# List of Paramount Pictures films (1950–1959)

The following is a list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by Paramount Pictures and released in the 1950s.

## 1950

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 5, 1950 | The File on Thelma Jordon | produced by Wallis-Hazen From this point forward, Paramount owns most of the following titles. |
| February 2, 1950 | Captain China | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| February 15, 1950 | Paid in Full | |
| February 21, 1950 | No Man of Her Own | |
| February 21, 1950 | Captain Carey, U.S.A. | |
| April 12, 1950 | Riding High | |
| May 30, 1950 | The Eagle and the Hawk | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| June 9, 1950 | The Lawless | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| July 4, 1950 | My Friend Irma Goes West | |
| July 19, 1950 | Fancy Pants | |
| July 21, 1950 | The Furies | |
| August 10, 1950 | Sunset Boulevard | Starring Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.Inducted into the National Film Registry in 1989 |
| September 8, 1950 | Union Station | |
| October 3, 1950 | Cassino to Korea | produced by CNI Cinema |
| October 6, 1950 | Dark City | produced by Hal Wallis Productions |
| October 10, 1950 | Trio | |
| October 18, 1950 | September Affair | |
| November 9, 1950 | Tripoli | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| November 15, 1950 | Copper Canyon | |
| November 29, 1950 | Let's Dance | |
| December 8, 1950 | Mr. Music | |
| December 23, 1950 | Branded | |
| December 23, 1950 | The Goldbergs | |

## 1951

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 12, 1951 | The Mating Season | |
| January 17, 1951 | At War with the Army | distribution only; produced by Fred F. Finklehoffe Productions, Screen Associates Inc. & York Pictures Corporation |
| March 15, 1951 | The Redhead and the Cowboy | |
| March 15, 1951 | Quebec | |
| April 2, 1951 | The Lemon Drop Kid | distribution only; produced by Hope Enterprises |
| April 4, 1951 | The Last Outpost | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| April 7, 1951 | The Great Missouri Raid | |
| May 9, 1951 | Appointment with Danger | |
| May 30, 1951 | Dear Brat | |
| May 31, 1951 | That's My Boy | |
| June 29, 1951 | Ace in the Hole | Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2017 |
| July 18, 1951 | Peking Express | |
| August 8, 1951 | Darling, How Could You! | |
| August 14, 1951 | A Place in the Sun | Nominee for the Academy Award for Best PictureInducted into the National Film Registry in 1991 |
| August 30, 1951 | Passage West | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| August 1951 | Warpath | |
| September 20, 1951 | Here Comes the Groom | |
| September 27, 1951 | Rhubarb | |
| November 6, 1951 | Detective Story | |
| November 15, 1951 | When Worlds Collide | |
| November 1951 | Red Mountain | |
| November 1951 | Submarine Command | |
| December 1, 1951 | Silver City | |
| December 6, 1951 | Crosswinds | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| December 25, 1951 | My Favorite Spy | |

## 1952

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 10, 1952 | The Greatest Show on Earth | Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture |
| January 12, 1952 | Hong Kong | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| February 9, 1952 | Sailor Beware | |
| February 1952 | Flaming Feather | |
| March 7, 1952 | Something to Live For | |
| April 1, 1952 | Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick | |
| April 2, 1952 | Encore | |
| April 3, 1952 | Anything Can Happen | |
| April 8, 1952 | My Son John | |
| May 1, 1952 | The Atomic City | |
| May 16, 1952 | Denver and Rio Grande | |
| June 11, 1952 | Jumping Jacks | |
| July 14, 1952 | Son of Paleface | distribution only; produced by Hope Enterprises |
| July 17, 1952 | Carrie | |
| August 21, 1952 | Just for You | |
| September 24, 1952 | Somebody Loves Me | |
| September 1952 | The Savage | |
| September 1952 | Caribbean Gold | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| October 3, 1952 | Hurricane Smith | |
| November 14, 1952 | The Turning Point | |
| December 24, 1952 | Come Back, Little Sheba | |
| December 25, 1952 | Road to Bali | distribution only; produced by Hope Enterprises; The sixth of the Road films |
| December 31, 1952 | The Stooge | |
| December 1952 | The Blazing Forest | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |

