After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Aparajito (1956) Satyajit Ray, Smaran Ghosal, Kamala Adhikari, Lalchand Banerjee, Drama
After living awhile in Benares, 10 year old Apu and his mother move in with her uncle in a small Bengali village. Read More »
Destination Murder (1950) Edward L. Cahn, Joyce Mackenzie, Stanley Clements, Hurd Hatfield, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Laura Mansfield’s father is killed, apparently by a telegraphic messenger. She spots Jackie Wales in a police lineup, but can’t identify him positively. Read More »
Night Passage (1957) James Neilson, James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
The workers on the railroad haven’t been paid in several months, that’s because Whitey and his gang, including fast-shooting, dangerous Read More »
Les Enfants Terribles (1950) Jean-Pierre Melville, Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Renée Cosima, Drama
In a snowball fight between schoolboys the handsome Dargelos hits the chest of Paul, who drops unconscious to the ground. Read More »
It Happened on July 20th (1955) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Bernhard Wicki, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Carl Wery, Drama, History, Thriller, War
A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed. Read More »
Green Mansions (1959) Mel Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins, Lee J. Cobb, Adventure, Drama, Romance
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. Read More »
This Strange Passion (1953) Luis Buñuel, Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Drama, Romance
Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. Read More »
The Naked Spur (1953) Anthony Mann, James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Thriller, Western
Howard Kemp is a bounty hunter who’s been after killer Ben Vandergroat for a long time. Read More »
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) Gordon Douglas, Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
The FBI infiltrates one of their agents in the US Communist Party. Read More »
Second Chance (1953) Rudolph Maté, Robert Mitchum, Jack Palance, Linda Darnell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Claire Sinclair is hiding in Mexico to avoid testifying against her gangster boyfriend. Read More »
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideki Gôko, Itsuo Watanabe, Makoto Miyagawa, Drama
Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world and their place in it Read More »
The Clouded Yellow (1950) Ralph Thomas, Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Sonia Dresdel, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When Secret Service agent David Somers is fired, he takes a quiet job with the Fentons at their country estate – cataloging butterflies, hence the title insect. Read More »
Big Leaguer (1953) Robert Aldrich, Edward G. Robinson, Vera-Ellen, Jeff Richards, Drama, Family, Sport
John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22 year old hopefuls to pick the best for a minor league contract. Read More »
The Dam Busters (1955) Michael Anderson, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Drama, History, War
The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany’s industrial heart. Read More »