In postwar Vienna, fate brings together a petty crook working under the table as a taxi driver and a famous concert pianist. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Le rouge est mis AKA Speaking of Murder (1957) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Marcel Bozzuffi
Louis Bertain, a respectable garage owner by day, is the head of a band of notorious crooks by night. Read More »
Brothers in Law (1957) Roy Boulting, Henry B. Longhurst, Edith Sharpe, Ian Carmichael
Newly qualified barrister Roger Thursby joins his flatmate as a trainee at a London law firm. Read More »
Si muero antes de despertar AKA If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952) Carlos Hugo Christensen, Néstor Zavarce, Blanca del Prado, Floren Delbene
The plot centers on Lucio Santana, a lovable prankster and class clown whose dad happens to be a detective Read More »
The Perfect Furlough (1958) Blake Edwards, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn
To pacify 104 sex-starved male soldiers building an Arctic radar base Read More »
Give a Girl a Break (1953) Stanley Donen, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds
The star of an upcoming Broadway production, Janet Hallson, walks out during rehersals. Read More »
Luci del varietà AKA Variety Lights (1950) Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, Giulietta Masina
When a young woman of beauty and talent joins a provincial vaudeville troupe, they’re suddenly playing to packed houses Read More »
Little Big Horn (1951) Charles Marquis Warren, Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland, Marie Windsor
In 1876, during the Great Sioux Wars, U.S. Cavalry Capt. Phillip Donlin serves at Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Montana Territory. Read More »
Everything I Have Is Yours (1952) Robert Z. Leonard, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Dennis O’Keefe
Pregnancy forces one half of a married song- and- dance team to find a new Broadway partner. Read More »
Bonnes à tuer AKA One Step to Eternity (1954) Henri Decoin, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Auclair, Corinne Calvet
Francois Roques, a power-and-money-mad editor of a Paris newspaper Read More »
The Lion and the Horse (1952) Louis King, Steve Cochran, Wildfire the Horse, Ray Teal
B-Feature western, a cowboy who snared a wild stallion & sells it to a cruel rodeo owner attempts to buy the horse back. Read More »
La strada (1954) Federico Fellini, Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart
Sad story of a waif, Gelsomina, who is sold by her mother to Zampano for 10,000 lire and a few kilos of food. Read More »
The Day of the Trumpet AKA Cavalry Command (1958) Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero, John Agar, Pancho Magalona, Alicia Vergel
An American cavalry brigade is sent to occupy a small Filipino village in 1902 and quell guerilla resistance in the surrounding jungle. Read More »
Botany Bay (1952) John Farrow, Alan Ladd, James Mason, Patricia Medina
In 1787 prisoners from London’s Newgate Gaol are to be shipped to New South Wales. Read More »
Reach for the Sky (1956) Lewis Gilbert, Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 Read More »