Strictly Dishonorable is a musicalized version of Preston Sturges’ cynical Broadway comedy of the same title, previously filmed sans songs in 1931. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The 27th Day (1957) William Asher, Gene Barry, Valerie French, George Voskovec, Sci-Fi
Five individuals from five nations, including the “Superpowers,” USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien spacecraft. Read More »
The Sun Also Rises (1957) Henry King, Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, Drama
Paris in the 1920s. The American journalist Jake and his friends spend the time at cafés. Read More »
The Young Captives (1959) Irvin Kershner, Steven Marlo, Luana Patten, Tom Selden, Crime, Drama
Teen-age sweethearts, Benjie Whitney and Ann Howel, decide to elope to Mexico. Read More »
Treasure Island (1950) Byron Haskin, Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Adventure, Family
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Read More »
The Unknown Man (1951) Richard Thorpe, Walter Pidgeon, Ann Harding, Barry Sullivan, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Prominent attorney Brad Mason takes on the defense of Rudi Walchek, a young hit-man hoodlum accused of murder. Read More »
Storm Fear (1955) Cornel WildeJean Wallace, Dan Duryea, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
After being wounded by a bullet, bank robber Charlie Blake seeks shelter with his gang at his brother’s mountain retreat. Read More »
Oklahoma! (1955) Fred Zinnemann, Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with an evil ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love. Read More »
Three Cases of Murder (1955) David Eady, George More O’Ferrall, Orson Welles, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars, Crime, Mystery, Drama, Horror, Fantasy
Three stories of murder and the supernatural. In the first, a museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. Read More »
Adventure in the Hopfields (1954) John Guillermin, Mandy Miller, Hilda Fenemore, Russell Waters, Adventure, Family
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother’s favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it. Read More »
The Missing Scientists (1955) Steve Sekely, Paul Campbell, Irene Papas, Kurt Kreuger, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Two international atomic scientists working in London go missing in mysterious circumstances. Read More »
Gun for a Coward (1957) Abner Biberman, Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule, Western
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice Read More »
Theodora, Slave Empress (1954) Riccardo Freda, Georges Marchal, Gianna Maria Canale, Renato Baldini, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. Read More »
Woman in Hiding (1950) Michael Gordon, Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
Deborah Chandler’s rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies: did he fall or was he pushed? Read More »
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Elia Kazan, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Drama
Blanche is in real need of a protector at this stage in her life when circumstances lead her into paying a visit to her younger sister Stella in New Orleans. Read More »