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1950s Business Movies

Public list by WPS with 6 movies or TV shows/series

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The Man in the White Suit(1951)

1h 25min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 76 votes)

The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...

Directed by Alexander Mackendrick - With Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, George Benson, Ernest Thesiger, ...
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?(1957)

NR
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 25 votes)

To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick. But she wants something too: he has to pretend to be her new lover.

Directed by Frank Tashlin - With Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, Mickey Hargitay, Groucho Marx, ...
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The Fuller Brush Girl(1950)

1h 25min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.

Directed by Lloyd Bacon - With Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Carl Benton Reid, Gale Robbins, Jeff Donnell, Jerome Cowan, ...
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Chance of a Lifetime(1950)

1h 29min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.

Directed by Bernard Miles - With Basil Radford, Kenneth More
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Woman's World(1954)

1h 34min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.

Directed by Jean Negulesco - With Clifton Webb, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl, ...

The Rest Is Silence(1959)

1h 40min | Drama, Crime
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

'The Rest Is Silence, a German-made attempt to update Shakespeare, is one of the best and least self-conscious of this minor genre. As indicated by the title, the film's script is a "mufti" version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Krüger trying to prove that his uncle has killed his father. Direct references to the Shakespeare original abound, right down to the re-enactment of the crime for the benefit of the Uncle and the periodic appearances of the ghost of the hero's father.'.

Directed by Helmut Käutner - With Hardy Krüger, Peter van Eyck, Ingrid Andree, Adelheid Seeck, Rudolf Forster, Boy Gobert, ...
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