The Men

Actors: Marlon Brando, Ray Teal, Richard Erdman, Everett Sloane, Teresa Wright, Cliff Clark, Howard St. John

Directors: Fred Zinnemann

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX

Year: 1950

Ex-GI Ken who as a result of a war wound is paralyzed below the waist. In the hospital back home, he passes through an initial period of depression with the help of a sympathetic Dr. Brock and his faithful fianc

Sunset Blvd.

Actors: Hedda Hopper, H.B. Warner, William Holden, Larry J. Blake, Franklyn Farnum, Nancy Olson, Buster Keaton

Directors: Billy Wilder

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod

Year: 1950

The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness.

My Friend Irma Goes West

Actors: Kenneth Tobey, Dean Martin, Don Porter, Jerry Lewis, Marie Wilson, Lloyd Corrigan, Corinne Calvet

Directors: Hal Walker

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX

Year: 1950

In this sequel film, all the characters remain the same; Al is still unemployed, Jane still has show-biz aspirations for boyfriend Steve; Steve and Seymour are still partners, and Irma is still Irma, which isn't all that easy. Al gets Steve a singing job on television, which is seen by a Hollywood producer. He signs Steve to a long term movie contract, and all hands depart for Hollywood. But, alas, the producer turns out to be an escaped lunatic, and they end up in Las Vegas, where Irma manages to get kidnapped by gangsters, who are very unhappy with Irma.

Three Little Words

Actors: Keenan Wynn, Arlene Dahl, Debbie Reynolds, Fred Astaire, Harry Shannon, Vera-Ellen, Paul Harvey

Directors: Richard Thorpe

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1950

Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury for while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricst. Per chance he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry is former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact, that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their relation.

Rio Grande

Actors: John Wayne, Alberto Morin, Harry Carey Jr., Ben Johnson, Maureen O'Hara, J. Carrol Naish, Victor McLaglen

Directors: John Ford

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1950

Rio Grande takes place after the Civil War when the Union turned their attention towards the Apaches. Union officer Kirby Yorke is in charge of an outpost on the Rio Grande in which he is in charge of training of new recruits one of which is his son whom he hasn't seen in 15 years. He whips him into shape to take on the Apaches but not before his mother shows up to take him out of there.The decision to leave is left up to Trooper Yorke who decides to stay and fight. Through it all Kirby and Kathleen though separated for years fall back into love and decide that it's time to give it another try. But Yorke faces his toughest battle when his uno...

Breakthrough

Actors: Paul Picerni, John Agar, Howard Negley, Frank Lovejoy, William Campbell, Dick Wesson, David Brian

Directors: Lewis Seiler

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1950

Story of an American infantry unit from its basic training to combat in Europe.

The Astonished Heart

Actors: Michael Hordern, Celia Johnson, Noel Coward, Graham Payn, Alan Webb, Ralph Michael, Margaret Leighton

Directors: Unknown

Country: UK

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1950

The film begins with a scene in which Barbara rings Leonora to tell her that something has happened to Chris. At this point, we don't know who Chris is or what has happened, only that he has lost conciousness. The film then flashes back a year, to when the old friends Barbara and Leonora meet again after having lost contact for many years. Time has not strained their relationship it seems, and Barbara invites Leonora to her house a few days later to meet her husband. Her husband Chris, a pompous, austere psychologist, gets off to a bad start with Leonora. The two despise each other until one night when Barbara has to leave town to look after ...

Dakota Lil

Actors: Walter Sande, Alberto Morin, Clancy Cooper, Kenneth MacDonald, Lillian Bronson, James Flavin, Jack Lambert

Directors: Lesley Selander

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1950

Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits.

The Sound of Fury aka Try and Get Me

Actors: Richard Carlson, Lloyd Bridges, Harry Shannon, Adele Jergens, Frank Lovejoy, Cliff Clark, Art Smith

Directors: Cy Endfield

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1950

A man down on his luck falls in with a criminal. After a senseless murder, the two are lynched.

Union Station

Actors: Lyle Bettger, Parley Baer, William Holden, Herbert Heyes, Nancy Olson, Richard Karlan, Jan Sterling

Directors: Rudolph Maté

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1950

Secretary Joyce Willecombe grows suspicious of two men boarding her train and is referred to 'Tough Willy' Calhoun, head of the Union Station police. The all-seeing, no-nonsense Calhoun is initially skeptical, but the men (who escape) prove to be involved in a kidnap case. Calhoun calls in equally tough police Inspector Donnelly, but the ruthless kidnapper's precision planning stays one jump ahead of them. Most of the action centers around bustling Union Station.

