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Tag Archives: 1950s
Don’t Go Near the Water (1957) Charles Walters, Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Holliman
On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy’s P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Read More »
Born to Be Loved (1959) Hugo Haas, Carol Morris, Barbara Jo Allen
A seamstress (Carol Morris) and a music teacher (Hugo Haas) play Cupid for each other, ending with a double wedding. Read More »
Three Sinners AKA Meurtres (1950) Richard Pottier, Fernandel, Mireille Perrey, Jacques Varennes
Noel Annequin is the black sheep of a social-climbing bourgeois family who married Read More »
Patterns (1956) Fielder Cook, Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley
The story of the fierce and corrosive competition that exists in the executive branch Read More »
Pepe El Toro (1953) Ismael Rodríguez, Pedro Infante, Evita Muñoz ‘Chachita’, Amanda del Llano
Pepe el Toro becomes a boxer and accidentally kills his best friend during a semi-final match. Read More »
High Lonesome (1950) Alan Le May, John Drew Barrymore, Chill Wills, John Archer
In Texas’ Big Bend country, a young drifter is caught stealing food at the Davis ranch. Read More »
The Ride Back (1957) Allen H. Miner, Oscar Rudolph, Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, Lita Milan
A Sheriff goes into Mexico in search of a man wanted back in the States. Read More »
The Long Haul (1957) Ken Hughes, Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen
Desperate to earn money, Harry hooks back up with Joe Easy. The best scene is when they make the final run to cash out a load of furs Read More »
Second Fiddle (1957) Maurice Elvey, Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, Lisa Gastoni
Deborah and Charles, very much in love, are young executives at the successful Pontifex Advertising Agency. Read More »
The Overcoat AKA Il cappotto (1952) Alberto Lattuada, Renato Rascel, Yvonne Sanson, Giulio Stival
Based on Nikolai Gogol’s story with the location changed from Russia to Italy Read More »
Oh! Susanna (1951) Joseph Kane, Rod Cameron, Lorna Gray, Forrest Tucker
Unable to keep peace between frontier Indians and the US Cavalry, a heroic Captain risks court-martial to prevent bloodshed. Read More »
Terror Is a Man (1959) Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero, Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr
William Fitzgerald finds himself shipwrecked on an island whose native inhabitants have recently fled. Read More »
The Phenix City Story (1955) Phil Karlson, John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
In this semidocumentary, an Alabama town is run by a crime syndicate that’s grown fat on prostitution and crooked gambling Read More »
Gun Glory (1957) Roy Rowland, Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming, Chill Wills
In 1886, the gunman and gambler Tom Early returns to his homeland to settle down, but he is rejected by his community. Read More »