Top 10 Films of the 1950s

Welcome to our 24th Top 10 Episode where Anders & Adam Holmes list their top 10 favourite films of the 1950s.

To round off this season of top 10 episodes, the Holmes Brothers will going back and looking at each decade of cinema and list their 10 favourite films.

This episode, they are going to be looking at the 1950s. The 50s was a very interesting decade for cinema. A stressful time in someways for Hollywood. Independent production companies started up, TV became a big competition, paranoia and fears of communism, cold war and nuclear weapons clouded over people and European cinema in countries such a France and Sweden was flourishing. It was the decade of blacklisting, HUAC and McCarthyism. What classic films of this period are in Adam and Anders's lists? Where do films like Vertigo, The Searchers, The Night of the Hunter, 12 Angry Men and The Seventh Seal land on their lists? Listen here and find out.

We hope you enjoy it and we hope you come back for more. Next episode, it's going to be about the 1940s and each of their 10 favourite films from that period. So stay tuned for that.

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Here is an oldie but a goodie: Our episode on Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter.

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Here is Anders's full list on Letterboxd of his favourite films of the 1950s!

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