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Champion (1949), Home of the Brave (1949), The Men (1950), Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), Death of a Salesman (1951), High Noon (1952), The Wild One (1954), and The Caine MutinyThe Caine Mutiny is a 1954 movie directed by Edward Dmytryk of the fictional story of a mutiny aboard a World War II US naval vessel, and the subsequent court-martial. The film is based upon Herman Wouk's best-selling, and 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning nove (1954).
Not As a Stranger (1955). The Defiant OnesThe Defiant Ones is a 1958 film which tells about two escaped prisoners, one white and one black, who must co-operate in order to survive. It stars Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Cara Williams, Charles McGraw and Lon Chaney Jr. The movie was (1958), On the BeachOn the Beach is a post-apocalyptic end-of-the-world novel written by British author Nevil Shute after he had emigrated to Australia. The novel was adapted for the screenplay of a 1959 movie featuring Gregory Peck (USS Sawfish captain Dwight Lionel Towers) (1959), Inherit the WindInherit the Wind is a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. It is a fictionalized account of the Scopes Trial, with the parts of real-life opposing attorneys William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow being named Matthew Harrison Brady and Henry Drummond, (1960), Judgment at NurembergJudgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 film which gives a fictionalized account of the post- World War II Nuremberg Trials. It stars Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Spencer Tracy, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Werner Klemp (1961), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldIt's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a comedy that followed the Hollywood trend in the 1960s of producing "gigantic" and "epic" films as a way to woo audiences into movie theaters. Television had sapped the regular moviegoing audience and box office revenue (1963), Guess Who's Coming to DinnerGuess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 award-winning bi-racial comedy movie starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Houghton. The movie was about a young white American woman (Houghton) who went on a holiday to Hawaii wher (1967).
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