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1950s |
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| Great Film Tagline: | Film Title: |
| "It's all about women...and their men!" |  All About Eve (1950) |
| "The City Under the City" | The Asphalt Jungle (1950) |
| "The Bride gets the THRILLS! Father gets the BILLS!" | Father of the Bride (1950) |
| "THRILL CRAZY... KILL CRAZY..." | Gun Crazy (1950) |
| "The Bogart suspense picture with the surprise finish - " | In a Lonely Place (1950) |
| "A Hollywood Story." | Sunset Boulevard (1950) |
| "The greatest adventure a man ever lived...with a woman!" | The African Queen (1951) |
| "What A Joy To See M·G·M's Technicolor Musical!" | An American In Paris (1951) |
| "From Out of Space... A Warning and An Ultimatum." | The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) |
| "I'm in trouble, George... bad trouble." | A Place in the Sun (1951) |
| "It begins with the shriek of a train whistle and ends with shrieking excitement! Young America's idol - a good looking stranger in search of sensation - and a girl in love. These are the people around whom Alfred Hitchcock spins his wonderful new web of suspense and surprise. WARNER BROS. bring a pounding new tempo to motion picture entertainment." | Strangers on a Train (1951) |
| "The story of a blonde who wanted to go places, and a brute who got her there - the hard way!" | The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) |
| "The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer against a background of circus spectacle." | The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) |
| "The story of a man who was too proud to run." | High Noon (1952) |
| "What a Glorious Feeling" -- "MGM's Technicolor Musical Treasure!" | Singin' in the Rain (1952) |
| "A hard cop and a soft dame!" | The Big Heat (1953) |
| "The boldest book of our time... Honestly, fearlessly on the screen!" | From Here to Eternity (1953) |
| "I changed my sex!" | Glen or Glenda? (1953) |
| "You've never been scared until you've been scared in 3-D." | House of Wax (1953) |
| "Crushed lips don't talk..." | I Confess (1953) |
| "a raging torrent of emotion that even nature can't control" | Niagara (1953) |
| "Audrey Hepburn at her Oscar-winning best in an immortal comedy-romance!" | Roman Holiday (1953) |
| "The most UNUSUAL and INTIMATE journey into human emotions ever filmed!!!" | Rear Window (1954) |
| "...the chauffeur's daughter who learned her stuff in Paris!" | Sabrina (1954) |
| "Blood red kisses! White hot thrills! Mickey Spillane's latest H-bomb!" | Kiss Me Deadly (1955) |
| "It's the love story of an unsung hero!" | Marty (1955) |
| "The wedding night, the anticipation, the kiss, the knife, BUT ABOVE ALL...THE SUSPENSE!" | The Night of the Hunter (1955) |
| "Jim Stark - a kid from a 'good' family - what makes him tick...like a bomb?" | Rebel Without a Cause (1955) |
| "Incredible! Invisible! Insatiable!" | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) |
| "he had to find her...he had to find her." | The Searchers (1956) |
| "The Greatest Event in Motion Picture History" | The Ten Commandments (1956) |
| "The story of a family's ugly secret and the stark moment that thrust their private lives into public view!" | Written on the Wind (1956) |
| "Life Is In Their Hands -- Death Is On Their Minds!" | 12 Angry Men (1957) |
| "It spans a whole new world of entertainment!" | The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) |
| "BOMBSHELL! the roll of the drums... the click of the rifle-bolts... the last cigarette... and then... the shattering impact of this story... perhaps the most explosive motion picture in 25 years!" | Paths of Glory (1957) |
| "This is the story of J.J. - But not the way he wants it told!" | Sweet Smell of Success (1957) |
| "Once in 50 years suspense like this!" | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) |
| "The night the unsinkable sank." | A Night to Remember (1958) |
| "THE STRANGEST VENGEANCE EVER PLANNED!" | Touch of Evil (1958) |
| "Alfred Hitchcock engulfs you in a whirlpool of terror and tension!" | Vertigo (1958) |
| "The Entertainment Experience of a Lifetime!" | Ben-Hur (1959) |
| "It's a deadly game
of 'tag' and Cary Grant is 'it'!" AND "It's love and murder at first sight!" |
North by Northwest (1959) |
| "Unspeakable Horrors From Outer Space Paralyze the Living and Resurrect The Dead!" | Planet 9 From Outer Space (1959) |
| "The movie too HOT for words!" | Some Like It Hot (1959) |
