In this British detective yarn, a Yankee sleuth teams up with Scotland Yard to catch the culprits behind a successful counterfeiting ring. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Three Murderesses (1959) Michel Boisrond, Alain Delon, Mylène Demongeot, Pascale Petit
Julien turns up at one of his former girlfriends’ wedding; she is marrying an “old man”. Read More »
Li’l Abner (1959) Melvin Frank, Leslie Parrish, Stubby Kaye, Peter Palmer
As Sadie Hawkins Day approaches, Daisy Mae hopes to win the hand of Li’l Abner by catching him in the traditional race. Read More »
Let’s Make It Legal (1951) Richard Sale, Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Zachary Scott
The divorce of Hugh and Miriam Halsworth becomes final at midnight. Read More »
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) David Lean, William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
This movie deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Read More »
The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958) Gordon Douglas, Hugh O’Brian, Robert Evans, Dolores Michaels
In this western remake of Kiss of Death (1947), a convicted bank robber serving his sentence Read More »
The Man Upstairs (1958) Don Chaffey, Bernard Lee, Richard Attenborough, Donald Houston
John Wilson is troubled with pain and and an inability to sleep. Read More »
The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) André De Toth, Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon
Having been a spy for Quantrill’s raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man Read More »
Dallas (1950) Stuart Heisler, Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran
After Confederate officer Blayde Hollister’s home and family are destroyed by the Marlowe Brothers during the Civil War Read More »
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957) Sidney Franklin, Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers
Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Read More »
Cardinal Lambertini (1954) Giorgio Pastina, Gino Cervi, Nadia Gray, Arnoldo Foà
In 1739 in Bologna, Archbishop Prospero Lambertini protects the love of Charles and of Countess Isabella Read More »
A Lady Without Passport (1950) Joseph H. Lewis, Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig
There is a problem with foreign nationals using Cuba as a convenient jumping off point for illegal entry into the United States. Read More »
Excuse My Dust (1951) Roy Rowland, Buster Keaton, Red Skelton, Sally Forrest, Macdonald Carey
Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Read More »
Summer with Monika (1953) Ingmar Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen
Harry Lund is a nineteen-year-old man who meets Monika, a romantic, reckless and rebellious seventeen-year-old, and they fall in love. Read More »
The Cheaters (1958) Marcel Carné, Pascale Petit, Andréa Parisy, Jacques Charrier
Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynical and immoral young man. Read More »