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I wouldn't normally cover this kind of sub-category but GershwinFan mentioned seeing it and it has a curious 2.5 imdb rating. I watched a bit of it on youtube and thought it extremely ****ed-up! Winner of the 1959 San Francisco International Film Festival Best International Family Film was …
Santa Claus (1959) Rene Cardona, Mexico
In Mexiscope no less!
Oddly enough, I think I've seen this. Remember when small towns used to have movie theaters? And remember when those theaters had Saturday matinees? Well I may have seen this as a child.
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I personally think Goldfinger is more a series of brilliant images--Bond getting out of his wetsuit to reveal he's perfectly clad in a three piece suit, Shirley Eaton covered in gold paint, Oddjob using his hat, Bond bound to a table while a laser plans to bisect him, Oddjob being electrocuted--than a really first rate movie. (Having Goldfinger drag Bond across the Atlantic Ocean to where his plan is going to be is where the movie really lost it for me.) By contrast Skyfall, the last Bond film I've seen, actually has real weight. For once the deaths mean something, the villain has a creditable motive, and Moneypenny has something useful to do.
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It appears that after the no longer extant The Way of All Flesh, the first Best Actor winners not to appear on TCM are Wall Street and Scent of a Woman.
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theyshootpictures.com top 1000 movies for 1959
The 400 Blows Francois Truffaut, France #25
Pickpocket Robert Bresson, France #81
Hiroshima Mon Amour Alain Resnais, France #112
The World of Apu Satyajit Ray, India #288
The Virgin Spring Ingmar Bergman, Sweden #726
Kaagaz Ke Phool Guru Dutt, India #727
Black Orpheus Marcel Camus, Brazil #849
India: Matri Bhumi Roberto Rossellini, Italy #941
Floating Weeds Yasujiro Ozu, Japan #944
The Indian Tomb Fritz Lang, West Germany #984
Jonathan Rosenbaum's top 1000 movies 1959
L'avventura Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy
*Breathless Jean-Luc Godard, France
The 400 Blows Francois Truffaut, France
Good Morning Yasujiro Ozu, Japan
*Hiroshima Mon Amour Alain Resnais, France
The Magician Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
Nazarin Luis Bunuel, Spain
Pickpocket Robert Bresson, France
Purple Noon Rene Clement, France
La testament d'Orphee Jean Cocteau, France
*The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb Fritz Lang, West GermanyAn asterisk (*) means the movie is one of Rosenbaum's top 100 movies. Dates are not exact for either category.
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I saw three movies last week. Le Petit Soldat is perhaps the least known of Godard's first run (1960-1967). One reason, aside from the fact that censorship delayed its release for several years, was that its structure was very similar to Breathless. In both movies a conventional B-Movie plot, a criminal on the run in Breathless, a man facing two sides in an espionage plot, is interrupted by intellectual conversations with his love interest. So, not the step forward his other movies would show.
The Sand Pebbles is one of the oddest of sixties Hollywood would-be blockbusters, and not in a good way. On the one hand, the surprisingly downbeat ending suggest that American running around in 1920s China is a brutal, futile gesture. On the other hand, there is little serious attempt to actually understand Chinese objections to Western presence. Of the two Chinese characters, one can barely speak English, while the other only talks in pidgin English. And the violent Chinese kill both those two and the Westerner most sympathetic to their cause. Aside from a first half that takes an inordinate amount of time to get started, the love interests for both McQueen and Attenborough are only cursory. If one waits for the second half one does get to see McQueen do something more, though no one would think this was the one performance of his that deserved an oscar nomination.
I, Tonya is shallow, and best enjoyed if you don't think too much about it. Alison Janney is certainly striking as a psychotic gargoyle. It suffers, like The Florida Project, from thinking that unsociable or wildly irresponsible behavior is either typically working class or white trash. This reflects the director's unconvincing combination of sympathy and condescension. Also, it's a bit hard to be irritated by the snobbishness of American figure skating or the shallowness of the media, when Harding's mother and husband are so much worse. The movie takes a lot from Goodfellas, not always successfully. (For one thing, the music selection is off. One would think one would use "The Chain" for a relationship considerably less dysfunctional than the one here.)
