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Article: FEATURE FILMS, 1950-1959: A UNITED STATES FILMOGRAPHY.(Review)
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- Journal of Popular Film & Television
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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Alan G. Fetrow. Jefferson: McFarland, 1998. 712 pp. $72.50 cloth.
Documenting 3,075 films released or copyrighted between 1950 and 1959, this third volume in Alan Fetrow's U.S. filmography series follows Sound Films, 1927-1939 (1992) and Feature Films, 1940-1949(1994). Fetrow casts a wide net in this compact, one-volume filmography--catching everything from A Place in the Sun to Glen or Glenda and seemingly everything in between--but it can be a shallow catch given the omission of crucial production personnel for many films.
The 1950s filmography adheres to the format of Fetrow's earlier volumes: Entries are alphabetically arranged and sequentially ...