France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Garden of Eden (1954) Max Nosseck, Mickey Knox, Jamie O’Hara, Karen Sue Trent
War widow and pre-teen daughter leave home of tyrannical father-in-law in Florida Read More »
Crazed Fruit (1956) Kô Nakahira, Yûjirô Ishihara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara
Bored rich kids. Natsuhisa, 20, constantly teases his brother Haruji, 16, about girls. Read More »
Warlock (1959) Edward Dmytryk, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn
In the small frontier mining town of Warlock, rancher Abe McQuown’s gang of cowboy Read More »
The Holly and the Ivy (1952) George More O’Ferrall, Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton
A heartwarming tale of an English minister and his family reunited at Christmas time. Read More »
The Magnet (1950) Charles Frend, Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox
A mixture of a psychological study of a ten-year-old boy, an English domestic comedy Read More »
The Fighting Lawman (1953) Thomas Carr, Wayne Morris, Virginia Grey, John Kellogg
Deputy U. S. Marshal Jim Burke, stationed in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1886, follows the trail of four bank robbers Read More »
Room to Let (1950) Godfrey Grayson, Jimmy Hanley, Valentine Dyall, Christine Silver
In London in 1904, neighbours begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may in fact be the infamous Jack the Ripper. Read More »
Reform School Girl (1957) Edward Bernds, Gloria Castillo, Ross Ford, Edd Byrnes
A young man steals a car and ends up involved in a pedestrian fatality. Read More »
Once a Sinner (1950) Lewis Gilbert, Pat Kirkwood, Jack Watling, Joy Shelton
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross (Jack Watling) is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James (Pat Kirkwood). Read More »
The Eternal Sea (1955) John H. Auer, Sterling Hayden, Alexis Smith, Ben Cooper
Biopic of Rear Adm. John M. Hoskins, U.S. Navy. During World War Two, U.S. Navy Capt. John Madison Hoskins Read More »
The Last Wagon (1956) Delmer Daves, Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner
When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd Read More »
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Set in the last few years of the shogun’s rule, this period/ensemble movie depicts the lives of the young and the restless at a whorehouse. Read More »
Operation Bullshine (1959) Gilbert Gunn, Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray, Carole Lesley
During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery Read More »
The Silver Whip (1953) Harmon Jones, Dale Robertson, Rory Calhoun, Robert Wagner
Race Crim, a stagecoach guard, persuades the line’s superintendent to allow young Jess Harker Read More »