1950 Top Ten List
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
The Furies (Anthony Mann)
Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
Stromboli (Roberto Rosselini)
Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan)
Wagon Master (John Ford)
Additional 1950 Films By Rating
Stars in My Crown (Jacques Tourneur)
La Ronde (Max Ophuls)
The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
Shakedown (Joe Pevney)
Variety Lights (Alberto Lattuada & Federico Fellini)
Summer Stock (Charles Walters)
Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
Tension (John Berry)
Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann)
The Flame and the Arrow (Jacques Tourneur)
Captain Carey, U.S.A. (Mitchell Leisen)
The Sound of Fury (Cyril Endfield)
Rio Grande (John Ford)
At War With the Army (Hal Walker)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
Les Enfants terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rosselini)
The Sleeping City (George Sherman)
Born Yesterday (George Cukor)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Gordon Douglas)
Never Fear (Ida Lupino)
Annie Get Your Gun (George Sidney)
Gone to Earth (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

if I
currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to
being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit
them and they get a numeral. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are
especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were
in many cases already pretty dusty.)