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Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
Circle of Danger (1951) Jacques Tourneur, Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring
Clay Douglas an American, comes to Britain, to find out the truth behind his brothers death during a commando operation in occupied France. Read More »
A Woman of Mystery (1958) Ernest Morris, Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Jennifer Jayne
Feature writer Ray Savage is assigned to uncover the facts leading to the sudden death of Jayne Hayle. Read More »
Afternoon of the Bulls (1956) Ladislao Vajda, Domingo Ortega, Antonio Bienvenida, María Asquerino
Sellout in the bullring of Las Ventas in Madrid. A luxury poster is about to deal a cattle from Antonio Pérez Tabernero. Read More »
Mexican Manhunt (1953) Rex Bailey, George Brent, Hillary Brooke, Morris Ankrum
Los Angeles, 1953. The author David L. “Dave” Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Read More »
Count Your Blessings (1959) Jean Negulesco, Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, Maurice Chevalier
Grace hastily marries a French aristocrat during WWII, but is separated by circumstance from him for almost nine years. Read More »