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Tag Archives: 1950s
Armored Car Robbery (1950) Richard Fleischer, Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman
Dave Purvis takes pride in being unknown to the law, though famed among fellow crooks Read More »
Spionage (1955) Franz Antel, Ewald Balser, Barbara Rütting, Gerhard Riedmann
Oberst Alfred Redl heads the military intelligence department of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Read More »
Carnival in Moscow (1956) Eldar Ryazanov, Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Yuri Belov
This Russian musical manages to satirize Soviet life without ever offending the Politburo. Read More »
I’ll Get By (1950) Richard Sale, June Haver, William Lundigan, Gloria DeHaven
Updated version of “Tin Pan Alley” concerns two songwriters Read More »
Flesh and the Woman (1954) Robert Siodmak, Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Claude Pascal, Arletty
Pierre Martel is a brilliant lawyer in Paris who has fallen in love with a ravishing Italian girl Read More »
Love in the Afternoon (1957) Billy Wilder, Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
In Paris, detective Claude Chavasse is hired to follow a wife suspected of infidelity with the notorious American libertine Frank Flannagan. Read More »
Donne proibite (1954) Giuseppe Amato, Linda Darnell, Valentina Cortese, Lea Padovani
Tamara, a Roman prostitute, tries to kill herself throwing herself out of the window of the licensed brothel she works in. Read More »
The River’s Edge (1957) Allan Dwan, Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget
A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico. Read More »
Witness in the City (1959) Édouard Molinaro, Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Franco Fabrizi
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Read More »
125 rue Montmartre (1959) Gilles Grangier, Lino Ventura, Andréa Parisy, Robert Hirsch
Pascal (Lino Ventura) sells newspapers. He is a simple man who one day resting Read More »
Raintree County (1957) Edward Dmytryk, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint
An abolitionist John Wickliff Shawnessy drifts away from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither Read More »
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959) Riccardo Freda, John Merivale, Didi Sullivan, Gérard Herter
Archaeologists investigating some Mayan ruins come across a blob-like monster. Read More »
The Long Dark Hall (1951) Reginald Beck, Anthony Bushell, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Tania Heald
Arthur Groome works in London and has a devoted family in Richmond. Read More »
Nana (1955) Christian-Jaque, Charles Boyer, Martine Carol, Walter Chiari
Nana, the protagonist is a woman starting from absolute poverty managed to climb the social ladder to the highest echelons. Read More »