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1
Jack Clayton • Starring: Deborah Kerr, Megs Jenkins, Martin Stephens
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • British New Wave • Ghost Film
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2
Nicholas Ray • Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Family Drama
3
John Sturges • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
Mystery • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
4
Elia Kazan • Starring: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey
Americana • Drama • Family Drama
5
Damien Chazelle • Starring: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, Finn Wittrock
Drama • Musical Romance • Musical
6
Fred M. Wilcox • Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen
Action • Adventure • Based-on-Shakespeare
7
John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: William Powell, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Ensemble Film
8
Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki • Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda
Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films • Epic
9
George Cukor • Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson
Drama • Marriage Drama • Musical Drama
10
Billy Wilder • Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Domestic Comedy
11
Leo McCarey • Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Charles Watts
Comedy Drama • Drama • Melodrama
12
Sam Peckinpah • Starring: Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley
Adventure • Drama • Revisionist Western
13
Richard Fleischer • Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas
Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Family
14
Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Frank Sinatra
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Crime
15
Anthony Mann • Starring: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp
Mystery • Western
16
NIcholas Ray • Starring: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
Drama • Family Drama • Medical Drama
17
Clyde Geronimi • Starring: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee
Animated Musical • Animation • Family
18
Walter Lang • Starring: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Musical Romance
19
Kurt Neumann • Starring: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price
Body Horror • Horror • Monster Film
20
Stanley Donen • Starring: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards
Americana • Comedy • Musical Comedy
21
Michael Gordon • Starring: Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Doris Day
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Comedy of Errors
22
Jean Negulesco • Starring: Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Drama
23
Walter Lang • Starring: Dina Merrill, Joan Blondell, Katharine Hepburn
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Romance
24
Martin Ritt • Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa
Drama • Family Drama
25
Henry Levin • Starring: Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl
Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Adventure
26
George Stevens • Starring: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
27
Max Ophüls • Starring: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook
28
Joshua Logan • Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell
Comedy • Drama • Melodrama
29
Michael Curtiz • Starring: John Wayne, Nehemiah Persoff, Stuart Whitman
Action • Adventure • Romance
30
Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson
Based-on-Theatre • Fantasy • Musical Romance
31
Budd Boetticher • Starring: Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts
Traditional Western • Western
32
Dick Powell • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison
Combat Films • Drama • War
33
Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson
Americana • Based-on-Theatre • Musical
34
Joshua Logan • Starring: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field
Americana • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
35
Samuel Fuller • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger
Western
36
Carol Reed • Starring: Maureen O'Hara, Alec Guinness, Ernie Kovacs
Comedy Drama • Drama • Political Satire
37
John Huston • Starring: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Drama • Odd Couple Film • Romance
38
Frank Tashlin • Starring: Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake
Comedy • Romance • Satire
39
Henry Hathaway • Starring: John Wayne, Ernie Kovacs, Fabian
Action • Action Comedy • Adventure Comedy
40
Elia Kazan • Starring: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet
Drama • Rural Drama • Social Problem Film
41
Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin
Drama • Romance • War
42
Anatole Litvak • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Period Film
43
Otto Preminger • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Period Film
44
Samuel Fuller • Starring: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi
Crime Drama • Crime • Detective Film
45
Irwin Allen • Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden
Adventure • Disaster Film • Science Fiction
46
Otto Preminger • Starring: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Brock Peters
Based-on-Theatre • Musical Romance • Musical
47
Nunnally Johnson • Starring: Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cob
Drama • Mystery • Psychological Drama
48
Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis • Starring: Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott
Alien Invasion Films • Apocalyptic Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
49
Daniel Mann • Starring: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Sigrid Valdis
Action Comedy • Action • Comedy
50
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly • Starring: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
Comedy Drama • Drama • Musical Comedy
51
Frank Tashlin • Starring: Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Little Richard
Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
52
Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Dorothy Malone, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn
Drama • Revisionist Western • Romance
53
Daniel Mann • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
54
Henry King • Starring: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell
Based-on-Theatre • Fantasy • Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies
55
Mark Robson • Starring: Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Diane Varsi
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Ensemble Film
56
Douglas Sirk • Starring: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
57
Gordon Douglas • Starring: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale
58
Raoul Walsh • Starring: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan
59
William A. Wellman • Starring: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Robert Stack
Action • Disaster Film • Drama
60
Delmer Daves • Starring: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger
Drama • Ensemble Film • Western
61
Henry Koster • Starring: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature
Drama • Epic • Religious Drama
62
Michael Gordon • Starring: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
63
Ronald Neame • Starring: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng
Based-on-a-True-Story • Drama • Historical Film
64
Henry Hathaway • Starring: Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, Rita Moreno
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
65
Jean Negulesco • Starring: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore
Musical • Musical Romance • Romance
66
Jesse Hibbs • Starring: Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake
67
Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson
Based-on-Theatre • Coming-of-Age • Drama
68
Henry Koster • Starring: June Allyson, David Niven, Jessie Royce Landis
Comedy • Comedy of Manners • Sophisticated Comedy
69
George Cukor • Starring: Yves Montand, Frankie Vaughan, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Comedy • Musical Comedy • Musical Romance
70
Gerd Oswald • Starring: Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward, Virginia Leith
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
71
Lewis Gilbert • Starring: Dana Wynter, Karel Stepanek, Laurence Naismith
72
Henry Koster • Starring: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian
Comedy • Domestic Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy
73
Walter Lang • Starring: Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor
Comedy Drama • Drama • Musical
74
Andrew Marton • Starring: Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, James Philbrook
Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
75
Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige
Comedy • Musical Comedy • Musical
76
Douglas Sirk • Starring: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney
Anti-War Film • Drama • Melodrama
77
Rudolph Maté • Starring: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
78
Don Siegel • Starring: Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest
Musical • Western
79
Charles Walters • Starring: Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne
80
Delmer Daves • Starring: Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie
81
Paul Wendkos • Starring: Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, James Darren
Beach Party Film • Comedy
82
Rudolph Maté • Starring: Richard Egan, Diane Baker, Anna Synodinou
Epic • Historical Epic • Historical Film
83
Budd Boetticher • Starring: Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins
Action • Drama • Outlaw
84
Charles Walters • Starring: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige
85
Jean Negulesco • Starring: Clifton Webb, Louis Jourdan, Rossano Brazzi
Adventure • Drama • Romance
86
John Farrow • Starring: John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar
Adventure • Chase Movie • Sea Adventure
87
John Sturges • Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson, Peter Lawford
Action • Drama • Romance
88
Mark Robson • Starring: Ronald Squire, Noel Hood, Robert Donat
89
Delmer Daves • Starring: Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, James MacArthur
Americana • Comedy Drama • Drama
90
William A. Wellman • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn
91
Nunnally Johnson • Starring: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March
Drama • Psychological Drama
92
Howard W. Koch • Starring: Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund
Horror • Monster Film • Sci-Fi Horror
93
John Ford • Starring: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis
94
William A. Wellman • Starring: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure
95
Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters
Drama • Family Drama • Psychological Drama
96
Richard Quine • Starring: Jack Lemmon, Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett
97
Richard Thorpe • Starring: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer
98
Joseph Pevney • Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, Walter Brennan
99
Henry Hathaway • Starring: Rod Steiger, Edward G. Robinson, Michael Dante
Caper • Crime • Crime Drama
100
Nunnally Johnson • Starring: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney
Detective Film • Film Noir • Mystery
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