# List of Universal Pictures films (1950–1959)

This is a list of films produced or distributed by Universal Pictures in 1950–1959, founded in 1912 as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It is the main motion picture production and distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of the NBCUniversal division of Comcast.

## 1950

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 5, 1950 | Sons of Matthew | U.S. distribution only as The Rugged O'Riordans; co-production with the Greater Union Organisation |
| January 6, 1950 | Woman in Hiding | |
| February 8, 1950 | Francis | |
| February 8, 1950 | Outside the Wall | |
| February 14, 1950 | The Astonished Heart | U.S. distribution |
| March 1, 1950 | The Kid from Texas | |
| March 1, 1950 | Buccaneer's Girl | |
| March 1, 1950 | Borderline | distribution only; produced by Milton H. Bren and William A. Seiter Productions and Borderline Pictures Corporation |
| April 1, 1950 | One Way Street | |
| April 1, 1950 | Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town | |
| May 1, 1950 | Comanche Territory | |
| May 13, 1950 | I Was a Shoplifter | |
| May 25, 1950 | Curtain Call at Cactus Creek | |
| May 31, 1950 | Louisa | |
| June 1, 1950 | Sierra | |
| June 8, 1950 | Spy Hunt | |
| June 8, 1950 | The Rocking Horse Winner | U.S. distribution |
| July 1, 1950 | Peggy | |
| July 12, 1950 | Winchester '73 | |
| August 5, 1950 | Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion | |
| August 5, 1950 | The Desert Hawk | |
| August 30, 1950 | South Sea Sinner | |
| August 31, 1950 | Madeleine | U.S. distribution |
| September 1, 1950 | Shakedown | |
| September 21, 1950 | Saddle Tramp | |
| October 16, 1950 | The Sleeping City | |
| October 17, 1950 | The Milkman | |
| October 18, 1950 | Wyoming Mail | |
| November 1, 1950 | Deported | |
| November 2, 1950 | Undercover Girl | |
| November 15, 1950 | Kansas Raiders | |
| November 29, 1950 | Woman on the Run | distribution only; produced by Fidelity Pictures Corporation |
| December 21, 1950 | Harvey | |
| December 25, 1950 | Frenchie | |
| December 1950 | Mystery Submarine | |

## 1951

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| February 5, 1951 | Tomahawk | |
| February 26, 1951 | The Magnet | U.S. distribution |
| March 3, 1951 | Target Unknown | |
| March 5, 1951 | Up Front | |
| March 7, 1951 | Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man | |
| March 14, 1951 | Air Cadet | |
| March 14, 1951 | The Groom Wore Spurs | distribution only; produced by Fidelity Pictures Corporation |
| April 1, 1951 | Katie Did It | |
| April 5, 1951 | Bedtime for Bonzo | |
| April 26, 1951 | Double Crossbones | |
| April 1951 | Apache Drums | |
| May 1, 1951 | Francis Goes to the Races | |
| May 10, 1951 | Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm | |
| May 18, 1951 | Smuggler's Island | |
| May 19, 1951 | The Fat Man | |
| June 1, 1951 | Hollywood Story | |
| July 2, 1951 | The Prince Who Was a Thief | |
| July 24, 1951 | The Mark of the Renegade | |
| July 26, 1951 | Comin' Round the Mountain | |
| August 1951 | Bright Victory | Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for best Motion - Drama |
| August 8, 1951 | Cattle Drive | |
| August 29, 1951 | Little Egypt | |
| September 1, 1951 | The Lady from Texas | |
| September 20, 1951 | Iron Man | |
| September 23, 1951 | You Never Can Tell | |
| October 15, 1951 | The Lavender Hill Mob | U.S. distribution |
| October 17, 1951 | Thunder on the Hill | |
| October 29, 1951 | The Browning Version | U.S. distribution |
| October 1951 | The Lady Pays Off | |
| October 1951 | The Golden Horde | |
| October 1951 | Reunion in Reno | |
| November 27, 1951 | Pool of London | U.S. distribution |
| November 1951 | The Raging Tide | |
| November 1951 | Cave of Outlaws | |
| December 8, 1951 | The Strange Door | |
| December 19, 1951 | Flame of Araby | |
| December 1951 | Week-End with Father | |

