In this beautifully shot, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Too Young to Kiss (1951) Robert Z. Leonard, June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young
Eric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. Read More »
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) Walter Lang, Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain
“Cheaper By the Dozen”, based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island to Montclair, New Jersey Read More »
Dont Give Up the Ship (1959) Norman Taurog, Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill, Diana Spencer
John Paul Steckler was the Junior Officer aboard a destroyer when WWII ended. He gets stuck with the job of sailing the ship to the states to be decommissioned. Read More »
The Crooked Web (1955) Nathan Juran, Frank Lovejoy, Mari Blanchard, Richard Denning
Cafe owner Stan Fabian joins Joanie Daniel and her “brother” Frank in a scheme to unearth a “fortune in stolen gold buried by Frank” in Germany during World War II Read More »
The Happy Time (1952) Richard Fleischer, Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan, Marsha Hunt
Spring inspires lessons in love and life for a French family in 1920s Ottawa, especially for teenage Robert Read More »
Apache Drums (1951) Hugo Fregonese, Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, Willard Parker
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches. Read More »
He Laughed Last (1956) Blake Edwards, Frankie Laine, Lucy Marlow, Anthony Dexter
In this amiable imitation Guys and Dolls, Alan Reed plays a big-time 1920s gangster who is rubbed out by his enemies. Read More »
Panic in the Streets (1950) Elia Kazan, Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
When a body is found in the New Orleans docks, it’s pretty obvious that he died from gun shot wounds. Read More »
Take Care of My Little Girl (1951) Jean Negulesco, Jeanne Crain, Dale Robertson, Mitzi Gaynor
A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing. Read More »
Violent Summer (1959) Valerio Zurlini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lilla Brignone
Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Read More »
Theres No Business Like Show Business (1954) Walter Lang, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O’Connor
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart. Read More »
Walking My Baby Back Home (1953) Lloyd Bacon, Donald O’Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy Hackett
World War II veteran Clarence “Jigger” Millard forms a band with several other former GIs. Read More »
Canaris (1954) Alfred Weidenmann, O.E. Hasse, Barbara Rütting, Adrian Hoven
Admiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants for new developments. Read More »
The Blue Veil (1951) Curtis Bernhardt, Busby Berkeley, Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell
Louise Mason is a young widow who fills her empty life with the task of becoming a children’s nurse. Read More »