A reluctant soldier, Peter, serves in Italy during WWII. He marries a local girl named Teresa and brings her to the US. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Restless Years (1958) Helmut Käutner, John Saxon, Sandra Dee, Teresa Wright
Will Henderson is the new boy at the high school. He befriends outcast Melinda Grant, whose illegitimacy marks her and her unstable mother. Read More »
Count Three and Pray (1955) George Sherman, Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward, Philip Carey
This laid-back western manages to deliver a full quota of action, an agreeable dash of sentiment, and quite a few three-dimensional characterizations. Read More »
Smoke Signal (1955) Jerry Hopper, Dana Andrews, Piper Laurie, Rex Reason
Capt. Harper’s cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. Read More »
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) Raoul Walsh, Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie
Set in the early ’40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as the second World War has begun to intensify. Read More »
Mystery Junction (1951) Michael McCarthy, Sydney Tafler, Barbara Murray, Martin Benson
Larry Gordon, well-known crime writer, is on a train journey when a scream is heard. Read More »
Hell and High Water (1954) Samuel Fuller, Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen
A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition Read More »
Sunday in August (1950) Luciano Emmer, Anna Baldini, Vera Carmi, Emilio Cigoli
The plot weaves several episodes with several groups of people, Roman families, youth gangs and young love couples, who spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia. Read More »
Magnificent Obsession (1954) Douglas Sirk, Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
Reckless playboy Robert Merrick (Rock Hudson) is in a boat accident, and his condition requires a resuscitator to save his life. Read More »
The Fat Man (1951) William Castle, J. Scott Smart, Julie London, Rock Hudson
An innocent dentist is murdered, the only apparent motive to steal a set of dental x-rays. Read More »
Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue (1953) Harold French, Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures Read More »
Clash by Night (1952) Fritz Lang, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas
The bitter and cynical Mae Doyle returns to the fishing village where she was raised after deceptive loves and life in New York. Read More »
Nancy Goes to Rio (1950) Robert Z. Leonard, Ann Sothern, Jane Powell, Barry Sullivan
A mother and daughter compete over the same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man. Read More »
Mother (1952) Mikio Naruse, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Eiji Okada
Adopted from a prize-winning school essay on the subject of ‘My Mother,’ upon being widowed a mother with Read More »
Gog (1954) Herbert L. Strock, Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall
Scientists working on induced hibernation for space travel are killed, apparently by machines acting independently. Read More »