## 1952

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 13, 1952 | The Cimarron Kid | |
| January 23, 1952 | Bend of the River | |
| January 1952 | Finders Keepers | |
| February 23, 1952 | Here Come the Nelsons | |
| March 1, 1952 | The Treasure of Lost Canyon | |
| March 27, 1952 | Flesh and Fury | |
| April 1, 1952 | Meet Danny Wilson | |
| May 1, 1952 | Bronco Buster | |
| May 9, 1952 | Steel Town | |
| May 9, 1952 | The Battle at Apache Pass | |
| May 24, 1952 | Red Ball Express | |
| June 13, 1952 | No Room for the Groom | |
| June 20, 1952 | Scarlet Angel | |
| June 25, 1952 | Has Anybody Seen My Gal? | |
| June 27, 1952 | Just Across the Street | |
| June 1952 | Appointment with Venus | U.S. distribution |
| July 11, 1952 | Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair | |
| July 15, 1952 | White Corridors | U.S. distribution |
| July 23, 1952 | Untamed Frontier | |
| July 28, 1952 | Lost in Alaska | |
| July 1952 | Sally and Saint Anne | |
| July 1952 | Francis Goes to West Point | |
| August 15, 1952 | Son of Ali Baba | |
| September 2, 1952 | It Grows on Trees | |
| September 5, 1952 | The Duel at Silver Creek | |
| September 11, 1952 | Bonzo Goes to College | |
| September 16, 1952 | Yankee Buccaneer | |
| October 9, 1952 | The World in His Arms | |
| October 11, 1952 | Horizons West | |
| October 28, 1952 | The Card | U.S. distribution |
| October 1952 | Back at the Front | |
| November 20, 1952 | The Raiders | |
| December 4, 1952 | Because of You | |
| December 22, 1952 | The Importance of Being Earnest | U.S. distribution |
| December 24, 1952 | Against All Flags | |
| December 25, 1952 | The Black Castle | |

## 1953

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 3, 1953 | The Lawless Breed | |
| January 8, 1953 | The Redhead from Wyoming | |
| January 13, 1953 | The Mississippi Gambler | |
| January 15, 1953 | Girls in the Night | |
| January 1953 | Meet Me at the Fair | |
| March 1953 | Crash of Silence | U.S. distribution |
| March 20, 1953 | Seminole | |
| April 6, 1953 | Abbott and Costello Go to Mars | |
| April 20, 1953 | Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation | |
| April 21, 1953 | City Beneath the Sea | |
| April 22, 1953 | It Happens Every Thursday | |
| May 4, 1953 | Gunsmoke | |
| May 8, 1953 | Desert Legion | |
| May 13, 1953 | Law and Order | |
| May 20, 1953 | Column South | |
| May 20, 1953 | Thunder Bay | Universal's first film with stereophonic sound |
| June 5, 1953 | It Came from Outer Space | Universal's first 3D film |
| June 6, 1953 | A Queen Is Crowned | U.S. distribution |
| June 10, 1953 | Francis Covers the Big Town | |
| June 19, 1953 | Take Me to Town | |
| June 25, 1953 | All I Desire | |
| June 26, 1953 | The Lone Hand | |
| July 17, 1953 | The Great Sioux Uprising | |
| August 1, 1953 | Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | |
| August 1, 1953 | Desperate Moment | U.S. distribution |
| August 19, 1953 | The Cruel Sea | U.S. distribution |
| August 21, 1953 | The Man from the Alamo | |
| August 26, 1953 | Wings of the Hawk | 3-D |
| September 1953 | The Stand at Apache River | |
| September 23, 1953 | The Golden Blade | |
| September 23, 1953 | East of Sumatra | |
| October 7, 1953 | The Veils of Bagdad | |
| October 10, 1953 | Something Money Can't Buy | U.S. distribution |
| October 10, 1953 | The Gentle Gunman | U.S. distribution |
| October 20, 1953 | The Titfield Thunderbolt | U.S. distribution |
| October 1953 | All American | |
| November 1953 | Back to God's Country | |
| November 11, 1953 | The Glass Web | 3-D |
| December 2, 1953 | Forbidden | |
| December 6, 1953 | Walking My Baby Back Home | |
| December 1953 | Tumbleweed | |

## 1954

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 6, 1954 | War Arrow | |
| January 11, 1954 | Both Sides of the Law | U.S. distribution |
| January 1954 | Border River | |
| February 10, 1954 | Ride Clear of Diablo | |
| February 15, 1954 | Genevieve | U.S. distribution |
| February 17, 1954 | The Glenn Miller Story | |
| February 18, 1954 | Taza, Son of Cochise | |
| March 5, 1954 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | 3D |
| March 10, 1954 | Ma and Pa Kettle at Home | |
| March 30, 1954 | Saskatchewan | |
| April 14, 1954 | Rails Into Laramie | |
| April 17, 1954 | Yankee Pasha | |
| April 21, 1954 | Playgirl | |
| May 2, 1954 | Fireman Save My Child | |
| June 6, 1954 | Always a Bride | |
| June 22, 1954 | Johnny Dark | |
| June 1954 | Black Horse Canyon | |
| June 1954 | Drums Across the River | |
| July 3, 1954 | Tanganyika | |
| July 30, 1954 | Francis Joins the WACS | |
| August 7, 1954 | Magnificent Obsession | |
| August 30, 1954 | The Maggie | U.S. distribution |
| September 1, 1954 | Dawn at Socorro | |
| September 2, 1954 | The Black Shield of Falworth | |
| October 1, 1954 | Naked Alibi | |
| November 1, 1954 | Ricochet Romance | |
| November 6, 1954 | Bengal Brigade | |
| November 16, 1954 | The Yellow Mountain | |
| December 1, 1954 | Destry | |
| December 12, 1954 | Four Guns to the Border | |
| December 15, 1954 | So This Is Paris | |
| December 18, 1954 | Sign of the Pagan | |

