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Tag Archives: 1950s
The Baron of Arizona (1950) Samuel Fuller, Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Sokoloff
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. Read More »
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951) Crane Wilbur, Steve Cochran, David Brian, Philip Carey
Another in a unrelated series of Warner’s penitentiary tours in three different decades. Read More »
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Naima Wifstrand, Jullan Kindahl, Max von Sydow
The main character is an orphaned young woman who is about to be married off to an unappealing but rich old man Read More »
Cattle Drive (1951) Kurt Neumann, Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. Read More »
The Venetian (1958) Ingmar Bergman, Folke Sundquist, Eva Stiberg, Maud Hansson
A young beautiful man from Milan arrives at the carnival in Venice. He meets two flirtatious women. Read More »
Wichita (1955) Jacques Tourneur, Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. Read More »
Vice Dolls (1954) Raoul André, Nicole Courcel, Philippe Lemaire, Maria Mauban
An adventuress and a swindler use an apartment to set up a profitable network of call girls. Read More »
Giant of Marathon (1959) Jacques Tourneur, Bruno Vailati, Steve Reeves, Mylène Demongeot, Sergio Fantoni
This classical peplum tells a fictitious story set in 490 BC, the time of the Medic Wars during which Persian armies sweep the Ancient world. Read More »
The Warrior and the Slave Girl (1958) Vittorio Cottafavi, Gianna Maria Canale, Ettore Manni, Mara Cruz
Marcus Numidius (Ettore Manni), a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators’ revolt Read More »
Futures vedettes (1955) Marc Allégret, Jean Marais, Brigitte Bardot, Isabelle Pia
At the Conservatory of Vienna the student only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor Eric Walter. Read More »
Poison Ivy (1953) Bernard Borderie, Eddie Constantine, Dominique Wilms, Howard Vernon
Two million dollars have vanished into thin air. Lemmy Caution, an American agent, is assigned by the FBI to investigate in Casablanca. Read More »
Barnacle Bill (1957) Charles Frend, Alec Guinness, Harry Locke, Frederick Piper
Captain Ambrose comes from a long line of distinguished sailors…but is all too susceptible to seasickness. Read More »
Merry-Go-Round (1956) Zoltán Fábri, Mari Töröcsik, Imre Soós, Ádám Szirtes
In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Read More »
Sins of Rome (1953) Riccardo Freda, Massimo Girotti, Ludmilla Tchérina, Yves Vincent
74 B.C. Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Read More »