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Tag Archives: 1950s
Two Suspicious People (1950) Tancred Ibsen, Peter Lindgren, Ivar Svendsen, Britta Lech-Hanssen
The movie is based on a documentary-crime novel by author Gunnar Larsen written in 1933, which in turn was based on a true story that shocked Norway. Read More »
A Wicked Woman (1958) Nobuo Nakagawa, Katsuko Wakasugi, Jûzaburô Akechi, Tetsurô Tanba
In 1870’s Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. Read More »
Loser Takes All (1956) Ken Annakin, Glynis Johns, Rossano Brazzi, Robert Morley
Bertrand is an accountant employed by a large London firm. Read More »
The Brain from Planet Arous (1957) Nathan Juran, John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller
Gor, a powerful criminal brain from the planet Arous, assumes the body of scientist Steve March. Read More »
The Mysterians (1957) Ishirô Honda, Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kôchi
Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on. Read More »
A Geisha (1953) Kenji Mizoguchi, Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu
In the post-war, the sixteen year-old teenager Eiko seeks out the geisha Miyoharu in the district of Gion Read More »
The Toughest Man Alive (1955) Sidney Salkow, Dane Clark, Lita Milan, Anthony Caruso
A U.S. agent diguises himself as a gunrunner to smash an international smuggling ring. Read More »
Rome 11:00 (1952) Giuseppe De Santis, Lucia Bosé, Carla Del Poggio, Maria Grazia Francia
Based on an actual incident, this is the story of five girls (told in a slow beginning) who are among the 200 women Read More »
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1955) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Albin Skoda, Oskar Werner, Lotte Tobisch
This war drama film is a German-Austrian project in black-and-white and released in 1955. Read More »
Wide Boy (1952) Ken Hughes, Sydney Tafler, Susan Shaw, Ronald Howard
The title, in British police parlance of the day, defines a petty crook whose criminal activities are minor and legal-borderline Read More »
Wheel of Fate (1953) Francis Searle, Patric Doonan, Sandra Dorne, Bryan Forbes
Two brothers work in their invalid father’s repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. Read More »
The Runaway Bus (1954) Val Guest, Marianne Stone, Lionel Murton, Lisa Gastoni
When heavy fog prevents all aircraft from leaving London airport, a group of passengers take an airline bus Read More »
Lady Paname (1950) Henri Jeanson, Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Henri Guisol
Paris, 1925. A young woman, Caprice, has great ambitions of becoming a famous music hall singer Read More »
Happy Ever After (1954) Mario Zampi, David Niven, Yvonne De Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald
The whole village mourns when General O’Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. Read More »