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1. The World of Apu Satyajit Ray, India
2. The 400 Blows Francois Truffaut, France
3. Pickpocket Robert Bresson, France
4. Hiroshima Mon Amour Alain Resnais, France
5. India Roberto Rossellini, Italy
6. Moi, Un Noir Jean Rouch, France
7. Ballad of a Soldier Grigori Chukhrai, Soviet Union
8. The Letter Never Sent Mikhali Kalatozov, Soviet Union
9. The Tiger of Eschnapur Fritz Lang, West Germany
10. Black Orpheus Marcel Camus, Brazil/France/Italy
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Manhattan: keep Mariel Hemingway
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theyshootpictures.com top 1000 for 1958
Ashes and Diamonds Andrzej Wajda, Poland #221
The Music Room Satyajit Ray, India #285
Mon Oncle Jaques Tati, France #421
Nazarin Luis Bunuel, Spain #578
The Tiger of Eschnapur Fritz Lang, Germany #643
Big Deal on Madonna Street Mario Monicelli #792
Moi, Un Noir Jean Rouch, France #927
Cairo Station Youssef Cahine, Egypt #958
Jonathan Rosenbaum top 1000 movies for 1958 (An asterisk means the movie is one of Rosenbaum's top 100 movies)
Ajantrik (Pathetic Fallacy) Ritwik Ghatak, India
Ashes and Diamonds Andrzej Wajda, Poland
*India Roberto Rossellini, Italy
Mon oncle Jacques Tati, France
Une simple histoire Marcel Hanoun, FranceNote that dates are not exact for either
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Applause, one of the first Hollywood sound films, directed by Rouben Mamoulian has apparently never been shown. Peter Ibbetson, contra Karlofffan, has not appeared on TCM, at least not according to moviecollector.us
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OK, we know that TCM is much less likely to show a film if (a) it was made after 1979, or even 1965 (b) if it's foreign (c) if it's avant-garde or experimental (d) if it's overly long (e) if it has excessive sexual content (f) if it's a Disney animated feature and (g) if it's The Sound of Music. So there are still perfectly respectable Hollywood movies from 1928 to 1965 which still exist and which TCM has never shown, no doubt because of rights issue. With that in mind, what are those respectable Hollywood movies from 1928 to 1965 which TCM has never shown. Peter Ibbetson and Damn Yankees come to mind first for me. What else is there?
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On 6/14/2018 at 4:18 PM, skimpole said:
Here are the movies from theyshootpictures.com top 500 that have never been on TCM:
#335 El (1952, Bunuel)
#337 The Green Ray (1986, Rohmer)
#339 Lost Highway (1997, Lynch)
The Green Ray will be showing in October.
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I saw three movies. Revolution was a notorious fiasco that destroyed the reputation Hugh Hudson won for Chariots of Fire. Actually seeing this movie suggests this was a fate well deserved. The editing and the imagery is poor and choppy, the larger point of view muddled and poorly thought out. It's clear that Hudson doesn't know that much about the revolution so his opinion about it has little value. Although people at the time marked Al Pacino's accent and how he didn't sound like any of the other characters, one more even glaring problem is the relationship between Pacino and Natassja Kinski. There's supposed to be a romantic relationship between them and supposedly the studio insisted on a happy ending that doesn't remotely work. But given the fact of differences in not only age and class, but also the fact the two have dramatically different opinions of the revolution, and even more so the fact that they don't really interact very much, makes even less sense.
Khrustalyov my Car, by contrast, is the best movie I've seen in several years. Brilliantly, beautifully shot with a unique, cluttered and foreboding misc-en-scene, this film details the life of a powerful Soviet army doctor who faces arrest as part of the Doctor's plot just before Stalin's death. It certainly feels very Russian in its strangeness. One can see The Confession to imagine what it was like to be falsely arrested and made to confess to crimes you didn't commit. But this shows a certain kind of madness over and above that. Kedi is a documentary about the not exactly wild cats of Istanbul that the residents allow to walk around. One can enjoy it if you are a cat person. I like cats, or more precisely, I like the idea of cats.
