A shipwrecked lass sets up housekeeping on a desert island and rescues female native from certain doom, thereby winning herself a Girl Friday. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) Raoul Walsh, Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty
In 1807, Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship the HMS Lydia on a perilous voyage around Cape Horn and into the Pacific. Read More »
Remains to Be Seen (1953) Don Weis, June Allyson, Van Johnson, Louis Calhern
June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a murder is committed. Read More »
The Crimson Pirate (1952) Robert Siodmak, Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. Read More »
Confidentially Connie (1953) Edward Buzzell, Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor Read More »
She Couldnt Say No (1954) Lloyd Bacon, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt
As usual with most of the RKO films from this era “presented” by RKO-owner Howard Hughes, Read More »
The Story of Three Loves (1953) Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron
Three loosely connected love stories. The first story: Paula is a talented dancer who cannot truly live unless she dances. Read More »
The Green Glove (1952) Rudolph Maté, Glenn Ford, Geraldine Brooks, Cedric Hardwicke
In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona Read More »
One Way Street (1950) Hugo Fregonese, James Mason, Märta Torén, Dan Duryea
Shortly after a bank robbery, gangster John Wheeler and his henchmen hide in a small apartment, awaiting for the rest of the gang to arrive. Read More »
Montparnasse 19 (1958) Jacques Becker, Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani
Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Read More »
The Secret Place (1957) Clive Donner, Belinda Lee, Ronald Lewis, Michael Brooke
A beautiful redhead becomes involved with a smalltime gang of hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery. Read More »
Bengazi (1955) John Brahm, Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen, Richard Carlson
An American with a shady past, John Gilmore and an Irishman without a conscience, Robert Emmett Donovan Read More »
Interrupted Melody (1955) Curtis Bernhardt, Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore
Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. Read More »
Bring Your Smile Along (1955) Blake Edwards, Frankie Laine, Keefe Brasselle, Constance Towers
Nancy Willows (Constance Towers), pretty blonde high school teacher, writes song lyrics which spark the careers of struggling young pianist-composer Martin Adams (Keefe Brasselle’) Read More »
Silk Stockings (1957) Rouben Mamoulian, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige
A musical remake of Ninotchka: After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris Read More »