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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 1950s mark a significant change in the definition of the B movie.The transformation of the film industry due to court rulings that brought an end to many long-standing distribution practices as well as the challenge of television led to major changes in U.S. cinema at the exhibition level.
B. The Baby and the Battleship; Bachelor of Hearts; Background (1953 film) Bait (1950 film) The Bandit of Zhobe; Bang! You're Dead; The Bank Raiders; Barbados Quest; Barnacle Bill (1957 film) The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957 film) The Battle of the River Plate (film) The Battle of the Sexes (1959 film) Battle of the V-1; The Beachcomber ...
This is a chronological list of films produced in the United Kingdom split by decade. There may be an overlap, particularly between British and American films which are sometimes co-produced; the list should attempt to document films which are either British produced or strongly associated with British culture .
The Girl Who Couldn't Quite (1950) The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) Her Favourite Husband (1950) Into the Blue (1950) Last Holiday (1950) The Magnet (1950) Old Mother Riley Headmistress (1950) Over the Garden Wall (1950) Something in the City (1950) Appointment with Venus (1951) Encore (1951) The Galloping Major (1951) Happy Go Lovely ...
In either usage, most B movies represent a particular genre: the Western was a Golden Age B movie staple, while low-budget science-fiction and horror films became more popular in the 1950s. Early B movies were often part of series in which the star repeatedly played the same character.
Donald B. Wilson: Harold Warrender, Anne Vernon: Romantic comedy: What a Carry On! John E. Blakeley: Jimmy Jewel, Ben Warriss: Comedy [2] Whisky Galore! Alexander Mackendrick: Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Gordon Jackson: Comedy: Number 24 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films
The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "Having already been unofficially adapted by Luchino Visconti as Ossessione (1942), James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel The Postman Always Rings Twice was apparently plundered again for this bleak British B-movie. It's a solid enough study in lust, despair and avarice, with Sandra ...