An guy and a girl who are working in a carnival’s dunk tank. When inebriated Texan comes to the booth he and the guy starts drinking. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Robbery Under Arms (1957) Jack Lee, Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, David McCallum
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Read More »
Cinerama Holiday (1955) Robert L. Bendick, Philippe De Lacy, John Marsh, Betty Marsh, Fred Troller
Travelogue featuring an American couple traveling in Europe and a European couple traveling in the U.S Read More »
The Tale of the Crucified Lovers (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô
In 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. Read More »
Miss Oyu (1951) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Yûji Hori
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Read More »
Operation Pacific (1951) George Waggner, John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond
The submarine USS Thunderfish successfully completes a secret mission to rescue a group of orphans on a remote Pacific island. Read More »
Fifth District (1958) Julio Coll, Alberto Closas, Arturo Fernández, Jesús Colomer
Five men commit a robbery and flee each by their side. Later they meet in a local to distribute the money. Read More »
Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) Lewis Gilbert, Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner
Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War II. Read More »
Violent Playground (1958) Basil Dearden, Stanley Baker, Anne Heywood, David McCallum
Struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a young and dangerous pyromaniac. Read More »
Forty Guns (1957) Samuel Fuller, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger
An authoritarian rancher, Barbara Stanwyck, who rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. Read More »
River Beat (1954) Guy Green, Phyllis Kirk, John Bentley, Robert Ayres
A London police inspector is patrolling the river looking for smugglers, when he becomes attracted to a woman working as a ship’s radio operator. Read More »
Decameron Nights (1953) Hugo Fregonese, Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Godfrey Tearle
The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio’s own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. Read More »
Great Day in the Morning (1956) Jacques Tourneur, Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman
After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Read More »
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) Jean Delannoy, Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn, Jean Danet
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Read More »
Trouble in the Glen (1954) Herbert Wilcox, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Forrest Tucker
Major Jim “Lance” Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps Read More »