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This great film kicks off perhaps the best decade of movies


Because of TV the fifties became a great decade for film. Beginning with this magnificent picture this decade had more good ones than any other. Peaking in 1957 with "Paths of Glory", "Edge 0f the City", "A Hatfull of Rain", "Twelve Angry Men", "No Time for Sargents", "Pal Joey", and "The Strange One" among others. Other superb films of the 50s include: "Patterns", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Strangers On a Train", "The Blackboard Jungle", "Some Like It Hot", "3:10 to Yuma", "The Harder They Fall", "The Caine Mutiny", "The Killing" just to name a few. The incomparable Huston followed up this classic with "The African Queen", "Beat the Devil" and "Moby Dick" later in the decade.

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It was an incredible decade for film. Probably the best. Great noir, great westerns, great Hitchcock!

This film might be the third best of that year after Sunset Blvd and All about Eve.

The author is obviously a big Bogie fan and so am but there is nothing special about Beat the devil.

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It's my personal opinion that there isn't really a best decade for film. This is a fine list of wonderful films, but the '70s gave us Annie Hall, Star Wars, The Godfather, and Apocalypse Now. There are great films (and crummy films) in every decade.

Also, it's weird that nobody mentioned Seven Samurai as one of the all-time best for the '50s.

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