A new, rejiggered list of where my heart currently is regarding the films of the 1950s:

1.) In a Lonely Place (Ray, 1950)
2.) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
3.) Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
4.) Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
5.) Night and the City (Dassin, 1950)
6.) Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
7.) Ace in the Hole (Wilder, 1951)
8.) A Face in the Crowd (Kazan, 1957)
9.) Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951)
10.) Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955)
11.) The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
12.) Winchester ’73 (Mann, 1950)
13.) Singin’ in the Rain (Kelly & Donen, 1952)
14.) Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)
15.) Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
16.) Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
17.) Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick, 1957)
18.) The Big Heat (Lang, 1953)
19.) Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957)
20.) The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
21.) Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
22.) Mon Oncle (Tati, 1958)
23.) On Dangerous Ground (Ray, 1952)
24.) Bob le Flambeur (Melville, 1956)
25.) Pickup on South Street (Fuller, 1953)
26.) Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)
27.) Rififi (Dassin, 1955)
28.) 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
29.) Diabolique (Clouzot, 1955)
30.) Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
31.) All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950)
32.) There’s Always Tomorrow (Sirk, 1956)
33.) The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
34.) Stalag 17 (Wilder, 1953)
35.) Forty Guns (Fuller, 1957)
36.) North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
37.) The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1953)
38.) The Man from Laramie (Mann, 1955)
39.) The Tarnished Angels (Sirk, 1957)
40.) Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Tashlin, 1957)
41.) Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954)
42.) Fires on the Plain (Ichikawa, 1959)
43.) Orpheus (Cocteau, 1950)
44.) Roman Holiday (Wyler, 1953)
45.) Alice in Wonderland (1951)
46.) The Lusty Men (Ray, 1952)
47.) The Far Country (Mann, 1957)
48.) The Asphalt Jungle (Huston, 1950)
49.) The Killing (Kubrick, 1956)
50.) Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)