## 1953

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 1953 | Tropic Zone |
| February 3, 1953 | Thunder in the East | |
| March 11, 1953 | The Stars Are Singing | |
| March 26, 1953 | Off Limits | |
| April 1, 1953 | The Girls of Pleasure Island | |
| April 22, 1953 | Jamaica Run | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| April 23, 1953 | Shane | Nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture Inducted into the National Film Registry in 1993 |
| April 27, 1953 | Scared Stiff | |
| May 27, 1953 | Sangaree | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| June 3, 1953 | The Vanquished | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| June 5, 1953 | Pony Express | |
| June 6, 1953 | Stalag 17 | |
| July 2, 1953 | Houdini | |
| August 3, 1953 | Arrowhead | |
| August 10, 1953 | The Caddy | |
| August 26, 1953 | The War of the Worlds | Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2011 |
| September 2, 1953 | Roman Holiday | Nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture Inducted into the National Film Registry in 1999 |
| October 7, 1953 | Botany Bay | |
| October 16, 1953 | Those Redheads from Seattle | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| October 22, 1953 | Here Come the Girls | |
| October 1953 | Little Boy Lost | |
| November 21, 1953 | Flight to Tangier | |
| November 24, 1953 | Cease Fire | |
| November 28, 1953 | Forever Female | |
| December 31, 1953 | Money from Home | |

## 1954

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 27, 1954 | Alaska Seas | |
| February 12, 1954 | Jivaro | |
| March 3, 1954 | The Naked Jungle | |
| March 26, 1954 | Red Garters | |
| April 7, 1954 | Casanova's Big Night | |
| April 14, 1954 | Knock on Wood | |
| April 21, 1954 | Elephant Walk | |
| June 6, 1954 | Secret of the Incas | |
| July 23, 1954 | Living It Up | |
| August 3, 1954 | About Mrs. Leslie | |
| September 1, 1954 | Rear Window | distribution only; produced by Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions; Inducted into the National Film Registry in 1997 |
| October 14, 1954 | White Christmas | |
| October 15, 1954 | Sabrina | Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2002 |
| December 22, 1954 | 3 Ring Circus | |

## 1955

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 20, 1955 | The Bridges at Toko-Ri | |
| March 25, 1955 | Strategic Air Command | |
| March 30, 1955 | Mambo | |
| April 20, 1955 | Conquest of Space | |
| May 14, 1955 | Run for Cover | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| May 17, 1955 | The Country Girl | Nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture |
| May 20, 1955 | The Far Horizons | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| June 23, 1955 | The Seven Little Foys | distribution only; produced by Hope Enterprises |
| June 27, 1955 | Hell's Island | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| July 7, 1955 | We're No Angels | |
| July 20, 1955 | You're Never Too Young | |
| August 3, 1955 | To Catch a Thief | directed by Alfred Hitchcock |
| September 1955 | The Girl Rush | |
| October 3, 1955 | The Trouble with Harry | distribution only; produced by Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions |
| October 5, 1955 | The Desperate Hours | |
| October 20, 1955 | Lucy Gallant | produced by Pine-Thomas Productions |
| October 1955 | Ulysses | distribution only; produced by Lux Film, Producciones Ponti-de Laurentiis and Zénith Films |
| November 7, 1955 | Artists and Models | |
| December 12, 1955 | The Rose Tattoo | Nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture |

## 1956

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 27, 1956 | The Court Jester | Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2004 |
| April 22, 1956 | The Birds and the Bees | |
| April 1956 | Anything Goes | |
| April 1956 | The Scarlet Hour | |
| June 1, 1956 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | distribution only; produced by Filwite Productions |
| June 4, 1956 | That Certain Feeling | |
| June 6, 1956 | The Leather Saint | |
| June 13, 1956 | The Proud and Profane | |
| July 17, 1956 | Godzilla, King of the Monsters! | Released in Spain |
| August 1, 1956 | Pardners | |
| August 21, 1956 | War and Peace | |
| August 29, 1956 | The Vagabond King | |
| October 1, 1956 | The Search for Bridey Murphy | |
| October 5, 1956 | The Ten Commandments | Nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture. A remake of the 1923 film, in VistaVision. It has been annually broadcast by the ABC television network in the United States since 1973, traditionally the evening before Easter Sunday. Inducted into the National Film Registry in 1999 |
| November 14, 1956 | The Mountain | |
| December 6, 1956 | Hollywood or Bust | 16th and final Martin and Lewis comedy film. |
| December 13, 1956 | The Rainmaker | |

