Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.

The Desert Hawk

1950

English

5.5

♡ 2

Frederick De Cordova Director

Robert J. Wilke as Camel Driver

Michael Ansara as Guard

Richard Hale as Imam - the Holy One

Ben Welden as Mokar

A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.

King Solomon's Mines

1950

English

6.7

♡ 9

92%

based on novel or book

Andrew Marton Director

Stewart Granger as Allan Quatermain

Deborah Kerr as Elizabeth Curtis

Richard Carlson as John Goode

Hugo Haas as Van Brun aka Smith

Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing husband lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.

Outside the Wall

1950

English

6.7

♡ 4

75%

Crane Wilbur Director

Marilyn Maxwell as Charlotte Maynard

Peggie Castle as Crossroads Tavern Waitress

Joseph Pevney as Gus Wormser

Richard Basehart as Larry Nelson

Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. Thete, he meets and falls for a nurse, Charlotte Maynard, and he knows the only way to enter her web is to have a lot of money, for Miss Maynard is somewhat of a gold-digger.

Spy Hunt

1950

English

6.3

♡ 3

George Sherman Director

Jay Barney as Assassin

Märta Torén as Catherine Ullven

Walter Slezak as Doctor Stahl

Howard Duff as Steve Quain

Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But when the train is derailed in the Swiss Alps and the panthers escape, she is forced to involve him in her mission, which now includes enemy agents hunting the microfilm, the animals, Catherine and Roger.

No Way Out

1950

English

7.4

♡ 16

85%

Joseph L. Mankiewicz Director

Robert Adler as Louie - Assistant Deputy in Hospital Prison Ward

Frank Richards as Mac

Ian Wolfe as Watkins

Barbara Pepper as Woman

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.

Born to Be Bad

1950

English

6.6

♡ 5

71%

Nicholas Ray Director

Kenneth Gibson as Charity Ball Guest

Joan Fontaine as Christabel

John Mitchum as Guest

Irving Bacon as Jewelry Salesman

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.

Last Holiday

1950

English

7.3

♡ 7

100%

Henry Cass Director

Kay Walsh as Mrs. Poole

Brian Oulton as Prescott

Ernest Thesiger as Sir Trevor Lampington

Hal Osmond as Trade Union Man

George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout

1950

English

5.4

♡ 4

96%

Lew Landers Director

Addison Richards as Capt. Weightman

George Montgomery as Davy Crockett

Ellen Drew as Frances Oatman

Vera Marshe as Mrs. Simms

It's 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It's scout is Davy Crockett, nephew of his more famous namesake. There is spy amongst them informing the Indians. They survive the first Indian attack and then push on. They have a choice of two passes through the mountains. Learing of the pass to be defended by the Indians, they head for the other. But upon ariving, the Indians attack. Somehow they have been informed.

Storm Warning

1950

English

7.2

♡ 7

Stuart Heisler Director

Walter Baldwin as Coroner Bledsoe

Ned Glass as George Athens

Harry Harvey as Mr. Louden

Sean McClory as Shore

A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.

Appointment with Danger

1950

English

6.5

♡ 1

Lewis Allen Director

Jan Sterling as Dodie

Paul Stewart as Earl Boettiger

Murray Alper as Goddard's Taxi Driver

Frank Hagney as Motorcycle Cop

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.

All About Eve

1950

English

8.2

♡ 64

99%

Joseph L. Mankiewicz Director

Walter Hampden as Aged Actor

Thelma Ritter as Birdie Coonan

Helen Mowery as Reporter

Ethelreda Leopold as Sarah Siddons Awards Guest

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

Night and the City

1950

English

7.8

♡ 23

86%

90%

Action

based on novel or book

Jules Dassin Director

Hugh Marlowe as Adam Dunn

Betty Shale as Mrs. Pinkney

Kay Kendall as One of Helen's Girls

Peter Butterworth as Thug

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.

The Men

1950

English

7.1

♡ 8

79%

73%

bodily disabled person

broken engagement

depression

Drama

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

rehabilitation

war veteran

Fred Zinnemann Director

Everett Sloane as Dr. Brock

Cliff Clark as Dr. Kameran

Richard Erdman as Leo Doolin

Sam Gilman as (uncredited)

Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm, Leo and Angel begin to pull him out of his spiritual dilemma.

The Furies

1950

English

7.2

♡ 4

92%

Anthony Mann Director

Louis Jean Heydt as Bailey

Thomas Gomez as El Tigre

Jane Novak as Party Guest

Wendell Corey as Rip Darrow

A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion

1950

English

6.3

♡ 4

58%

Charles Lamont Director

Bobby Barber as Arab on Jeep's Hood

Henry Corden as Ibrim

Walter Slezak as Sgt. Axmann

Douglass Dumbrille as Sheik Hamud El Khalid

Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.

One Way Street

1950

English

6.5

♡ 3

25%

Hugo Fregonese Director

Kenneth Tobey as Cop at Second Accident

James Mason as Dr. Frank Matson

James Best as Driver

Dan Duryea as John Wheeler

After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.

Undercover Girl

1950

English

6.4

♡ 3

Joseph Pevney Director

Connie Gilchrist as Capt. Sadie Parker

Regis Toomey as Hank Miller

Richard Egan as Jess Faylen

Betty Lou Gerson as Pat - Nurse

After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.

Kansas Raiders

1950

English

6.1

♡ 2

35%

Drama

jesse james

Western

Ray Enright Director

James Best as Cole Younger

Richard Long as Frank James

Frank Mills as Raider

George Chandler as Willie

Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.