May: Classic 50s Movie Month (Update)

In December 2013, we had a series called Classic 80s Movies Month in which I invited readers to select noteworthy movies from the decade of the eighties and provide a condensed overview of it. That resulted in this: A list of links to movies you should know about. Then in May 2014, we did the same thing for 90s movies. Here is a link to that archive.

Those series went so well, I thought why not do this for more decades? Over time, we will aggregate a decade by decade resource I can point people to who know they need to watch movies, but might not have an idea which ones.

So last September, we did the 70s. You can check out those archived posts here. In January, we did the 60s which you can check out here.

Let’s make May 50s Movies Month.

I’m looking for 21 volunteers to write guest posts to go live Monday through Friday in May, each entry featuring a 50s movie you think screenwriters should know about and hopefully at some point watch. If more people volunteer, then we can expand the series into 31 posts.

Here is a template you can use for your guest post:

Movie Title

Year

Writers (screenwriters and any authors whose books were used as the basis for adaptation)

Lead Actors (Just the main ones)

Director

IMDb Plot Summary (You can find that directly under the Your Rating box. If you don’t feel the summary does the story justice, feel free to write up a logline of your own.)

Why I Think This Is A Classic 70s Movie (Feel free to write as much as you’d like up to a half-page or so.)

My Favorite Moment In The Movie

My Favorite Dialogue In the Movie (IMDB has a Quotes section for almost every movie, so you can find key dialogue in your movie’s site.)

Key Things You Should Look For When Watching This Movie

Please use this exact template to help me in the editing process.

If you need to look at some examples of previous posts, go here, here, here, or here and click on any link.

If you can find a YouTube clip from the film or its trailer, please include that URL.

When you are done with your guest post, you may simply copy and paste the content into an email to me or create a Word document and attach it to an email.

I will run the posts in the order I receive them.

If you are interested in doing a guest post, please indicate in Comments or send me an email with the movie you would like to cover.

Here is an updated list of 10 fine folks who have already volunteered [those italicized have already sent me their posts]:

A Place in the Sun — Zach Jansen
All About Eve — Ricardo Bravo
High Noon — Jeff Messerman
Kiss Me Deadly — jhenderson
Night of the Hunter — Mark Twain
On the Waterfront — Bilbo Poynter
Rear Window — Roy Gordon
Rebel Without a Cause — uncgym44
Seven Samurai, The — PaulG
Some Like It Hot — Will King

Looking for more volunteers. Click REPLY, see you in comments, and thanks!

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