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Tag Archives: 1950s
Cuban Rebel Girls (1959) Barry Mahon, Errol Flynn, Beverly Aadland, John McKay
Errol Flynn, playing himself as a war correspondent, helps Fidel Castro overthrow Cuban dictator Batista. Read More »
Here Comes the Groom (1951) Frank Capra, Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith
Pete Garvey, foreign correspondent, has been running an impromptu adoption agency for war orphans in Paris Read More »
Harbor of Missing Men (1950) R.G. Springsteen, Richard Denning, Barbra Fuller, Steven Geray
A fishing-boat owner, Jim “Brooklyn” Gannon, cuts a deal with a gangster syndicate to deliver a load of contraband firearms. Read More »
Everything But the Truth (1956) Jerry Hopper, Maureen O’Hara, John Forsythe, Tim Hovey
Willie Taylor, small-town 4th-grade schoolboy, takes to heart his admired teacher’s words about truthfulness Read More »
A Hole of My Own Making AKA Jibun no ana no nakade (1955) Tomu Uchida, Rentarô Mikuni, Yumeji Tsukioka, Mie Kitahara
Amidst endless construction and aircraft noise, a family whose father died in the war slowly disintegrates Read More »
A Man Walks in the City AKA Un homme marche dans la ville (1950) Marcello Pagliero, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Ginette Leclerc, Robert Dalban
A gritty story of dock workers scraping a living in post-war Le Havre, the damage caused to the town during the war all too apparent. Read More »
Francis Joins the WACS (1954) Arthur Lubin, Donald O’Connor, Julie Adams, Chill Wills
On arrival at Fort Chase, ex-soldier Peter Stirling, recalled to active duty, is re-united with his old pal Francis the Talking Mule. Read More »
Francis in the Haunted House (1956) Charles Lamont, Mickey Rooney, Virginia Welles, James Flavin
Though both star Donald O’Connor and director Arthur Lubin had said goodbye to the “Francis the Talking Mule” series Read More »
The Hard Man (1957) George Sherman, Guy Madison, Valerie French, Lorne Greene
Steve Burden is a former lawman released for bringing in too many wanted men dead. Read More »
Francis Goes to West Point (1952) Arthur Lubin, Donald O’Connor, Lori Nelson, Alice Kelley
Francis Goes to West Point is the third entry in Universal’s money-spinning series about a talking mule. Read More »
The Mating Season (1951) Mitchell Leisen, Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. Read More »
Flucht ins Schilf AKA Brutality (1953) Kurt Steinwendner, Heinz Altringen, Kurt Jaggberg, Ilka Windish
Am Neusiedlersee wird die Leiche eines Postboten gefunden, die Ermittlungen ergeben Read More »
Carbine Williams (1952) Richard Thorpe, James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey
This is the story of David Marshall ‘Marsh’ Williams, the real life inventor of the world famous M-1 Carbine Read More »
Desire Under the Elms (1958) Delbert Mann, Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives
Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Read More »