0016: Top Ten Films of the 1950's

Submitted by AAA on Sat, 09/13/2003 - 09:33
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  1. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
  2. All About Eve (1950, Joseph Mankiewicz)
  3. Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder)
  4. Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)
  5. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
  6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)
  7. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, David Lean)
  8. The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
  9. Some Like it Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
  10. Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk)
192209/15/2004

What do you think of '12 Angry Men'?

AAA09/15/2004

Not a bad film...but I bet it would work better as a play.

Now that I say that, I'm sure that there is a stage version somewhere that I'm forgetting.

AJDaGreat09/15/2004

I can't tell if you were joking or not. If you weren't, 12 Angry Men was a play originally.

Granted, the film doesn't look like Lawrence of Arabia, but IMHO, Lumet's direction really adds something to the script in capturing the intensity and paranoia of the setting. And the performances are really fantastic.

AAA09/15/2004

I was indeed joking.

I need to watch the film again, but I wasn't knocked out.