## 1955

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 21, 1955 | Six Bridges to Cross | |
| February 2, 1955 | Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops | |
| February 12, 1955 | The Far Country | |
| March 24, 1955 | Man Without a Star | |
| March 26, 1955 | Captain Lightfoot | |
| March 1955 | Smoke Signal | |
| April 12, 1955 | The Man from Bitter Ridge | |
| April 1955 | Chief Crazy Horse | |
| April 1955 | Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki | |
| May 2, 1955 | The Seekers | U.S. distribution |
| May 13, 1955 | Revenge of the Creature | |
| May 30, 1955 | Cult of the Cobra | |
| May 1955 | The Looters | |
| June 1, 1955 | This Island Earth | |
| June 15, 1955 | The Purple Mask | |
| June 16, 1955 | The Shrike | |
| June 23, 1955 | Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy | |
| July 1, 1955 | Ain't Misbehavin' | |
| August 2, 1955 | The Private War of Major Benson | |
| August 19, 1955 | Female on the Beach | |
| August 23, 1955 | Foxfire | Last American film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor |
| August 24, 1955 | Francis in the Navy | |
| September 2, 1955 | One Desire | |
| September 22, 1955 | To Hell and Back | |
| September 23, 1955 | Kiss of Fire | |
| October 1955 | The Second Greatest Sex | |
| November 1955 | Hold Back Tomorrow | |
| November 2, 1955 | The Naked Dawn | |
| November 2, 1955 | Lady Godiva of Coventry | |
| November 23, 1955 | Tarantula | |
| December 1, 1955 | Running Wild | |
| December 23, 1955 | The Spoilers | |
| December 25, 1955 | All That Heaven Allows | |
| December 30, 1955 | The Square Jungle | |

## 1956

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 8, 1956 | There's Always Tomorrow | |
| February 2, 1956 | The Benny Goodman Story | |
| March 10, 1956 | Never Say Goodbye | |
| March 13, 1956 | The Price of Fear | |
| March 24, 1956 | Raw Edge | |
| March 1956 | World in My Corner | |
| March 1956 | Red Sundown | |
| April 11, 1956 | Backlash | |
| April 26, 1956 | The Creature Walks Among Us | |
| April 1956 | The Kettles in the Ozarks | |
| May 2, 1956 | A Day of Fury | |
| June 1956 | Outside the Law | |
| June 13, 1956 | Star in the Dust | |
| June 29, 1956 | The Toy Tiger | |
| July 1956 | Edge of Hell | |
| July 1956 | Congo Crossing | |
| July 1956 | Behind the High Wall | |
| July 1, 1956 | The Rawhide Years | |
| July 9, 1956 | Francis in the Haunted House | |
| August 16, 1956 | Away All Boats | Filmed in VistaVision |
| September 1956 | I've Lived Before | |
| September 1956 | Walk the Proud Land | |
| October 12, 1956 | Pillars of the Sky | |
| October 26, 1956 | The Brave One | Made for RKO Pictures |
| October 1956 | Showdown at Abilene | |
| December 1, 1956 | Everything but the Truth | |
| December 25, 1956 | Written on the Wind | |
| December 27, 1956 | The Unguarded Moment | |
| December 1956 | Curucu, Beast of the Amazon | |
| December 1956 | The Great Man | |
| December 1956 | The Mole People | |
| December 1956 | Rock, Pretty Baby | |

