100 or 101 Best Movies of the 1950s Survey

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1. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
2. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirō Ozu)
4. Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)
5. Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
6. Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
7. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
8. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, David Lean)
9. On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
10. Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
11. La Strada (1954, Federico Fellini)
12. The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
13. Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)
14. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Elia Kazan)
15. The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
16. Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
17. Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)
18. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955, Ingmar Bergman)
19. High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
20. Throne of Blood (1957, Akira Kurosawa)
21. Roman Holiday (1953, William Wyler)
22. The 400 Blows (1959, François Truffaut)
23. Forbidden Planet (1956, Fred M. Wilcox)
24. All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
25. Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)