Good 50's Films: Titanic

1953 Drama
From 20th Century Fox
Directed by Jean Negulesco

Starring
Clifton Webb
Barbara Stanwyck
Robert Wagner
Audrey Dalton
Richard Basehart
Thelma Ritter
Brian Aherne
Harper Carter
Frances Bergen
Edmund Purdom

The Directors: Elia Kazan

The name Elia Kazan conjures many things for many people and always has.  He helped bring about a famous acting school, he was the go-to Broadway director of his day and he provided the movie industry with a basketful of classical films.  He was a producer and a writer, both of screenplays and novels.  

REVIEW: Green Book

Directed by Peter Farrelly
2018 Comedy Drama
2 hours 10 minutes
From Universal

Starring
Viggo Mortensen
Mahershala Ali
Linda Cardellini

Good 50's Films: Witness for the Prosecution

1957 Courtroom Drama
From United Artists
Directed by Billy Wilder

Starring
Tyrone Power
Marlene Dietrich
Charles Laughton
Elsa Lanchester
John Williams
Torin Thatcher
Henry Daniell
Una O'Connor
Ian Wolfe
Norma Varden
Ruta Lee

REVIEW: A Private War

Directed by Matthew Heineman
2018 Biographical War Drama
1 hour 50 minutes
From Aviron Pictures

Starring
Rosamund Pike
Jamie Dornan
Tom Hollander
Nikki Amuka-Bird
Stanley Tucci

Guilty Pleasures: Suddenly Last Summer

1959 Drama
From Columbia Pictures
Directed by Joseph Mankiewicz

Starring
Elizabeth Taylor
Montgomery Clift 
Katharine Hepburn
Mercedes McCambridge
Albert Dekker
Gary Raymond
Mavis Villiers

REVIEW: Boy Erased

Directed by Joel Edgerton
2018 Drama
1 hour 54 minutes
From Focus Features

Starring
Lucas Hedges
Nicole Kidman
Joel Edgerton
Russell Crowe

Mitzi Gaynor

What a little firecracker she was in a handful of musicals in the 1950's.  She would be nearly forgotten perhaps had she not landed the lead in South Pacific in 1958.  When she quit films five years later she said it was because I wasn't very hot, I was just ordinary.  I don't think that was true.  She was an exquisite dancer, a good singer, she handled dramatic scenes well, she was lovely to look at, there was a vibrancy about her that was unmistakable... and yet there was something that didn't tie it all up.  We'll look into that.

REVIEW: Bohemian Rhapsody

Directed by Bryan Singer
2018 Musical Biography
2 hours 14 minutes
From 20th Century Fox

Starring
Rami Malek
Gwilym Lee
Ben Hardy
Joe Mazzello
Lucy Boynton
Aiden Gillen
Allen Leach
Tom Hollander
Aaron McCusker