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1. Ivan the Terrible Part II Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union
2. The Music Room Satyajit Ray, India
3. Mon Oncle Jacques Tati, France
4. The Hidden Fortress Akira Kursoawa, Japan
5. Ashes and Diamonds Andrzej Wajda, Poland
6. Elevator to the Gallows Louis Malle, France
7. The Magician Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
8. Equinox Flower Yasujiro Ozu, Japan
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It is now 1955. Here is Best Adapted Screenplay
Carl Thedor Dreyer, Ordet, based on the play of the same name by Kaj Munk
Satyaji Ray, Pather Panchali, based on the novel of the same name by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
James Agee, The Night of the Hunter, based on the novel of the same name by Davis Grubb
Auguste le Breton, Jules Dassin, Rene Wheeler, Riffi, based on the novel of the same name by Auguste le Breton
Philip Yordan, Frank Burt, The Man from Laramie, based on the serial of the same name by Thomas T. Flynn
And here is Best Original Screenplay
Ingmar Bergman, Smiles of a Summer Night
Betty Comden, Adolph Green, It's Always Fair Weather
Stewart Stem, Rebel Without a Cause
William Rose, The Ladykillers
Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Ralph Wright, Don DaGradi, Lady and the Tramp
I have not seen The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell, The Seven Little Foys (original), The Private War of Major Benson, The Sheep Has Five Legs, Strategic Air Command (story). Mr. Hulot's Holiday was nominated two years earlier. This was not a good year for Original Screenplay: Bergman was a good choice, but trying to fill up the whole five...
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theyshootpictures.com movies for 1957
Wild Strawberries Ingmar Bergman, Sweden #56
The Seventh Seal Ingmar Bergman, Sweden #71
Nights of Cabiria Federico Fellini, Italy #200
Throne of Blood Akira Kurosawa, Japan #268
Pyassa Guru Dutt, India #440
The Cranes are Flying Mikhali Kalatozov Soviet Union #476
Il Grido Michelangelo Antonioni Italy #777
Mother India Mehboob Kan #869
Jonathan Rosenbaum top 1000 movies for 1957
La Cada del Angel Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentina
Kiss Yasuzo Masumura, Japan
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Continuing on with Jonathan Rosenbaum's top 1000 movies up to 2003:
1941
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family Yasujiro Ozu, Japan
1942
The 47 Ronin Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan1943
La ciel est a vous Jean Gremillon, France
*Day of Wrath Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark1944
Les enfants du paradis Marcel Carne, France
The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks Edgar Neville, Spain1944-1946
*Ivan the Terrible, Parts 1 and 2 Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union
1945
Les dames du bois de Boulogne Robert Bresson, France1946
La belle et la bete Jean Cocteau, France
Five Women around Utamaro Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan
Paisa Roberto Rossellini, Italy
Sciuscia (Shoeshine) Vittori De Sica, Italy1947
Germany Year Zero Roberto Rossellini, Italy
Quai des Orfevres Henri-Georges Clouzot, France
1948
The Bicycle Thief Vittorio De Sica, Italy
A Hen in the Wind Yasujiro Ozu, Japan
*Spring in a Small City Fei Mu, China
La terra trema Luchino Visconti, Italy
1949
Les enfants terribles Jean-Pierre Melville, france
Jour de fete Jacques Tati, France
Late Spring Yasujiro Ozu, Japan
Stromboli Roberto Rossellini, Italy1950
Los olivdados Luis Bunuel, Mexico
Orphee Jean Cocteau, France1951
Bellissima Luchino Visconti, Italy
The White Sheik Federico Fellini, Italy1952
Europa 51 Roberto Rossellini, Italy
Ikiru Akira Kurosawa, Japan
The Life of Oharu Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan
Madame de... Max Ophuls, France
Umberto D Vittorio De Sica, Japan
Venom and Eternity Jean-Isadore Isou, France1953
The Golden Coach Jean Renoir, France
Tokyo Story Yasujiro Ozu, Japan
Ugetsu Monogatari Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan1954
Chikamatsu monogatari (The Crucified Lovers) Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan
Mr. Hulot's Holiday Jacques Tati, France
*The Saga of Anatahan Josef von Sternberg, Japan
*Sansho the Bailiff Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan
Senso Luchino Visconti, Italy
The Wages of Fear Henri-Georges Clouzot, France1955
The Lady Without Camelias Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy
Lola Montes Max Ophuls, France
*Ordet Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark
Sawdust and Tinsel Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
Shin heike monogatari (New Tales of the Taira Clan) Kenji Mizoguchi, Frane
1956
Aparajito Satyajit Ray, India
Elena et les homes Jean Renoir, France*A Man Escaped, Robert Bresson, France
Movies marked with an asterisk (*) are on Rosenbaum's top 100 movies.
