ALTERNATE ESSENTIALS of AMERICAN CINEMA -- 1950s

ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959, Otto Preminger)

IMITATION OF LIFE (1959, Douglas Sirk)

RIO BRAVO (1959, Howard Hawks)

SHADOWS (1959, John Cassavetes)

GIGI (1958, Vincente Minnelli)

TOUCH OF EVIL (1958, Orson Welles)

AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957, Leo McCarey)

PATHS OF GLORY (1957, Stanley Kubrick)

THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956, Don Siegel)

THE KILLING (1956, Stanley Kubrick)

THERE’S ALWAYS TOMORROW (1956, Douglas Sirk)

WRITTEN ON THE WIND (1956, Douglas Sirk)

THE WRONG MAN (1956, Alfred Hitchcock)

ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955, Douglas Sirk)

KISS ME DEADLY (1955, Robert Aldrich)

NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955, Charles Laughton)

REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955, Nicholas Ray)

JOHNNY GUITAR (1954, Nicholas Ray)

THE BAND WAGON (1953, Vincente Minnelli)

THE BIG HEAT (1953, Fritz Lang)

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953, Howard Hawks)

I CONFESS (1953, Alfred Hitchcock)

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953, Jack Arnold)

THE NAKED SPUR (1953, Anthony Mann)

PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953, Samuel Fuller)

ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953, William Wyler)

ANGEL FACE (1952, Otto Preminger)

THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1952, Vincente Minnelli)

BEND OF THE RIVER (1952, Anthony Mann)

LIMELIGHT (1952, Charlie Chaplin)

ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1952, Nicholas Ray)

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1951, Hamilton Luske)

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951, Alfred Hitchcock)

THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950, John Huston)

FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950, Vincente Minnelli)

GUN CRAZY (1950, Joseph Lewis)

IN A LONELY PLACE (1950, Nicholas Ray)

RIO GRANDE (1950, John Ford)

WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950, Otto Preminger)

WINCHESTER ’73 (1950, Anthony Mann)

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