Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack
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1. The Admiral Was a Lady (1950)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Wanda Hendrix, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Sands
Votes: 407
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1955 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Live TV performance
Director: Herbert B. Swope Jr. | Stars: Thomas Mitchell, Elizabeth Patterson, John Carradine, Walter Catlett
Votes: 70
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
3. Affair in Monte Carlo (1952)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance
A writer tells a crowd in a café about a woman he knows, who once feel deeply in love with a desperate, compulsive gambler.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Merle Oberon, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Stephen Murray
Votes: 192
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
4. Africa Screams (1949)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck
Votes: 4,055
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
5. The Angel with the Trumpet (1950)
98 min | Drama
In the nineteenth century, a young Austrian woman marries into a wealthy family and witnesses the country change through the course of four decades.
Director: Anthony Bushell | Stars: Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Norman Wooland, Maria Schell
Votes: 162
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
6. Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, History, War
During the 1700s, in the Great Lakes region the British troops have driven the French out and with help from the mercenary Hessian troops the British plan to annihilate the native tribes of the Ottawas.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Lex Barker, Helen Westcott, Lon Chaney Jr., Berry Kroeger
Votes: 218
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
7. Behave Yourself! (1951)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Crime
When a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog. Who will be bumbling Bill's undoing - the gangsters, the cops, or his suspicious mother-in-law?
Director: George Beck | Stars: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 815
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
8. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
Approved | 102 min | Adventure, Drama
Fierce competition among sponge fishermen forces a Greek-American family to fish in the dangerous 12-mile reef area off the western coast of Florida.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 1,609
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
9. The Bigamist (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A man secretly married to two women feels the pressure of his deceit.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn, Edmond O'Brien
Votes: 4,725
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
10.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
A Bolt of Lightning
(1951)
60 min | Drama
The story of James Otis, a Boston attorney and American patriot who contested the right of British troops to search colonists' homes during the American Revolutionary War.
Director: Paul Nickell | Stars: Charlton Heston, Romney Brent, Rita Grapel, Celia Johnson
Votes: 64
A Bolt of Lightning (TV Episode) Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
11. Borderline (1950)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two undercover agents infiltrate a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico, but neither is aware of the other's identity.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr, José Torvay
Votes: 1,628
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
12. Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory (1952)
Passed | 66 min | Western
Made during the period when Clayton Moore had been replaced on the Lone Ranger television series by John Hart, but actually appears to have been made during the dawn of the sound era ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Clayton Moore, Slim Andrews, Charles Harvey, Rodd Redwing
Votes: 154
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
13. Captain Scarface (1953)
Approved | 72 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A man desperate to leave South America books passage on a freighter, and learns that the captain has made plans to force a scientist to participate in a mission of destruction.
Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Barton MacLane, Virginia Grey, Leif Erickson, Peter Coe
Votes: 261
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
14. The Capture (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Western
A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory, Jacqueline White
Votes: 659
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
15. Cause for Alarm! (1951)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An invalid husband (Barry Sullivan) wrongly believes his wife (Loretta Young) and doctor (Bruce Cowling) are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling, Margalo Gillmore
Votes: 2,642
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
16. Chained for Life (1952)
Not Rated | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Violet Hilton, Daisy Hilton, Mario Laval, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 501
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
17.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
(1952)
60 min | Drama
A modern New England man travels back to the days of King Arthur and battles Merlin the Magician.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Thomas Mitchell, Boris Karloff, Berry Kroeger, Salem Ludwig
Votes: 67
TV Episode Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
18. The Conquest of Everest (1953)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Adventure
Documentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach its peak.
Director: George Lowe | Stars: Meredith Edwards, John Hunt, George Band, Tom Bourdillon
Votes: 881
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
19. Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
Not Rated | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky
Votes: 4,567
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
20. The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy
An attorney is hired to keep a dumb cowboy out of trouble.
Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson, Joan Davis, Stanley Ridges
Votes: 386
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
21. Home Town Story (1951)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After failing to be re-elected, politician Blake Washburn returns home and becomes editor of the local newspaper. When he notices the influence the paper has on the public, he uses it to appeal to potential voters in the next election.
Director: Arthur Pierson | Stars: Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, Marjorie Reynolds, Alan Hale Jr.
Votes: 1,072
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
22. The Hoodlum (1951)
PG | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Paroled sociopath and career criminal Vincent Lubeck betrays his family's trust when he masterminds a complex armored car robbery.
Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts, Marjorie Riordan, Lisa Golm
Votes: 1,161
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
23. Terminal Station (1953)
Not Rated | 63 min | Drama, Romance
Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi, Richard Beymer
Votes: 3,164
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
24. The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Approved | 77 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues. Restored in original Black and White.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson, Louise Beavers
Votes: 1,438
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
25. The Lady Says No (1951)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
A woman writes a best-selling book for women warning them about the "dangers" of men. A handsome photographer for a national magazine arrives in her town to do a feature story on her. Complications ensue.
Director: Frank Ross | Stars: Joan Caulfield, David Niven, James Robertson Justice, Lenore Lonergan
Votes: 454
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
26. The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Approved | 116 min | Drama, Romance
An American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed
Votes: 4,264
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
27. Lay That Rifle Down (1955)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
Judy works for a pittance as a char in her aunt's hotel. To add spice to her life she enrolls in a charm course but it's a scam. Soon the swindlers show up and plan to use her to con her aunt out of her money.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Judy Canova, Robert Lowery, Jil Jarmyn, Jacqueline deWit
Votes: 126
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
28. The Life and Loves of Mozart (1955)
Not Rated | 87 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Explores the mental state of Mozart during production of his final opera "Die Zauberflöte".