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Continuing on with Jonathan Rosenbaum's top 1000 movies up to 2003:
1931
La chienne Jean Renoir, France
Enthusiasm Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union
*M Fritz Lang, Germany
*La nuit du carrefour Jean Renoir, France
1932Boudu sauve des eaux Jean Renoir, France
*Ivan Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet Union
*I Was Born But Yasujiro Ozu, Japan
Marie, legende hongrois Paul Fejos, France-Hungary
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Fritz Lang, Germany
Vampyr Carl Theodor Dreyer, France-Germany
Zero de conduite Jean Vigo, France1933
Deserter Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet Union
The Great Consoler Lev Kuleshov, Soviet Union
Passing Fancy Yasujiro Ozu, Japan
1934
Angele Marcel Pagnol, France
L'atalante Jean Vigo, France
La signora di tutti Max Ophuls, Italy
Toni Jean Renoir, France
1935
Aerograd / Frontier Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet Union
Le crime de Monsieur Lange Jean Renoir, France
1936
The Only Son Yasujiro Ozu, Japan
Slussakkord (Final Accord) Douglas Sirk, Germany
1937
La grande illusion Jean Renoir, France
Les perles de la couronne Sacha Guitry, France
1938
Alexander Nevsky Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union
La bete humaine Jean Renoir, France
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky Mark Donskoi, Soviet Union
Olympia Leni Riefenshahl, Germany
1939
L'espoir Andre Malraux, France-Spain
*La regle du jeu Jean Renoir, France
*Story of Late Chrysanthemums Kenji Mizoguchi, JapanMovies marked with an asterisk (*) are on Rosenbaum's top 100 movies.
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Continuing on with Jonathan Rosenbaum's list of his 1000 favorite movies up to 2003
1925
Master of the House Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark
Metropolis Fritz Lang, Germany
Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union
Tartuffe F.W. Murnau. Germany1926
Dura lex (By the Law) Lev Kuleshov, Soviet Union
Faust F.W. Murnau, Germany
Mother Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet Union
A Page of Madness / A Crazy Page Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan1927
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie Rene Clair, France
October Sergei Eisenstein. Soviet Union1928
L'argent Marcel L'Herbier, France
Le chute de la maison Usher Jean Epstein, France
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer, France
*Spione Fritz Lang, Germany
1929
*Arsenal Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet Union
The General Line Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union
The Man with a Movie Camera Dziga Vertov. Soviet Union
The New Babylon Grigori Kozinstev / Leonid Trauberg, Soviet Union1930
L'age d'Or Luis Bunuel, France
The Blue Angel Josef von Sternberg, Germany
Earth Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet Union
Sous les toits de Paris Rene Clair, France
That Night's Wife Yasujiro Ozu, JapanAn asterisk (*) means the movie is one of Rosenbaum's top 100.
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I saw three movies last week. Anthony Adverse was a pleasant surprise. Thirties extravaganzas based on long forgotten novels have historically not been a promising genre. And Frederic March has never been one of my favorite actors. But there's a power of in its sweep, as the movie moves from France to Italy, then across the Atlantic then to Africa. It has so much, such as Claude Rains being cuckolded and revenging himself in the first twenty minutes before the title character is even born, Gale Sondergaard in a juicy and brief role, one of the few pre-Civil Rights Acts film sequences of a slave market (in this case in Africa). I'm Gonna Get you Sucker! is a late eighties parody of blaxploitation films. As such it is mildly amusing, thought not the most inventive or outrageous of the eighties genre. Happy End takes some time for its portrait of bourgeois malice and coldness to come into focus. Like his previous movie it uses Jean-Louis Trintignant to serve as propaganda for euthanasia. He's good, his grand-daughter's malice is somewhat contrived, the movie has an elliptical style, and Isabelle Huppert doesn't really come into her own until near the end when she shows her son not to mess with her.
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1. The Seventh Seal Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
2. Throne of Blood Akira Kurosawa, Japan
3. Wild Strawberries Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
4. Nights of Cabiria Federico Fellini, Italy
5. Letter from Siberia Chris Marker, France
6. The Snow Queen Lev Atamanov, Nikolay Fyodorov, Soviet Union
7. White Nights Luchino Visconti, Italy
8. Tokyo Twilight Yasujiro Ozu, Japan
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Jonathan Rosenbaum in his book Essential Cinema made a list of his thousand favorite film (which includes short films) up to and including 2003.
