Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Footsteps in the Fog (1955) Arthur Lubin, Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers
To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Read More »
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kokinji Katsura
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army Read More »
Blues Busters (1950) William Beaudine, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Adele Jergens
After undergoing a throat operation, Sach discovers that he now possesses a beautiful singing voice. Read More »
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima
In the World War II, the pacifist and humanist Japanese Kaji accepts to travel with his wife Michiko to the tiny Manchurian village Loh Hu Liong Read More »
With a Song in My Heart (1952) Walter Lang, Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne
Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Read More »
Hotel Sahara (1951) Ken Annakin, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov, David Tomlinson
During World War Two, Emad and Yasmin are the proprietors of a desert hotel caught between the various waring sides. Read More »
Son of Paleface (1952) Frank Tashlin, Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers
Junior Potter returns to claim his father’s gold, which is nowhere to be found. Read More »
The Fox of Paris (1957) Paul May, Martin Held, Marianne Koch, Hardy Krüger
One of the few WW2 films that indeed had something to tell. And probably it still has to tell something, as it concerns a subject that is not very well publicly known. Read More »
The Bitter Stems (1956) Fernando Ayala, Carlos Cores, Aída Luz, Julia Sandoval
A deep-seated inferiority complex leads a Buenos Aires newspaper reporter (Carlos Cores) into a seemingly innocent correspondence-school scheme Read More »
Dangerous Exile (1957) Brian Desmond Hurst, Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Keith Michell
During the French Revolution, a French nobleman saves the 10-year-old son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette from the guillotine with the help of an English woman. Read More »
Time Limit (1957) Karl Malden, Richard Widmark, Richard Basehart, Dolores Michaels
Military investigator Colonel William Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Harry Cargill, a Korean War prisoner of war who is accused of aiding the enemy. Read More »
The Wild Party (1956) Harry Horner, Anthony Quinn, Carol Ohmart, Arthur Franz
A night of terror in a sleazy nightspot, when an over-the-hill football star holds a thrill-seeking couple captive. Read More »
The Doctor of Stalingrad AKA Der Arzt von Stalingrad (1958) Géza von Radványi, O.E. Hasse, Eva Bartok, Hannes Messemer
After Stalingrad battle battalions of German prisoners were taken to concentration camps. Read More »
Mad at the World (1955) Harry Essex, Frank Lovejoy, Keefe Brasselle, Cathy O’Donnell
The infant baby of Sam and Anne Bennett is critically hurt after been hit by a bottle thrown by a gang of juvenile-delinquent hoodlums known as the Wolf Pack. Read More »