The 32 greatest '50s movie characters

EntertainmentMoviesThe 32 greatest ’50s movie charactersWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. EntertainmentMoviesThe 32 greatest ’50s movie charactersWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Universal Pictures) Even during the parochial Hays Code and Hollywood blacklisting over supposed alleged communist connections, cinema brimmed with multi-dimensional onscreen characters all throughout the 1950s. But which of them are actually the greatest of all time? From shady noir figures to B-movie monsters to aging Western gunslingers to misfit children, these are the characters who defined movies in the 1950s. 32. Nancy Archer (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman) (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) 31. Minoru and Isamu (Good Morning) (Image credit: Shochiku) 30. Bruno Antony (Strangers on a Train) (Image credit: Warner Bros.) You never really know who you might meet on a train. In Alfred Hitchcock’s lethal film noir Strangers on a Train, Robert Walker plays the snake-like Bruno Antony, a smooth-talking stranger who proposes to a passenger, Guy Haines (Farley Granger) they carry out each other’s dream murder, with the lack of any traceable connection creating the perfect crime. That Bruno honors the “agreement” and relentlessly pursues Guy to carry his end of a deal they never actually made makes Bruno one of the most spine-chilling characters in Hitchock’s film canon, a villain who comes from out of the shadows wearing nothing but a smile. 29. Ethan Edwards (The Searchers) (Image credit: Warner Bros.) Sign up for the Total Film Newsletter Bringing all the latest movie news, features, and reviews to your inbox 28. Mad Hatter (Alice in Wonderland) (Image credit: Disney) 27. The Blob (The Blob) (Image credit: Paramount Pictures) It, whatever it is, is unstoppable. It swallows and absorbs all organic matter, and it’s coming for you. In The Blob, a mysterious and gooey substance of alien origin overruns a small town. Hardly a “character” in the conventional sense, the Blob is a malicious entity that can be as simple or as complicated to viewers as they want it to be. One might see nothing more than a hunk of gelatin. Others see an elaborate metaphor of creeping existential terrors of the day, be it the threat of communism or the cultural rot of Americana coming from within. Whatever The Blob means to you, there’s no stopping its creeping power as one of the coolest movie monsters ever. 26. Detective Joe Kojaku (The Crimson Kimono) (Image credit: Columbia Pictures) 25. Colonel Dax (Paths of Glory) (Image credit: United Artists) Before he made transgressive masterpieces like Lolita, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Shining, Stanley Kubrick directed the 1957 anti-war movie Paths of Glory. Kirk Douglas stars as the principled Colonel Dax, a man in charge of French officers who refuse to continue a suicidal mission and whom he defends in court-martial. While Douglas in Paths of Glorylookslike a quintessential jarhead, his efforts to ensure his mens’ names aren’t sullied because of supposed cowardice is to see what bravery in action looks like. 24. Juliette Hardy (And God Created Woman) (Image credit: Cocinor) Brigitte Bardot was a model before she became an actress in 1952, and she shot to fame through her starring role in Roger Vadim’s sensual hit drama And God Created Woman. Bardot plays a French orphan and nymphet who creates a mess in her personal life when she marries one man but falls in love with his brother. (You can imagine what problems play out from there.) And God Created Woman features Bardot’s finest and most memorable role of her career, and for good reason, with Juliette typifying her renowned sex appeal that pretty much coined the terms “sex kitten.” 23. Gill-man (Creature From the Black Lagoon) (Image credit: Universal Pictures) The Swamp Thing and Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water all owe a debt to the fearsome Gill-man, whose first appearance in the 1954 classic Creature From the Black Lagoon helped usher in the end for the Universal Classic Monsters. A silent amphibian of unknown origin who stalks the beautiful Julia Adams (as Kay Lawrence) in the Amazon, the “Gill-man” lacks defining characteristics beyond what he obviously is. But that doesn’t make him uninteresting. Rather, the Gill-man is the perfect creature to which we can project onto him our darker egos – the ones that never swim to the surface but instead dwell in the depths. 22. Private “Prew” Prewitt (From Here to Eternity) (Image credit: Columbia Pictures) He can play a mean bugle, but good luck getting him to box. In Fred Zinnemann’s sprawling World War II drama From Here to Eternity, Montgomery Clift stars as the handsome and haunted Private “Prew” Prewitt. A career soldier who wants nothing else than to serve with dignity, Prew winds up the whipping boy of his captain who resents Prew’s refusal to compete in his boxing team. All the while, Prew falls in love with Lorene (Donna Reed), a nightclub girl seeking to build a more stable life back home. Through Clift’s multi-dimensional performance, Prew feels alive in his existence as an unlucky soul caught up in a turbulent time. 21. Calamity Jane (Calamity Jane) (Image credit: Warner Bros.) 20. Death (The Seventh Seal) (Image credit: SF Studios) 19. Harry Fabian (Night and the City) (Image credit: 20th Century Studios) 18. Joe Bradley and Princess Ann (Roman Holiday) (Image credit: Paramount Pictures) Co-starring in William Wyler’s effervescent rom-com Roman Holiday are Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, as two people from two different worlds who sweep each other off their feet, if only for an afternoon. When a European princess (Hepburn) ends up in the apartment of an American reporter (Peck), the two embark on a whirlwind adventure up and down the ancient city of Rome, relishing every minute to remember for their lifetimes. As characters, Joe and Princess Ann reveal how easy it looks, and feels, to fall in love when you’re not really trying. 