Film "Bad Day At Black Rock" (1955)

[ecc]

Watched this last night for the first time. All-time classic. Will be considered very tame by today's standards but a simple story well told.

Fantastic cast with Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin and Walter Brennan.

Superb colour cinematography. Just love films showing tiny US towns in the middle of the desert.

[Lancasterclaret]

Watched this last night for the first time. All-time classic. Will be considered very tame by today's standards but a simple story well told.

Fantastic cast with Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin and Walter Brennan.

Superb colour cinematography. Just love films showing tiny US towns in the middle of the desert.

Watched "The Outlaw Josey Wales" in a little barn cinema in the town in Utah where it was actually filmed - tremendous

[Caernarfon_Claret]

Watched this last night for the first time. All-time classic. Will be considered very tame by today's standards but a simple story well told.

Fantastic cast with Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin and Walter Brennan.

Superb colour cinematography. Just love films showing tiny US towns in the middle of the desert.

Great film.

1955 a good year for Ernest Borgnine - Won Oscar best Actor for title character in "Marty".

[Silkyskills1]

Watched this last night for the first time. All-time classic. Will be considered very tame by today's standards but a simple story well told.

Fantastic cast with Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin and Walter Brennan.

Superb colour cinematography. Just love films showing tiny US towns in the middle of the desert.

Brilliant film with Spencer Tracy at his absolute best.

[Caernarfon_Claret]

Try "Night of the Hunter" from 1955 - Charles Laughton's only film as a director and universally panned at the time.

Robert Mitchum in possibly his finest role.

[Lip]

Ernest Borgnine was a great actor.Starred in many a film.

[Nonayforever]

That's when films were made with the best actors, not the best looking actors.

[Caernarfon_Claret]

Of course 1954 trumps 1955 for Movies

Rear Window
On the Waterfront
Seven Samurai
La Strada

[Caernarfon_Claret]

I highly recommend Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953) hard hitting 'B' movie with Richard Widmark

[Bosscat]

The original 1957 "3.10 to Yuma" with Van Heflin and Glenn Ford a cracker too ... far superior to the Russell Crowe remake

[bobinho]

A personal favourite of mine as a youngster was “the wicked lady” from 1945 with the wonderful Margaret Lockwood. If I remember right, James Mason was also in it.

[ecc]

Some top films mentioned there.

Violent Saturday, also with Lee Marvin, is good as is Edge of Eternity (Don Siegel).

[Stalbansclaret]

One of my all time favourite films from this era is Twelve Angry Men , made in 1957. Henry Fonda as the morally upright and decent man in the white suit who gradually persuades his fellow jurors and turns a 11-1 "Guilty" verdict into a "Not Guilty". It''s absolutely superb.

[Hipper]

I just saw an unassuming little film on Talking Pictures TV called 'Tomorrow':

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069393/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_2

[bobinho]

One of my all time favourite films from this era is Twelve Angry Men , made in 1957. Henry Fonda as the morally upright and decent man in the white suit who gradually persuades his fellow jurors and turns a 11-1 "Guilty" verdict into a "Not Guilty". It''s absolutely superb.

Right. Won't bother with that then...

[Caernarfon_Claret]

One of my all time favourite films from this era is Twelve Angry Men , made in 1957. Henry Fonda as the morally upright and decent man in the white suit who gradually persuades his fellow jurors and turns a 11-1 "Guilty" verdict into a "Not Guilty". It''s absolutely superb.

Yes 1957 a great year for films.

Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick - Kirk Douglas)

The Seventh Seal & Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)

Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa - retelling of Macbeth)

Sweet Smell of Success

Twelve Angry Men

Witness for the Prosecution

The Bridge on the River Kwai...

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One of my all time favourite films from this era is Twelve Angry Men , made in 1957. Henry Fonda as the morally upright and decent man in the white suit who gradually persuades his fellow jurors and turns a 11-1 "Guilty" verdict into a "Not Guilty". It''s absolutely superb.

Spoiler alert

[Clovius Boofus]

Yes 1957 a great year for films.

The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)

Excellent choice.

[Stalbansclaret]

Right. Won't bother with that then...

Ha …. In fairness I think most people know the premise of the film and, if not, it’s pretty clear early on what the idea is. I mean everyone who went to watch Titanic knew the boat would sink.

[Caernarfon_Claret]

Ha …. In fairness I think most people know the premise of the film and, if not, it’s pretty clear early on what the idea is. I mean everyone who went to watch Titanic knew the boat would sink.

A Night to Remember (a much more factual retelling although with unrealistic iceberg model ship being sunk scenario) was interestingly enough a film released in 1958 (Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, David McCallum)

[dsr]

Ha …. In fairness I think most people know the premise of the film and, if not, it’s pretty clear early on what the idea is. I mean everyone who went to watch Titanic knew the boat would sink.

That's another one I don't need to watch.

I'm not going to bother with "The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford" either.