Good 50's Films: From Here to Eternity

1953 Romance Drama
From Columbia Pictures
Directed by Fred Zinnemann

Starring
Burt Lancaster
Montgomery Clift
Deborah Kerr
Donna Reed
Frank Sinatra
Ernest Borgnine
Philip Ober
Jack Warden

James Dean: The First American Teenager

He was a renegade... an outsider... a con artist... an iconoclast.  He wasn't so much ahead of his time as he defined his time.  He wasn't an original because two others, Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando, hit the scene a little earlier, but the trio was original.  Hollywood had truly never seen anything like any of them.  Dean idolized both actors, recognizing that he had their same enormous talent and deeply troubling ways.

Movie-Making in the 1950s

Ah, at last we have made it to the 1950's, my favorite movie decade.  I could never dispute that the Golden Age of Hollywood, the 1930's and 1940's, was the best that was ever served up and I said as much when those decades were highlighted.  But for me there's never been any that tripped my switches like the fabulous fifties.  There's a good reason.