Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1950

Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date
January 1950
January 1 Father of the Bride (1950) (Wide) $10,135,000
Three Little Words (Wide) $2,800,000
 
January 20 Gun Crazy (Limited) United Artists  
 
January 26 Backfire (Limited) Warner Bros.  
February 1950
February 2 The Third Man (Wide) Selznick Releasing Organization $1,034,144
 
February 15 Cinderella (Wide) Walt Disney $93,141,149
Stromboli (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
February 20 Guilty of Treason (Limited) Eagle Films  
 
February 28 Singing Guns (Limited) Republic Pictures  
March 1950
March 1 The Kid from Texas (Wide) Universal  
Young Man With a Horn (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
March 11 The Tattooed Stranger (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
March 17 Stars in My Crown (Limited) MGM  
 
March 24 Barricade (Limited) Warner Bros.  
April 1950
April 8 The Rules of the Game (Limited) $272,256
 
April 22 Storm over Wyoming (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
Wagon Master (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
May 1950
May 1 Comanche Territory (Limited) Universal  
 
May 13 The Damned Don’t Cry (Limited)  
 
May 16 The Jackie Robinson Story (Limited)  
 
May 17 Annie Get Your Gun (Wide) MGM $8,000,000
In a Lonely Place (Limited)  
 
May 19 Shadow on the Wall (Limited) MGM  
 
May 26 The Big Hangover (Limited)  
 
May 27 The Secret Fury (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
May 31 Chain Lightning (Limited) Warner Bros.  
June 1950
June 1 The Asphalt Jungle (Limited)  
The Blue Lamp (Limited) Eagle-Lion Classics  
 
June 3 The Woman on Pier 13 (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
June 9 Night and the City (Limited)  
 
June 10 Caged (Limited)  
 
June 16 This Side of the Law (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
June 27 Destination Moon (Limited) $5,000,000
 
June 30 Trigger, Jr. (Limited) Republic Pictures  
July 1950
July 2 Bright Leaf (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
July 7 Crisis (Limited) MGM  
 
July 12 Winchester '73 (Wide) $4,500,000
 
July 14 Duchess of Idaho (Wide) $2,600,000
 
July 19 Fancy Pants (Wide) $2,600,000
 
July 21 The Furies (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
July 28 Mystery Street (Limited) MGM  
August 1950
August 1 The Cariboo Trail (Limited)  
 
August 6 Vigilante Hideout (Limited) Republic Pictures  
 
August 10 Sunset Boulevard (Limited)  
 
August 31 Summer Stock (Limited) MGM  
September 1950
September 1 A Life of Her Own (Limited)  
Shakedown (Limited) Universal  
 
September 2 Farewell to Yesterday (Limited)  
Tea for Two (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
September 15 Devil's Doorway (Limited)  
Panic in the Streets (Limited)  
 
September 18 Bitter Rice (Limited)  
 
September 21 Saddle Tramp (Wide)  
 
September 30 The Breaking Point (Limited) Warner Bros.  
October 1950
October 13 All About Eve (Wide) 20th Century Fox $8,400,000
To Please a Lady (Limited) MGM  
 
October 14 Walk Softly, Stranger (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
Outrage (Festival Screening)  
November 1950
November 10 Two Weeks With Love (Limited) MGM  
 
November 11 Rocky Mountain (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
November 15 Rio Grande (Limited) Republic Pictures  
 
November 16 Where Danger Lives (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
November 24 King Solomon's Mines (1950) (Wide) $11,172,000
 
November 29 Let’s Dance (Limited)  
December 1950
December 8 Highway 301 (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
December 21 Harvey (Limited) Universal  
 
December 22 The West Point Story (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
December 23 Dallas (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
December 25 Manon (Limited) Self Distributed  
 
December 26 The Man Who Cheated Himself (Limited) 20th Century Fox  
 
 
During 1950 The Gunfighter (Wide) 20th Century Fox