## 1957

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 16, 1957 | Four Girls in Town | |
| January 23, 1957 | Istanbul | |
| January 30, 1957 | Gun for a Coward | |
| February 1, 1957 | The Young Stranger | distribution only; co-production with Stuart Miller Productions; distributed by RKO Radio Pictures |
| February 14, 1957 | Battle Hymn | |
| February 22, 1957 | The Incredible Shrinking Man | |
| February 23, 1957 | Mister Cory | co-production with Curtleigh Productions |
| March 14, 1957 | The Tattered Dress | |
| April 2, 1957 | The Night Runner | |
| April 4, 1957 | Man Afraid | |
| April 10, 1957 | Kelly and Me | |
| April 11, 1957 | The Girl in the Kremlin | |
| May 10, 1957 | The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm | |
| May 19, 1957 | Public Pigeon No. 1 | Made for RKO Pictures |
| May 26, 1957 | The Deadly Mantis | |
| May 29, 1957 | Joe Butterfly | |
| June 4, 1957 | The Midnight Story | |
| June 14, 1957 | Tammy and the Bachelor | plus Tammy sequels in 1961, 1963, and 1967 |
| July 24, 1957 | Night Passage | |
| July 28, 1957 | Doctor at Large | U.S. distribution |
| August 13, 1957 | Man of a Thousand Faces | |
| September 1, 1957 | Slaughter on Tenth Avenue | |
| September 5, 1957 | Run of the Arrow | distribution only; made for RKO Pictures |
| September 6, 1957 | Quantez | |
| September 1957 | That Night! | made for RKO Pictures |
| September 1957 | Appointment with a Shadow | |
| October 1, 1957 | Jet Pilot | made for RKO PIctures |
| October 18, 1957 | My Man Godfrey | |
| October 27, 1957 | Joe Dakota | |
| October 30, 1957 | The Land Unknown | |
| October 30, 1957 | Interlude | |
| October 1957 | The Unholy Wife | distribution only; made for RKO Pictures |
| November 13, 1957 | All Mine to Give | distribution only; made for RKO Pictures |
| November 27, 1957 | The Violators | distribution only; made for RKO Pictures |
| November 1957 | Slim Carter | |
| December 18, 1957 | The Monolith Monsters | |
| December 23, 1957 | Escapade in Japan | distribution only; made for RKO Pictures |
| December 1957 | Love Slaves of the Amazons | |

## 1958

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 11, 1958 | The Tarnished Angels | |
| January 22, 1958 | Man in the Shadow | |
| January 30, 1958 | The Lady Takes a Flyer | |
| February 5, 1958 | Day of the Badman | |
| February 1958 | The Girl Most Likely | distribution only; made for RKO Pictures |
| February 1958 | The Big Beat | |
| February 1958 | Flood Tide | |
| March 1, 1958 | Damn Citizen | |
| March 5, 1958 | The Mark of the Hawk | U.S. distribution only |
| April 1958 | Live Fast, Die Young | co-production with B.R.K. Inc. |
| April 1958 | Girls on the Loose | co-production with Jewell Enterprises Inc. |
| April 23, 1958 | Touch of Evil | |
| April 23, 1958 | The Female Animal | |
| May 8, 1958 | Horror of Dracula | U.S. distribution only; produced by Hammer Film Productions |
| May 14, 1958 | I Married a Woman | distribution only; made for RKO Pictures |
| June 18, 1958 | This Happy Feeling | |
| June 25, 1958 | Summer Love | |
| June 27, 1958 | The Thing That Couldn't Die | |
| July 9, 1958 | A Time to Love and a Time to Die | |
| July 1958 | The Last of the Fast Guns | |
| August 6, 1958 | Twilight for the Gods | |
| August 13, 1958 | Voice in the Mirror | |
| August 1958 | Wild Heritage | |
| September 19, 1958 | Raw Wind in Eden | |
| September 24, 1958 | Kathy O' | |
| September 1958 | Step Down to Terror | |
| September 1958 | Once Upon a Horse... | |
| October 1958 | Blood of the Vampire | U.S. distribution only; production by Artistes Alliance Ltd. |
| October 1958 | Money, Women and Guns | |
| October 1, 1958 | The Saga of Hemp Brown | |
| November 23, 1958 | Ride a Crooked Trail | |
| November 30, 1958 | The Perfect Furlough | Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Comedy. |
| December 17, 1958 | Monster on the Campus | |
| December 1958 | The Restless Years | |

## 1959

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| 1959 | The Race for Space | |
| February 11, 1959 | Never Steal Anything Small | |
| March 3, 1959 | A Stranger in My Arms | |
| March 18, 1959 | Imitation of Life | |
| May 27, 1959 | The Wild and the Innocent | |
| May 1959 | Curse of the Undead | |
| June 1959 | Born to Be Loved | distribution only; production by Hugo Haas Productions |
| July 8, 1959 | This Earth Is Mine | co-production with Vintage Productions |
| October 2, 1959 | The Silent Enemy | U.S. distribution |
| October 7, 1959 | Pillow Talk | distribution only; production by Arwin Productions Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Comedy. |
| October 7, 1959 | 4D Man | distribution only; production by Fairview Productions and Jack H. Harris Enterprises |
| November 20, 1959 | The Snow Queen | English dub, U.S. distribution only |
| December 5, 1959 | Operation Petticoat | distribution only; production by Granart Company Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Comedy |
| December 16, 1959 | The Mummy | U.S. distribution only; co-production with Hammer Film Productions |