I haven't seen any of the new 3D films, but I've discovered that Douglas Sirk's rare western, "Taza, Son of Cochise", was released in 3D! I only saw that once, on UK television, probably back in the '80s. I've seen "Dial M For Murder" and "Creature From the Black Lagoon" in 3D. Would love to see "House of Wax" by the great André de Toth:

from http://www.filmsite.org/50sintro2.html

3-D Movies

In the same year as the debut of Cinerama (1952), showmanship and gimmicks like 3-D were used to bring audiences back. Special polarized, 'stereoscopic' goggles or cardboard glasses worn by viewers made the action jump off the screen - in reality, the glasses were unpopular, clunky and the viewing was blurry, although it was difficult (and expensive) for theatre owners to get cinema-goers to give them back. The 3-D effect was unable to compensate for the inferior level of most of the films.

The first full-length 3-D feature sound film was UA's cheaply-made jungle adventure Bwana Devil (1952)) by writer/director Arch Oboler, and starring Robert Stack - its taglines advertised: "A Lion in Your Lap" and "A Lover In Your Arms." The film depicted man-eating lion attacks upon the builders of the Uganda Railway. [Note: The first feature-length 3-D film was The Power of Love (1922).]

The 3-D effect was also used in many different genres:

•in horror films (Warners' and B-film maker Andre de Toth's House of Wax (1953) with horror master Vincent Price, a remake of Warners' The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)) - the first 3-D horror film to be in the top ten box office hits in its year of release, Vincent Price portrayed the owner of a macabre wax museum in his first horror film, House of Wax (1953)
•in musicals (George Sidney's Kiss Me Kate (1953))
•in romantic musical comedies (The French Line (1953) starring busty Jane Russell) - one provocative tagline touted: "It'll knock BOTH your eyes out"
•in westerns (Douglas Sirk's Taza, Son of Cochise (1954))
•in science fiction (the cheaply-made Robot Monster (1953), and It Came From Outer Space (1953) - the first 3-D science fiction film) - and shortly thereafter, in The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954), a story of a Gill-Man set in the Amazon (and featuring Clint Eastwood in his film debut as a lab assistant)
•in thrillers (Hitchcock's 3-D version of Dial M For Murder (1954))

from http://www.filmsite.org/50sintro6.html

Douglas Sirk:

The second talented and influential director of the 50s, known for visually striking, feverish, highly polished, exaggerated, big budget, emotional soap opera - melodramas, was Douglas Sirk. His best-known glossy films, with innovative production design and a dramatic use of garish color, often featured Rock Hudson:

•Magnificent Obsession (1954) - a remake of the successful 1935 blockbuster
•All That Heaven Allows (1956) - about a middle-aged widow's unacceptable affair with her bohemian gardener in a small town
•the soapy Written on the Wind (1956) about an alcoholic Texas oilman and his sexy, trampish sister (Robert Stack and Oscar-winning Dorothy Malone)
•Interlude (1957)
•The Tarnished Angels (1957)
•A Time to Love and A Time to Die (1958)
•Imitation of Life (1959), Sirk's last film, from the novel by Fannie Hurst

The top post is wrong--Clint Eastwood appeared in "Revenge of the Creature" not "Creature from the Black Lagoon".

Douglas Sirk made a western? I thought he just directed three-handkerchief tear-jerkers.