Director: Karl Hartl | Stars: Oskar Werner, Johanna Matz, Gertrud Kückelmann, Nadja Tiller
Votes: 118
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
29. A Life at Stake (1955)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Film-Noir
An unemployed architect meets a married woman with a business proposition. The architect soon suspect her interest isn't just financial - and might be deadly.
Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglass Dumbrille, Claudia Barrett
Votes: 982
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
30. Lilli Marlene (1950)
74 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery
A French singer is captured by the Germans and made to broadcast for them.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott, Richard Murdoch, Leslie Dwyer
Votes: 153
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
31. The Limping Man (1953)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An American WWII veteran goes back to England after the war only to discover that his wartime sweetheart has got mixed up with a dangerous spy ring.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister, Alan Wheatley, Leslie Phillips
Votes: 719
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
32. Love Island (1952)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Romance
US Navy pilot Lt. Richard Tabor crash-lands on a South Pacific isle called Love Island. Richard befriends the Balinese beauty Sarna. The jealous Uraka doesn't like their friendship, so he ... See full summary »
Director: Bud Pollard | Stars: Paul Valentine, Eva Gabor, Malcolm Lee Beggs, Frank McNellis
Votes: 116
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
33. The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his newly-minted detective brother assigned to the case alongside him.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall, Lisa Howard
Votes: 2,854
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
34. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Passed | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker, Arnold Stang
Votes: 12,203
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
35. Manfish (1956)
Not Rated | 76 min | Adventure
Three deep sea divers get involved in murder while searching for a lost treasure.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: John Bromfield, Lon Chaney Jr., Victor Jory, Barbara Nichols
Votes: 319
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
36. The Mark of the Hawk (1957)
Approved | 83 min | Drama
Obam finds himself caught in the middle of hostility between British colonists and African villagers who want to reclaim their land. He sets out to save his country before tensions get out of control.
Director: Michael Audley | Stars: Eartha Kitt, Sidney Poitier, Juano Hernandez, John McIntire
Votes: 303
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
37. Martin Luther (1953)
Approved | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
Biopic of German priest Martin Luther (Niall MacGinnis), covering his life between 1505 and 1530 A.D., and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Niall MacGinnis, John Ruddock, Pierre Lefevre, Guy Verney
Votes: 663
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
38. My Outlaw Brother (1951)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Western
A young man travels to Mexico in search of his brother, who has become involved with a dangerous gang.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Wanda Hendrix, Robert Preston, Robert Stack
Votes: 332
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
39. Never Wave at a WAC (1953)
Approved | 87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A shallow society matron is urged by her senator father to join the Women's Army Corps.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Paul Douglas, Marie Wilson, William Ching
Votes: 574
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
40.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
The Night America Trembled
(1957)
60 min | Drama
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles' Mercury Players performed a radio play version of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Some people in the unsuspecting public took the broadcast as a real ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Donovan | Stars: Edward R. Murrow, Alexander Scourby, Robert Blackburn, Casey Allen
Votes: 145
TV Episode Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
41. The Painted Hills (1951)
G | 68 min | Drama, Family, Western
An intrepid dog comes to the rescue when a boy's life is put at risk by the greed inflamed by a gold strike.
Director: Harold F. Kress | Stars: Pal, Paul Kelly, Bruce Cowling, Gary Gray
Votes: 1,255
A Lassie movie. Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
42.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
Plan for Escape
(1952)
59 min | Drama
A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.
Director: Paul Nickell | Stars: Peggy Ann Garner, Frank Overton, Jean Carson, Robert Webber
Votes: 77
TV Episode Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
43. Road to Bali (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Two unemployed show-biz pals accept treasure-diving work in Bali for a local princess and they find treasure, love and trouble.
Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Murvyn Vye
Votes: 5,246
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
44. The Second Woman (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house.
Director: James V. Kern | Stars: Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton, Florence Bates
Votes: 1,425
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
45. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Approved | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.
Directors: Henry King, Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegard Knef
Votes: 5,899 | Gross: $18.05M
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
46. St. Benny the Dip (1951)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Crime
A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect on them.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Dick Haymes, Nina Foch, Roland Young, Lionel Stander
Votes: 307
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
47.
Omnibus (1952–1961)
Episode:
A Tale of Two Cities
(1953)
Drama, History, Music
The program has five segments: (1) "A Tale of Two Cities" (reading of an excerpt, 'The Fancy Ball', from Charles Dickens' novel), (2) "Gaite Parisienne" (ballet to music by Offenbach), (3) ... See full summary »
Directors: Andrew McCullough, Byron Paul | Stars: Alistair Cooke, Margaret Hamilton, Roman L. Jasinski, Nina Novak
TV Episode Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
48. Three Husbands (1950)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands.
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 333
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
49.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
The Trial of John Peter Zenger
(1953)
60 min | Drama
The story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against King George III. This case is important to American historians and champions of... See full summary »
Director: Paul Nickell | Stars: Eddie Albert, Marian Seldes, Frederick Worlock, Murray Matheson
Votes: 34
TV Episode Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
50. The White Orchid (1954)
Not Rated | 81 min | Adventure, Romance
A romantic triangle leads to complications on an archaeological expedition in Southern Mexico.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: William Lundigan, Peggie Castle, Armando Silvestre, Rosenda Monteros
Votes: 206
Included in Nifty Fifties 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
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