In the Mediterranean in 1941 the Italians start using underwater chariots to mine the undersides of allied ships. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Jet Attack (1958) Edward L. Cahn, John Agar, Audrey Totter, Gregory Walcott
Three American pilots are shot down behind enemy lines during the Korean war Read More »
Man on the Tracks (1957) Andrzej Munk, Kazimierz Opalinski, Zygmunt Maciejewski, Zygmunt Zintel
In 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. Read More »
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) Russell Rouse, Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George Read More »
A Lawless Street (1955) Joseph H. Lewis, Randolph Scott, Angela Lansbury, Warner Anderson
Up until its surisingly mundane finale, A Lawless Street is one of the best of the Randolph Scott westerns of the 1950s. Read More »
Womans World (1954) Jean Negulesco, Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Clifton Webb
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive’s wife is crucial to her husband’s success Read More »
Friendly Persuasion (1956) William Wyler, Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religous sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. Read More »
Sabrina (1954) Billy Wilder, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Read More »
The Wind, Woman and Road (1958) Tai Katô, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Rentarô Mikuni, Satomi Oka
A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity Read More »
On the Waterfront (1954) Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly Read More »
Forbidden Games (1952) René Clément, Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée
A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. Read More »
Barbados Quest (1955) Bernard Knowles, Tom Conway, Delphi Lawrence, Brian Worth
J. D. Everleigh, a wealthy American, purchases a rare stamp in London from Geoffrey Blake, who says he represents Robert Coburn, a stamp agent. Read More »
Man in the Attic (1953) Hugo Fregonese, Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade Read More »
Smiley (1956) Anthony Kimmins, Colin Petersen, Bruce Archer, Ralph Richardson
Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. Read More »
Riders to the Stars (1954) Richard Carlson, Herbert L. Strock, William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall
In an attempt to discover the composition of meteors, three astronauts are sent out into space Read More »