Here's the first of them. I should point out the dating may be a bit capricious
1913-1914
Les Fantomas Louis Feuillade, France
1914
L'Enfant de Paris Leonce Perret, France
1915-1916
*Les Vampires Louis Feuillade, France
1916-1918
Judex Louis Feuillade, France
1918
*Tih Minh Louis Feuillade, France
1919
Barabbas Louis Feuillade, France
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Robert Weine, Germany
The Oyster Princess Ernst Lubitsch, Germany
1920
The Parson's Widow Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark
The Doll Ernst Lubitsch, Germany
1921
Destiny Fritz Lang, Germany
1922
Dr. Mabuse Fritz Lang, Germany
Nosferatu F.W. Murnau, Germany
Raskolnikov Robert Weine, Germany
1924
L'Inhumaine Marcel L'Herbier, France
The Last Laugh F.W. Murnau, Germany
Michael Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark
*Die Niebelungen Fritz Lang, Germany
Strike Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union
An asterisk (*) means that the movie is one of Rosenbaum's top 100 movies.
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It is now 1954. Here is Best Original Screenplay
Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Seven Samurai
Vitaliano Brancati, Roberto Rossellini, Journey to Italy
Joseph Mankiewicz, The Barefoot Contessa
Jean Renoir, Andre-Paul Antoine, French Cancan
Budd Schulberg, On the WaterfrontAnd here is Best Adapted Screenplay
Fuji Yoharo, Yoshikata Yoda, Sansho the Bailiff, based on the story of the same name by Mori Ogai
Moss Hart, A Star is Born, based on the 1937 movie of the same name
Frederick Knott, Dial M for Murder, based on his play of the same name
John Michael Hayes, Rear Window, based on the story "It Had to be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich
Philip Yordan [Ben Maddow], Johnny Guitar, based on the novel of the same name by Roy Chanslor
I have not seen Genevieve, Knock on Wood (original), Broken Lance, Bread, Love and Dreams, Night People, There's no Business like Show Business (story) Forbidden Games was nominated back in 1952. -
Now it's 1953. Here is best original screenplay:
Betty Comden, Adolph Green, The Band Wagon
Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet, Mr. Hulot's Holiday
Dr. Seuss, Alla Scott, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis Garcia Berlanga, Miguel Mihura, Bienvenido Mr. Marshall!
Sam Rolfe, Harold Jack Bloom, The Naked Spur
And here is best adapted screenplay:
Marcel Achard, Max Ophuls, Annette Wademant, The Earrings of Madame De, based on the novel Madame De by Louise de Vilmorin
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jerome Geronomi, The Wages of Fear, based on the novel of the same name by Georges Arnaud
Charles Lederer, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, based on the musical of the same name by Anita Loos and Joseph Fields
Koga Noda, Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Story, based on the movie Make Way for Tomorrow
Matsutaro Kawaguchi, Yoshikta Yoda, Ugetsu Monogotari based on the collection of short stories with the same name by Ueda Akinari
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theyshootpictures.com movies for 1956
A Man Escaped Robert Bresson, France #89
Aparajito Satyajit Ray, India #563
Street of Shame Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan #828
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Here is 1956. First, Best Adapted Screenplay:
Robert Bresson, A Man Escaped based on the memoir A Man Condemned to Death Has Escaped by Andre Devigny
James Poe, John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, Around the World in 80 Days based on the novel by Jules Verne
Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson, The Killing based on the novel Clean Break by Lionel White
Satyaji Ray, Aparajito, based on the novel of the same name and Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Frank S. Nugent, The Searchers, based on the novel of the same name by Alan Le May
And here is Best Original Screenplay:
Albert Lamorisse, The Red Balloon
Jean-Pierre Melville, Bob le Flambeur
Gene Kelly, Invitation to the Dance
Jean Serge, Jean Renoir, Elena and Her Men
Koga Noda, Yasujiro Ozu, Early Spring
I have not seen The Bold and the Brave, Julie (original), The Brave One, The Proud and the Beautiful or High Society (story). High Society, incidentally is not the Grace Kelly/Bing Crosby musical but a Bowery Boys film that was confused with it by the nominators and which withdrew itself from consideration. Umberto D and The Ladykillers were nominated in previous years. This, incidentally, is the last year that there was a separate award for Best Story.