17. Kanji Watanabe (Ikiru) (Image credit: Toho) Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (in English, meaning “to life”) doesn’t directly grapple with the fallout of Japan’s survival of atomic weaponry. But the specter of death looms over elderly salaryman Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura in a career performance), whose discovery of terminal stomach cancer inspires a restless search for meaning in an increasingly complicated and overly-bureaucratic world. A most empathetic portrait of people at the end of their lives, Kanji in Ikiru shows that even those with little to live for can still want and deserve to live it to the fullest, and to leave behind something worthwhile. They only hope to do it all before it’s too late. (Image credit: MGM) 15. Sinbad (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad) (Image credit: Columbia Pictures) The ultimate swashbuckler of cinema, Kerwin Mathews’ Sinbad in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is the epitome of dashing silver screen heroism that not even comic book superheroes can match up to. While the folklore of Sinbad spread for centuries before the advent of cinema (and in fact there were already Sinbad movies before the classic 7th Voyage), it was Mathews’ interpretation of the legendary hero that permanently cemented Sinbad’s recognition as an all-time great. Whether he’s outrunning cyclops giants or staring down half-snake handmaidens, Sinbad isn’t a complicated hero – and that’s why he’s still so alluring after so many years. 14. Norma Desmond (Sunset Boulevard) (Image credit: Paramount Pictures) She’s here for you, all you wonderful people in the dark. In Billy Wilder’s black comedy noir Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson plays Norma Desmond, a silent movie star who manipulates a down-on-his-luck screenwriter to revitalize her career. As Hollywood’s golden age came upon its final decade, Wilder’s movie allowed Hollywood itself to wrestle with the ways it builds people up only to crush them to smithereens. Swanson’s Norma Desmond is a terrifyingly tragic figure who represents the industry’s forgotten souls, a person unable to let go of the past and insist on living in the limelight forever. The end of the movie includes her most disturbing portrait, strutting to the foreground to bask in the glow of camera flashes while refusing to even acknowledge the reason they’re there in the first place. 13. Godzilla (Gojira) (Image credit: Toho) While careless audiences dismiss Godzilla as little more than a big rubber lizard, real ones know to revere the King of the Monsters. Emerging from the radiated seas of Japan in Ishiro Honda’s kaiju masterpiece Gojira, Godzilla is a nightmare of manmade science and nature, a creature born from nuclear radiation who rises to the surface to warn mankind of its arrogance and bad habits of self-annihilation. No matter what tones or shades he’s taken on in his multi-decade lifespan, his first appearance in the 1954 original feature is still the one that leaves a lasting impression like burned skin. 12. Will Kane (High Noon) (Image credit: United Artists) 11. Antoine Doinel (The 400 Blows) (Image credit: Cocinor) 10. Captain Hook (Peter Pan) (Image credit: Disney) 9. Taketori Washizu (Throne of Blood) (Image credit: Toho) Toshiro Mifune’s plentiful roles in so many classic samurai movies make him synonymous with the genre, and the 1950s are especially teeming with his masculine aggression. Of all of his roles in the decade, one still reigns supreme: Taketori Washizu in Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa’s masterful retelling of Shakespeare’s play Macbeth set in feudal Japan. As Taketori/Macbeth, Mifune perfectly embodies the red-hot determination of an ambitious samurai, which builds to his short-tempered arrogance when Taketori has finally seized control only to lose it all in a hailstorm of arrows. Mifune has indeed played so many samurai. But the one that closely resembles the mythic Shakespeare anti-hero is the one that deserves utmost recognition. 8. Jim Stark (Rebel Without a Cause) (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) That audiences met Jim Stark only a month after James Dean’s death has imbued indeterminable romantic depth to one of his final feature film roles. In Rebel Without a Cause, Dean shines so blindingly bright as troubled teenager Jim Stark, a California hot-rodder caught up in an unhappy home and strikes up a relationship with equally-distressed Judy (Natalie Wood). Between Jim’s iconic look (including an enviable red jacket) and overall vibe as a walking Bruce Springsteen song, he’s simply one of the most unforgettable faces of the decade. 7. Juror 8 (12 Angry Men) (Image credit: United Artists) 6. Judy/Madeline (Vertigo) (Image credit: Paramount Pictures) 5. Shane (Shane) (Image credit: Paramount Pictures) 4. Judah Ben-Hur (Ben-Hur) (Image credit: MGM) 3. Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty) (Image credit: Disney) 2. Jeffries (Rear Window) (Image credit: Paramount Pictures) 1. Terry Malloy (On the Waterfront) (Image credit: Columbia Pictures) It’s considered one of the greatest movies for a reason, and so much of it is because of Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy. In Eliza Kazan’s On the Waterfront, a movie exploring crime and corruption on the Hoboken waterfronts (in an elaborate parallel to Communist political blacklisting), Brando’s Terry is an ex-prizefighter and longshoreman who is unwittingly lured into the murder of a coworker. Throughout the movie, Terry regrets his lot in life, believing his own potential has been wasted; he coulda been a “contendah,” as he puts it. Due in large part to an acting maestro in Brando, Terry is a timeless figure of regret, of coming to terms with where and who you are isn’t where and who you want to be. 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