Fed up with his wife Blandine, an alcoholic shrew, Paul Braconnier decides to get rid of her. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Who Goes There! (1952) Anthony Kimmins, Nigel Patrick, Valerie Hobson, Peggy Cummins
“Five-Sided Triangle”, while geometrically incorrect, might be a better title for this film that the two it has. Read More »
Rosaura at 10 O’Clock (1958) Mario Soffici, Juan Verdaguer, Susana Campos, María Luisa Robledo
Out of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. Read More »
The Limping Man (1953) Cy Endfield, Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister, Alan Wheatley
American Frank Pryor (Lloyd Bridges)) arrives in London to take up an interrupted romance Read More »
A Game of Chance (1951) Guru Dutt, Dev Anand, Geeta Bali, Kalpana Kartik
Madan comes from a poor family background. Unable to find employment, he takes to gambling in a big way. Read More »
The Belle of New York (1952) Charles Walters, Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main
In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. Read More »
How to Make a Monster (1958) Herbert L. Strock, Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway
Accomplished but eccentric movie make-up artist Pete Dumond has been with the studio for decades Read More »
Father’s Doing Fine (1952) Henry Cass, Heather Thatcher, Diane Hart, Virginia McKenna
Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home Read More »
The Sad Sack (1957) George Marshall, Jerry Lewis, Phyllis Kirk, David Wayne
Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. Read More »
Blood of Dracula (1957) Herbert L. Strock, Sandra Harrison, Louise Lewis, Gail Ganley
In a girl’s boarding school, science teacher, Miss Branding, tests her theory that there is power Read More »
The Good Beginning (1953) Gilbert Gunn, John Fraser, Eileen Moore, Peter Reynolds
A struggling pen-pusher and his wife envy the casual, live-now-pay-later lifestyle of their irresponsible friends. Read More »
The Delavine Affair (1955) Douglas Peirce, Peter Reynolds, Honor Blackman, Gordon Jackson
The Delavine Affair is a jewel robbery orchestrated by a particularly vicious criminal gang. Read More »
The Whip Hand (1951) William Cameron Menzies, Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier
Matt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota Read More »
Street of Shadows (1953) Richard Vernon, Cesar Romero, Kay Kendall, Edward Underdown
Luigi (Cesar Romero)is the owner of a pin-table saloon frequented by questionable characters and kept under constant police surveillance. Read More »
Picnic (1955) Joshua Logan, William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field
The morning of a small town Labor Day picnic, a drifter (Hal Carter) Read More »