Warner Archive should release this one)
Daddy Long Legs
The Kentuckian (deserves a blu-ray)
Lucy Gallant (Another lost Paramount classic in VistaVision that should be on blu-ray)
House of Bamboo
Illegal (this lost classic with Edward G. Robinson should be on blu-ray)
The Trouble With Harry
This Island Earth (still lacking a blu-ray for this one)
Kiss Me Deadly
Smiles of a Summer Night
Violent Saturday
The Desperate Hours (Another VistaVision title that needs the blu-ray treatment)
We’re No Angels (ditto)
Love Me or Leave Me
It’s Always Fair Weather
Battle Cry
Love is a Many Splendored Thing
Hit the Deck
Rebel Without a Cause
Kismet
Mr. Roberts
Pete Kelly’s Blues
It Came From Beneath the Sea
Guys and Dolls
The Rains of Ranchipur
Strategic Air Command
Conquest of Space

 

[cinemiracle]

1. Nights of Cabiria
2. Cairo Station
3. The Lineup
4. Imitation of Life
5. The Girl Can't Help It
6. Odds Against Tomorrow
7. The Browning Version
8. Murder by Contract
9. El (This Strange Passion)
10. Sawdust and Tinsel
11. The Furies
12. The Cranes Are Flying
13. Kanal
14. The Phenix City Story
15. Artists and Models
16. Human Desire
17. The Burmese Harp
18. Nagarik
19. Miss Julie
20. One Way Street

THE BURMESE HARP was released on bluray more than a year ago, by Eureka .It was the new fully restored film with extras and a 40 page mini booklet. I saw it many times where I worked and have watched it numerous times on dvd and now bluray.The film is in the top five films that I have ever seen.Truly the very best anti-war film ever made.An unforgettable masterpiece.

 

[TheSteig]

[*]War of the Worlds - the original
[*]Betrayed - the Warner Archive with Clark Gable
[*]Beware My Lovely ---- hello , Olive Films ???
[*]This Island Earth
[*]Them !
[*]The Beast from 20000 Fathoms
[*]Fiend without a Face
[*]Night and the City - cmon Criterion !!
[*]The Crawling Eye
[*]Caltiki the Immortal Monster - never had a release in the USA
[/list]
Very honorable mention - The Amazing Colossal Man, Space Master X7 , It Conquered the World, Monster of Piedras Blancas - but will settle for an official DVD release if that's all we can get

5 of my list are still without a US bluray release. We did get Monster of Piedras Blancas. SpaceMaster X7 got a DVD release in Germany which Im getting .. time for a new list

 

[skylark68]

Some of you guys have great memories. I can recognize a film more or less in which decade they came from but not the exact year! Wow!

I have to agree with This Island Earth! though. Love that film. I think The Far Horizons is another one I'd like if it is 1955? I think it was.

 

[Alan Tully]

I see I have a few lists in the thread, here's a basic 10 list from just over a year ago:

The Bad & The Beautiful
Scaramouche
Bend Of The River
Ivanhoe
Helen Of Troy
The Land Of The Pharaohs
Bad Day At Black Rock
Mister Roberts
Brigadoon
Teahouse Of The August Moon.

Well I have Bad Day At Black Rock (looking just great!) & Bend Of The River is released in Germany next month, as for the rest...WAC, I'm counting on ya

 

[dana martin]

update from my original post , just removed what was released


Mr. Roberts
Universal Ultimate SciFi Collection Vol 1: Incredible Shrinking Man / Revenge of the Creature (3D) / Creature Walks Among Us / This Island Earth / Tarantula
The Thing From Another World
War Of The Worlds
The Court Jester
Classic Hammer Horror Collection: Curse Of Frankenstein / Horror Of Dracula
Auntie Mame

 

[cinemiracle]

update from my original post , just removed what was released


Mr. Roberts
Universal Ultimate SciFi Collection Vol 1: Incredible Shrinking Man / Revenge of the Creature (3D) / Creature Walks Among Us / This Island Earth / Tarantula
The Thing From Another World
War Of The Worlds
The Court Jester
Classic Hammer Horror Collection: Curse Of Frankenstein / Horror Of Dracula
Auntie Mame

I have THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN on bluray-released in the U.K. some time ago.

 

[Robert Crawford]

For some reason I really like Lucy Gallant and would pay a high price to have that on Blu-ray. Hell, I would pay a high price to have it on DVD.

 

[Jimbo64]

Land of the Pharaohs
The Tattered Dress
Magnificent Obsession
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Track of the Cat
I Died a Thousand Times
The Sun Also Rises
The Cobweb
Tea and Sympathy
No Down Payment
A Certain Smile
Some Came Running

And of course all the 3D films!
That's all I want

 

[Ed Lachmann]

Personally, for this era I go for the historical adventures:
Helen of Troy
Land Of The Pharaohs
The Silver Chalice
The Prodigal
Julius Caesar
Esther and the King
Ivanhoe
Scaramouche
King Richard and the Crusaders
Knights of the Round Table

perhaps on the cusp-The Story of Ruth (1960) or, if possible,
Hercules and Hercules Unchained

 

[Nick*Z]

Oops! Can't just limit it to ten. Not from a decade as culturally rich in movie-land history as the fifties.

Auntie Mame
Scaramouche
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
High Society
The Student Prince
Around the World in 80 Days
Revenge of the Creature
Written on the Wind
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Roman Holiday
The Brothers Karamazov
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Court Jester
Ivanhoe
Annie Get Your Gun
Queen Bee
Mystery Street
Julius Caesar
Nancy Goes to Rio
Summer Stock
That Midnight Kiss
The Toast of New Orleans
Million Dollar Mermaid
Easy to Love
The Country Girl
Call Me Madam
Executive Suite
The Catered Affair
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Island in the Sun
The Reluctant Debutante
The Nun's Story
Darby O'Gill and the Little People

 

[Robin9]

Personally, for this era I go for the historical adventures:
Helen of Troy
Land Of The Pharaohs
The Silver Chalice
The Prodigal
Julius Caesar
Esther and the King
Ivanhoe
Scaramouche
King Richard and the Crusaders
Knights of the Round Table

perhaps on the cusp-The Story of Ruth (1960) or, if possible,
Hercules and Hercules Unchained

I'd buy a Blu-ray disc of every one of those films.

 

[cinemiracle]

THE ADMIRABLE CRIGHTON- a star studded British film.-60th anniversary this year.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Here's my list of favorites from 1950:
Wagonmaster
All About Eve
In a Lonely Place
The Asphalt Jungle
Devil's Doorway
The Flame and the Arrow
Sunset Boulevard
Diary of a Country Priest
Los Olvidados
The Flowers of St Francis

Well, your list is down to the following:

Devil's Doorway
The Flame and the Arrow
Diary of a Country Priest
Los Olvidados
The Flowers of St Francis