In a POW camp, the Nazis have placed the huts far from the boundary so that any escape tunnel would have to be a long one. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
North by Northwest (1959) Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill finds himself thrust into the world of spies Read More »
The Trouble with Harry (1955) Alfred Hitchcock, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn
There is a dead well-dressed man in a meadow clearing in the hills above a small Vermont town. Read More »
The House in the Woods (1957) Maxwell Munden, Ronald Howard, Patricia Roc, Michael Gough
The spirit of a murdered woman returns to take her revenge. Read More »
Jennifer (1953) Joel Newton, Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, Robert Nichols
Agnes Langsley gets a job, through Jim Hollis, as caretaker of an old and vacated estate. Read More »
Monster on the Campus (1958) Jack Arnold, Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt
A college professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a prehistoric fish. Read More »
The Diplomatic Corpse (1958) Montgomery Tully, Robin Bailey, Susan Shaw, Liam Redmond
London police and reporters from a local newspaper go after a gang of foreign criminals. Read More »
Roman Holiday (1953) William Wyler, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
Joe Bradley is a reporter for the American News Service in Rome, a job he doesn’t much like as he would rather work Read More »
It’s Never Too Late (1956) Michael McCarthy, Phyllis Calvert, Patrick Barr, Susan Stephen
To Laura Hammond’s large family, she is simply the mother who makes all their lives run more smoothly. Read More »
April Fish (1954) Gilles Grangier, Bourvil, Annie Cordy, Jacqueline Noëlle
Emile is a good mechanic whose clientele is very loyal. Read More »
Rosa de Alfama (1953) Henrique Campos, Alberto Ribeiro, Mariana Villar, Alves da Cunha
Alberto Ribeiro and Mariana Villar star in a popular melodrama set in Alfama (neighborhood of Lisbon) Read More »
The Black Scorpion (1957) Edward Ludwig, Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas
Giant scorpions demolish Mexico City. They have been released from underground caverns by a series of volcanic eruptions Read More »
Starlift (1951) Roy Del Ruth, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo
Air Force fliers Rick Williams and Mike Nolan attempt to meet film star Nell Wayne Read More »
The Black Rose (1950) Henry Hathaway, Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry
In the time of the crusades, a Saxon youth is forced to run away from England. Read More »
The Frightened Man (1952) John Gilling, Dermot Walsh, Barbara Murray, Charles Victor
The hidden life of a second-hand dealer inadvertently ensnares his son. Read More »