Buster Keaton leaves his family vaudeville act for the movies. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
08/15 Part 2 (1955) Paul May, O.E. Hasse, Rolf Kutschera, Emmerich Schrenk
Winter 1942: Like thousands of other German soldiers, Asch and Vierbein have ended up at the Eastern front. Read More »
Woman They Almost Lynched (1953) Allan Dwan, John Lund, Brian Donlevy, Audrey Totter
During the Civil War, Border City is a town laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border at the base of the Ozark mountains. Read More »
The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953) Alvin Ganzer, F. Hugh Herbert, Leo Genn, Don Taylor, Gene Barry
In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen Read More »
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) John Sturges, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
After a long career as a lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp decides to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. Read More »
Dragstrip Girl (1957) Edward L. Cahn, Fay Spain, Steven Terrell, John Ashley
Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don’t like either one. Read More »
Tuesday’s Guest (1950) Jacques Deval, Bernard Blier, Michel Auclair, Madeleine Robinson
Charles is a good husband; he is not handsome but he contents himself with his collection of stamps, his slippers and his crepes. Read More »
Tennessee’s Partner (1955) Allan Dwan, John Payne, Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming
A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess Read More »
Private’s Progress (1956) John Boulting, Ian Carmichael, Ronald Adam, Henry B. Longhurst
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. Read More »
Princess of the Nile (1954) Harmon Jones, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie
1249 A.D. Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors Read More »
5 Fingers (1952) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie
Based on a true story. In neutral Turkey during WWII, the ambitious and extremely efficient valet for the British ambassador Read More »
Counterplot (1959) Kurt Neumann, Forrest Tucker, Allison Hayes, Gerald Milton
Man hides out in Puerto Rico from the police and his double-crossing attorney. Read More »
The Earrings of Madame De… (1953) Max Ophüls, Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica
In the Paris of the late 19th century, Louise, wife of a general, sells the earrings her husband gave her as a wedding gift: she needs money to cover her debts. Read More »
His Majesty O’Keefe (1954) Byron Haskin, Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice, André Morell
In 1870, Yankee sea captain O’Keefe finds himself stranded after a mutiny on the Micronesian island of Yap Read More »
Fighting Coast Guard (1951) Joseph Kane, Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, Ella Raines
Bill Rourk, an ex-Coast Guard crew chief, is tricked into volunteering for the Coact Guard Officer’s Training School Read More »