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Piper Laurie's film debut Love Happy: David Miller: Marx Brothers, Vera-Ellen, Raymond Burr: Comedy: United Artists. Last Marx Brothers film Love That Brute: Alexander Hall: Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Cesar Romero: Comedy: 20th Century Fox: Lucky Losers: William Beaudine: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Hillary Brooke: Comedy: Monogram
The film is a massive commercial success and wins the awards for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design at the 23rd Academy Awards. February 15 – Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts. The film is the most successful the studio has made since Dumbo, and saves the studio from four million dollars in debt.
The Wooden Horse (1950) – British war drama film depicting the true events of an escape attempt made by POWs in the German prison camp Stalag Luft III [27] Young Daniel Boone (1950) – Western drama film based on the life of Daniel Boone [28] Young Man with a Horn (1950) – musical drama film inspired by the life of jazz cornetist Bix ...
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1950 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Films of the 1950s were of a wide variety. As a result of the introduction of television, the studios and companies sought to put audiences back in theaters. They used more techniques in presenting their films through widescreen and big-approach methods, such as Cinemascope, VistaVision, and Cinerama, as well as gimmicks like 3-D film.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1950: The Angel with the Trumpet: Anthony Bushell: Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Maria Schell: Drama: The Astonished Heart: Terence Fisher: Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, Margaret Leighton
The movie has an introduction explaining Heyerdahl's theory, then shows diagrams and images explaining the building of the raft and its launch from Peru. Thereafter it is a film of the crew on board, shot by themselves, with commentary written by Heyerdahl and translated. The whole film is black and white, shot on a single 16mm camera.
Winner of the Palme d'or for best short film at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects Legend of the Raven: Judith Crawley: Documentary: Canadian Film Awards – Arts and Experimental [11] Oedipus Rex: Tyrone Guthrie: Douglas Campbell, Eleanor Stuart, William Hutt, Douglas Rain