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Top Ten Lists 1950-1959

-- 1950s --

-- 1959 --

#1:  North by Northwest (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #2:  Four Hundred Blows (dir: François Truffaut) #3:  Anatomy of a Murder (dir: Otto Preminger) #4:  Some Like It Hot (dir: Billy Wilder) #5:  The Virgin Spring (dir: Ingmar Bergman) #6:  The FBI Story (dir: Mervyn LeRoy) #7:  Ben-Hur (dir: William Wyler) #8:  The Diary of Anne Frank (dir: George Stevens) #9:  Operation Petticoat (dir: Blake Edwards) #10:  Black Orpheus (dir: Marcel Camus)

-- 1958 --

#1:  Vertigo (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #2:  Touch of Evil (dir: Orson Welles) #3:  The Defiant Ones (dir: Stanley Kramer) #4:  Mon Oncle (dir: Jacques Tati) #5:  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (dir: Richard Brooks) #6:  Seperate Tables (dir: Delbert Mann) #7:  Horror of Dracula (dir: Terence Fisher) #8:  The Old Man and the Sea (dir: John Sturges) #9:  A Night to Remember (dir: Ray Baker) #10:  South Pacific (dir: Joshua Logan)

-- 1957 --

#1:  The Bridge on the River Kwai (dir: David Lean) #2:  The Seventh Seal (dir: Ingmar Bergman) #3:  12 Angry Men (dir: Sidney Lumet) #4:  Wild Strawberries (dir: Ingmar Bergman) #5:  Throne of Blood (dir: Akira Kurosawa) #6:  Paths of Glory (dir: Stanley Kubrick) #7:  Witness for the Prosecution (dir: Billy Wilder) #8:  The Wrong Man (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #9:  The Sweet Smell of Success (dir: Alexander Mackendrick) #10:  The Sun Also Rises (dir: Henry King)

-- 1956 --

#1:  The Killing (dir: Stanley Kubrick) #2:  The Man Who Knew Too Much (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #3:  The Searchers (dir: John Ford) #4:  The Ten Commandments (dir: Cecil B. DeMille) #5:  Giant (dir: Georce Stevens) #6:  Anastasia (dir: Anatole Litvak) #7:  Moby Dick (dir: John Huston) #8:  The King and I (dir: Walter Lang) #9:  Invasion of the Body Snatchers (dir: Don Siegel) #10:  Samurai 3: Duel at Garyu Island (dir: Hiroshi Inagaki)

-- 1955 --

#1:  Diabolique (dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot) #2:  Rebel without a Cause (dir: Nicholas Ray) #3:  Mister Roberts (dir: John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy) #4:  Kiss Me Deadly (dir: Robert Aldrich) #5:  East of Eden (dir: Elia Kazan) #6:  The Desperate Hours (dir: William Wyler) #7:  To Catch a Thief (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #8:  Oklahoma! (dir: Fred Zinnemann) #9:  The Virgin Queen (dir: Henry Koster) #10:  Marty (dir: Delbert Mann)

-- 1954 --

#1:  Rear Window (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #2:  On the Waterfront (dir: Elia Kazan) #3:  Seven Samurai (dir: Akira Kurosawa) #4:  Dial M For Murder (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #5:  The Caine Mutiny (dir: Edward Dmytryk) #6:  A Star Is Born (dir: George Cukor) #7:  The Wild One (dir: Laslo Benedek) #8:  La Strada (dir: Federico Fellini) #9:  Samurai 1: Mosashi Miyamoto (dir: Hiroshi Inagaki) #10:  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (dir: Richard Fleischer)

-- 1953 --

#1:  From Here to Eternity (dir: Fred Zinnemann) #2:  Stalag 17 (dir: Billy Wilder) #3:  Mr. Hulot's Holiday (dir: Jacques Tati) #4:  Julius Caesar (dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) #5:  Roman Holiday (dir: William Wyler) #6:  Shane (dir: George Stevens) #7:  Ugetsu (dir: Kenji Mizoguchi) #8:  Kiss Me Kate (dir: George Sidney) #9:  Peter Pan (dir: Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, and Wilfred Jackson) #10:  Band Wagon (dir: Vincente Minnelli)

-- 1952 --

#1:  The Wages of Fear (dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot) #2:  Singin' in the Rain (dir: Stanley Donen) #3:  Othello (dir: Orson Welles) #4:  High Noon (dir: Fred Zinnemann) #5:  The Quiet Man (dir: John Ford) #6:  Ikiru (dir: Akira Kurosawa) #7:  Moulin Rouge (dir: John Huston) #8:  Limelight (dir: Charles Chaplin) #9:  The Bad and the Beautiful (dir: Vincente Minnelli) #10:  The Greatest Show on Earth (dir: Cecil B. DeMille)

-- 1951 --

#1:  A Streetcar Named Desire (dir: Elia Kazan) #2:  Strangers on a Train (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #3:  A Place in the Sun (dir: George Stevens) #4:  An American in Paris (dir: Vincente Minnelli) #5:  The African Queen (dir: John Huston) #6:  The Red Badge of Courage (dir: John Huston) #7:  Alice in Wonderland (dir: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wilfred Jackson) #8:  The Day the Earth Stood Still (dir: Robert Wise) #9:  A Christmas Carol (dir: Brian Desmond Hurst) #10:  The Browning Version (dir: Anthony Asquith)

-- 1950 --

#1:  Sunset Boulevard (dir: Billy Wilder) #2:  All About Eve (dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) #3:  Rashomon (dir: Akira Kurosawa) #4:  The Asphalt Jungle (dir: John Huston) #5:  Harvey (dir: Henry Koster) #6:  The Gunfighter (dir: Henry King) #7:  Cinderella (dir: Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, and Clyde Geronimi) #8:  Night and the City (dir: Jules Dassin) #9:  Winchester '73 (dir: Anthony Mann) #10:  Born Yesterday (dir: George Cukor)

Analysis by:
David Perry
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