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Tag Archives: 1950s
Something to Live For (1952) George Stevens, Joan Fontaine, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright
An actress becomes an alcoholic after being jilted. She is aided by an Alcoholics Anonymous member with whom she has an affair; however, he is married. Read More »
Summer Clouds (1958) Mikio Naruse, Chikage Awashima, Michiyo Aratama, Kumi Mizuno
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. Read More »
Appointment with a Shadow (1957) Richard Carlson, George Nader, Joanna Moore, Brian Keith
George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. Read More »
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956) Henry Hathaway, Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker
Famed American playwright Phillip Hannon is in London making revisions to his play currently running in the West End. Read More »
Fast Company (1953) John Sturges, Howard Keel, Polly Bergen, Marjorie Main
The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father’s stable, she inherited. Read More »
Plunder of the Sun (1953) John Farrow, Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina
An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist Read More »
Jirocho Fuji (1959) Kazuo Mori, Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizô Ichikawa, Shintarô Katsu
An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made “the ultimate Jirocho movie” about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in the Tokaido area. Read More »
I Was an American Spy (1951) Lesley Selander, Ann Dvorak, Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy
Begins in documentary style when U. S. Army General Mark Clark authenticates Claire Phillips’ adventures and achievements Read More »
Thunder Road (1958) Arthur Ripley, Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon
A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. Read More »
Battle Hymn (1957) Douglas Sirk, Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea
Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Read More »
The Hunchback of Paris (1959) André Hunebelle, Jean Marais, Bourvil, Sabine Sesselmann
Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. Read More »
Trapeze (1956) Carol Reed, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida
Mike Ribble was once a great trapeze artist – and the only to have completed a triple somersault – before his accident. Read More »
The Cranes Are Flying (1957) Mikhail Kalatozov, Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev
As the clouds of war spread over Russia during Germany’s surprise invasion in 1941, the fervent young lovers Read More »
French Cancan (1955) Jean Renoir, Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix
Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) cafe ‘Le Paravent Chinois’ featuring his mistress, belly dancer Lola Read More »