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Tag Archives: 1950s
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) Mervyn LeRoy, Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon
Million Dollar Mermaid tells the story of Australian swimming sensation Annette Kellerman Read More »
Nine Lives AKA Ni liv (1957) Arne Skouen, Jack Fjeldstad, Henny Moan, Alf Malland
The movie takes place during World War II and depicts the true story of Jan Baalsruds Read More »
Never So Few (1959) John Sturges, Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford
Captain Tom Reynolds and his band of skilled OSS operatives are in WWII Burma to arm and train the Kachin natives. Read More »
The Buccaneer (1958) Anthony Quinn, Yul Brynner, Claire Bloom, Charles Boyer
During the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Read More »
The White Tower (1950) Ted Tetzlaff, Claude Rains, Glenn Ford, Alida Valli
The White Tower, a Matterhorn-like mountain in the Swiss Alps, has never been climbed. Read More »
The Lady Vampire AKA Onna kyûketsuki (1959) Nobuo Nakagawa, Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi
A woman who’s been missing for twenty years suddenly turns up alive, and looking not a day older than when she vanished. Read More »
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 »