## 1957

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| February 9, 1957 | Three Violent People | |
| February 13, 1957 | Funny Face | |
| March 20, 1957 | Fear Strikes Out | |
| May 30, 1957 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | |
| May 1957 | The Buster Keaton Story | |
| June 6, 1957 | The Delicate Delinquent | |
| June 7, 1957 | Beau James | |
| July 9, 1957 | Loving You | distribution only |
| August 23, 1957 | Omar Khayyam | |
| September 26, 1957 | The Joker Is Wild | |
| September 1957 | Short Cut to Hell | |
| October 4, 1957 | The Devil's Hairpin | |
| October 16, 1957 | Mister Rock and Roll | |
| October 23, 1957 | The Tin Star | |
| October 25, 1957 | Spanish Affair | |
| October 1957 | Hear Me Good | |
| November 5, 1957 | Stowaway Girl | |
| November 10, 1957 | The Lonely Man | |
| November 13, 1957 | Zero Hour! | Theatrical distribution, co-production with Bartlett-Champion Productions, Carmel Productions and Delta Enterprises Inc. |
| November 27, 1957 | The Sad Sack | |
| December 11, 1957 | Wild Is the Wind | |

## 1958

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 1958 | High Hell | |
| March 12, 1958 | Desire Under the Elms | |
| March 1958 | Country Music Holiday | |
| April 1, 1958 | Teacher's Pet | |
| April 7, 1958 | St. Louis Blues | |
| May 2, 1958 | Another Time, Another Place | |
| May 9, 1958 | Vertigo | distribution only; produced by Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions Inducted into the National Film Registry in 1989 |
| May 21, 1958 | Maracaibo | |
| June 1958 | The Space Children | |
| June 1958 | Hot Spell | |
| July 2, 1958 | King Creole | |
| July 23, 1958 | Rock-A-Bye Baby | |
| August 12, 1958 | The Matchmaker | |
| September 12, 1958 | The Blob | theatrical distribution only; produced by Fairview Productions, Tonylyn Productions and Valley Forge Films |
| September 1958 | As Young as We Are | |
| September 1958 | The Party Crashers | |
| October 1958 | I Married a Monster from Outer Space | |
| November 1, 1958 | When Hell Broke Loose | |
| November 2, 1958 | The Geisha Boy | |
| November 19, 1958 | Houseboat | |
| November 19, 1958 | The Colossus of New York | |
| December 1, 1958 | The Buccaneer | A remake of the 1936 version; filmed in Technicolor and VistaVision. |
| December 1958 | The Hot Angel | |

## 1959

| Release date | Title | Notes |
| January 28, 1959 | The Trap | |
| February 12, 1959 | The Black Orchid | |
| February 1959 | The Young Captives | |
| February 1959 | Tokyo After Dark | |
| March 26, 1959 | Tempest | |
| April 8, 1959 | Thunder in the Sun | |
| June 16, 1959 | Don't Give Up the Ship | |
| June 17, 1959 | The Hangman | |
| June 18, 1959 | The Five Pennies | |
| June 1959 | The Man Who Could Cheat Death | |
| July 8, 1959 | Tarzan's Greatest Adventure | distribution only; produced by Solar Film Productions |
| July 29, 1959 | Last Train from Gun Hill | |
| August 19, 1959 | But Not for Me | |
| September 11, 1959 | That Kind of Woman | |
| October 8, 1959 | Career | |
| October 15, 1959 | The Jayhawkers! | |
| December 11, 1959 | Li'l Abner | Based on the comic strip of the same name |