The Sleeping City

Actors: John Alexander, Richard Conte, Alex Nicol, Coleen Gray, Peggy Dow, Richard Taber

Directors: George Sherman

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1950

At Bellvue Hospital, New York, an intern is shot in the head by an unknown killer. Inspector Gordon of the 9th Precinct finds no obvious leads but senses an undercurrent of mystery at the hospital; enter Detective Fred Rowan, whose medical background enables him to pose as an intern. Through wheels within wheels, Rowan finally penetrates to a secret, dirty racket...and nurse Ann Sebastian, whom he's been dating, may be mixed up in it.

Nancy Goes to Rio

Actors: Fortunio Bonanova, Louis Calhern, Nella Walker, Barry Sullivan, Hans Conried, Frank Fontaine, Jane Powell

Directors: Robert Z. Leonard

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX

Year: 1950

Mother and daughter (Sothern and Powell) compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.

Two Weeks with Love

Actors: Charles Smith, Debbie Reynolds, Louis Calhern, Clinton Sundberg, Ricardo Montalban, Phyllis Kirk, Jane Powell

Directors: Roy Rowland

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX

Year: 1950

The Robinson family, father, mother and two daughters, are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her father thinks she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.

My Blue Heaven

Actors: Louise Beavers, Una Merkel, David Wayne, Dan Dailey, Betty Grable, Mitzi Gaynor, Jane Wyatt

Directors: Henry Koster

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX

Year: 1950

Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby, finally acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner. Complications follow amid a series of musical numbers much too good for 1950 TV.

The Asphalt Jungle

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Marilyn Monroe, James Whitmore, Marc Lawrence, John McIntire, Sam Jaffe, William 'Wee Willie' Davis

Directors: John Huston

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1950

'Doc' Riedenschneider, legendary crime 'brain' just out of prison, has a brilliant plan for a million-dollar burglary. To pull it off, he recruits safecracker Louis, driver Gus, financial backer Emmerich, and strong-arm man Dix Handley. At first the plan goes like clockwork, but little accidents accumulate and each partner proves to have his own fatal weakness. In the background is a pervasive, grimy urban malaise.

Night and the City

Actors: Hugh Marlowe, Richard Widmark, Herbert Lom, Mike Mazurki, Gene Tierney, Francis L. Sullivan, Charles Farrell

Directors: Jules Dassin

Country: UK

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1950

Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the world, Gregorius, at a London wrestling arena run by his son Kristo, he dreams up a scheme that he thinks will finally be his ticket to financial independence. As Fabian attempts to con everyone around him to get his scheme to work, he of course only ends up conning himself. This is an interesting tale of blind ambition, self-deception, broken dreams, and how a man who always thinks he's ahead of the game ends up tripping himself very badly.

Casper the Friendly Ghost - Season One

Actors: Frank Welker, Lucille Bliss, Ginny Tyler, Hal Smith, John Stephenson, Marilyn Schreffler, Julie McWhirter

Directors: Carl Urbano

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX

Year: 1950

Given that Casper is depicted as a ghostly, portly little boy, there is a controversy among fans of the series about whether or not he is a dead child. Early Casper cartoons seemed to suggest this, as they portrayed him "living" beside a gravestone. Specifically, the short There's Good Boos To-Night featured Ferdie, a fox befriended by Casper, coming back from the dead as a ghost. Casper's death (as well as the reason why he became friendly) have been disputed since that time.

Harvey

Actors: James Stewart, Charles Drake, Jesse White, Cecil Kellaway, Wallace Ford, Victoria Horne, Nana Bryant

Directors: Henry Koster

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1950

The classic stage hit gets the Hollywood treatment in the story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

Studio Stoops

Actors: Kenneth MacDonald, Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Christine McIntyre, Vernon Dent

Directors: Edward Bernds

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1950

The stooges are hired by a movie studio as publicity men. Their first assignment is to get publicity for Dolly Devore, a pretty starlet. They fake a kidnapping, but the cops won't believe their story. Then the girl is really kidnapped and the stooges must come to the rescue. Shemp winds up hanging out a tenth story window on an extending telephone.

Slaphappy Sleuths

Actors: Shemp Howard, Stanley Blystone, Gene Roth, Emil Sitka, Moe Howard, Larry Fine

Directors: Jules White

Country: USA

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1950

The stooges are investigators for the Onion Oil company. The company's service stations are being robbed by a gang of crooks, so the boys pose as gas station attendants to capture the bad guys.