The Final Five
Who among committed classic film bloggers could possibly resist the chance to join a blogathon honoring National Classic Movie Day? I couldn’t, but this year’s blog-fest posed a tough challenge.
The Classic Film and TV Café aka/Rick, its
founder, is once more hosting a National Classic Movie Day Blogathon. This year
participants were challenged to choose and elaborate on their five favorite
films of the ‘50s. Only five. From the ‘50s. Impossible. I made the effort and
eventually whittled my list down to 10 or so films, but other titles continued to
pop into my head, so I decided to go at it from another angle.
What I’ve done is take a look at the films of two popular stars, two filmmakers and a studio that were all at their peak during the decade and
then selected one favorite from each out of their 1950s filmographies. Here goes…
