This entry in the series featuring RCMP Rod Webb and his wonder dog, Chinook, has a larger cast than usual Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Street of Shame AKA Akasen Chitai (1956) Kenji Mizoguchi, Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao
Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo’s Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women’s daily dramas play out. Read More »
The Life of Oharu AKA Saikaku Ichidai Onna (1952) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
A fifty-year-old prostitute, no longer able to attract men, looks back on her sad life. Read More »
The Actress (1953) George Cukor, Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright
Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Read More »
To Catch a Thief (1955) Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis
American expatriate John Robie living in high style on the Riviera is a retired cat burglar. Read More »
Uncle Was a Vampire AKA Tempi duri per i vampiri (1959) Steno, Renato Rascel, Sylva Koscina, Lia Zoppelli
Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi is forced to sell his ancestral castle Read More »
Under the Olive Tree AKA Non c’è pace tra gli ulivi (1950) Giuseppe De Santis, Raf Vallone, Lucia Bosé, Folco Lulli
Raf Vallone plays Francesco Dominici, a shepherd and war veteran who returns home to find that his flock Read More »
Star of India (1954) Arthur Lubin, Cornel Wilde, Leslie Linder, Jean Wallace
Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne Read More »
Donne e Briganti (1950) Mario Soldati, Amedeo Nazzari, Maria Mauban, Jean Chevrier
Sul letto di morte, il signor Luciani confessa al figlio Peppino che sua sorella Marietta è in realtà la figlia illegittima di Ferdinando IV di Borbone Read More »
Stars in My Crown (1950) Jacques Tourneur, Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. Read More »
Texas Lady (1955) Tim Whelan, Claudette Colbert, Barry Sullivan, Ray Collins
Prudence travels to an isolated Texas town where she has inherited the local paper. Read More »
Forbidden (1953) Rudolph Maté, Tony Curtis, Joanne Dru, Lyle Bettger
Eddie Darrow has been hired by Philadelphia mobster Barney Pendleton to locate Christine Lawrence Read More »
Evil Man of Edo AKA Edo no akutaro (1959) Masahiro Makino, Kusuo Abe, Kunio Kaga, Chizuru Kitagawa
A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on the good citizens Read More »
Fargo (1952) Lewis D. Collins, Bill Elliott, Myron Healey, Phyllis Coates
The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started by cattleman. Read More »
Young Man with Ideas (1952) Mitchell Leisen, Glenn Ford, Ruth Roman, Denise Darcel
A Montana lawyer (Glenn Ford) gets distracted after moving to California with his wife (Ruth Roman) and children. Read More »