Movies of the 50s

At a time when people were terrified of UFOs and Communism the movie industry was busy producing movies that ranged from film noir to suspense to grandiose musicals; apparently the paranoid public in the 1950s wanted family entertainment and dark brooding pictures in equal doses. The result is a decades worth of truly monumental cinema from Hitchcock masterpieces (Vertigo Psycho Rear Window) to comedy classics (Tatis Mr. Hulots Holiday Billy Wilders Some Like it Hot) to groundbreaking nouvelle vague films (Godards Breathless Truffauts The Four Hundred Blows) and profound innovative dramas such as Antonionis L?Avventura Fellinis La Strada John Hustons Misfits and Kubricks Paths of Glory. Though censorship kept sex safely off-screen sexy stars such as James Dean Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe provided plenty of heat in Rebel Without a Cause A Streetcar Named Desire and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes respectively. A survey of the most important films of the 1950s