Tarnished

Tarnished 1950

5.80

Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation.

1950

The Fuller Brush Girl

The Fuller Brush Girl 1950

6.00

A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.

1950

My Friend Irma Goes West

My Friend Irma Goes West 1950

6.10

Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train and end up involved with a gang of murderous gangsters in Las Vegas.

1950

Backfire

Backfire 1950

5.80

When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.

1950

Motor Mania

Motor Mania 1950

6.80

Mild-mannered average guy Mr. Walker (Goofy) turns into violent Mr. Wheeler when he starts driving. Back on his feet, Mr. Walker finds it nearly impossible to cross the street.

1950

Caiçara

Caiçara 1950

7.00

Marina, a beautiful young woman with leprous parents, marries a shipyard owner to escape an institution. She moves to a coastal village, faces gossip, and is assaulted by her husband’s partner. After her husband dies in a boat accident, a handsome sailor arrives, and Marina is blackmailed about her family’s health issues.

1950

Stage Fright

Stage Fright 1950

6.80

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

1950

Convicted

Convicted 1950

6.10

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

1950

The Gunfighter

The Gunfighter 1950

7.30

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

1950

Girls' School

Girls' School 1950

6.00

A young woman hides out at a school after inheriting $30,000 from her father.

1950

Frisco Tornado

Frisco Tornado 1950

6.00

U.S. marshal sets out to end an insurance scam: salesmen provide cow town folk with insurance against outlaw activity, outlaws who work for the insurance salesmen.

1950

Ang Bombero

Ang Bombero 1950

1

A hotheaded man becomes a firefighter and is morally tested by other firefighters to join them in an illegal racket.

1950

Francis

Francis 1950

5.60

During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named Francis speaks to him.

1950

Beyond the Hills

Beyond the Hills 1950

1

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

1950

The Flying Saucer

The Flying Saucer 1950

3.60

The CIA sends playboy Mike Trent to Alaska with agent Vee Langley, posing as his "nurse," to investigate flying saucer sightings. At first, installed in a hunting lodge, the two play in the wilderness. But then they sight a saucer. Investigating, our heroes clash with an inept gang of Soviet spies, also after the saucer secret.

1950

Hi-Jacked

Hi-Jacked 1950

5.00

A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.

1950

Buccaneer's Girl

Buccaneer's Girl 1950

5.60

A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.

1950

King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines 1950

6.50

Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing husband lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.

1950

The Hank McCune Show

The Hank McCune Show 1950

1

The Hank McCune Show is an American television situation comedy. Filmed without a studio audience, the series is notable for being the first program to incorporate a laugh track. The series began as a local Los Angeles program in 1949. NBC placed it on its national primetime schedule at the start of the 1950-51 season. It debuted at 7:00pm Eastern Time on September 9 and was cancelled three months later.

1950

The Hazel Scott Show

The Hazel Scott Show 1950

1

The Hazel Scott Show was an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran during the summer of 1950, and is most notable for being the first U.S. network television series to be hosted by a African American woman.

1950

Hawkins Falls, Population 6200

Hawkins Falls, Population 6200 1950

5.00

Hawkins Falls, Population 6200 is the first successful American television soap opera. Sponsored by Unilever's blue detergent, Surf, the program began as a one hour comedy-drama on June 17, 1950, and ran in prime time on the NBC network until October 12, 1950. On April 2, 1951, the series was moved to a fifteen-minute daytime slot, where it was retitled Hawkins Falls: A Television Novel, and developed into a soap opera format. Hawkins Falls ran until July 1, 1955, making it NBC's longest running soap opera until The Doctors exceeded it in 1967. The town of Hawkins Falls was patterned after the real-life town of Woodstock, Illinois.

1950

Country Style

Country Style 1950

1

Country Style was an American musical variety show on the DuMont Television Network from July 29 to November 25, 1950 on Saturday nights from 8–9 p.m. Eastern Time The setting was a small town bandstand on a Saturday night. Musical numbers, comedy vignettes and square dancing took place around the bandstand, where Alvy West and the Volunteer Firemens' Band played. The host was Peggy Ann Ellis. Regulars included Pat Adair, Bob Austin, Emily Barnes, Gordon Dilworth, and The Folk Dancers. As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to survive.

1950

Rootie Kazootie

Rootie Kazootie 1950

1

Rootie Kazootie was the principal character on the 1950s children's television show The Rootie Kazootie Club. The show was the creation of Steve Carlin and featured human actors along with hand puppets.

1950