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Tag Archives: 1950s
The Charge at Feather River (1953) Gordon Douglas, Guy Madison, Vera Miles, Frank Lovejoy, Western
The story involves an overland journey through hostile Cheyenne territory to rescue two white women captured by the Cheyenne. Read More »
Lorna Doone (1951) Phil Karlson, Barbara Hale, Richard Greene, Carl Benton Reid, Drama, Romance
Set in 17th century Scotland, a young woman falls in love with a humble villager whose community suffers under the rule of her despotic landowning family. Read More »
The Hanging Tree (1959) Delmer Daves, Karl Malden, Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Western
In 1873, on the Gold Trail, Montana, the mysterious and controlling Dr. Joseph Frail arrives in the small town of Skull Creek with miners in a gold rush. Read More »
You Cant Run Away from It (1956) Dick Powell, June Allyson, Jack Lemmon, Charles Bickford, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Ellen (June Allyson) is kidnapped by father (Charles Bickford) after she ran off and got married to someone he thinks is a gold digger. Read More »
The Unholy Wife (1957) John Farrow, Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Wealthy vintner Paul Hochen meets blonde bombshell Phyllis in a bar…and marries her. In due course, Phyllis is bored by Paul, and finds an exciting new lover in rodeo rider San. Read More »
Cairo Station (1958) Youssef Chahine, Farid Shawqi, Hend Rostom, Crime, Drama
Kinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed by Hannouma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. Read More »
The Boy Who Came Back (1958) Seijun Suzuki, Sachiko Hidari, Akira Kobayashi, Ruriko Asaoka, Drama
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past. Read More »
Son of Sinbad (1955) Ted Tetzlaff, Dale Robertson, Vincent Price, Sally Forrest, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Sinbad was pursuing a secret weapon: Greek Fire. Attributed to the ancient Greeks, it was composed of pitch or bitumen, sulfur, and other ingredients. Read More »
Double Crossbones (1951) Charles Barton, Donald O’Connor, Helena Carter, Will Geer, Adventure, Comedy, History, Musical, Romance
Falsely accused by the corrupt Governor Elden of Charleston of fencing stolen pirate booty, young Davey Crandall and friend Tom Botts buy passage on the ship of local buccaneer Bloodthirsty Ben. Read More »
House of Secrets (1956) Guy Green, Michael Craig, Anton Diffring, Gérard Oury, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ship’s officer Larry Ellis is asked by the CIA to help infiltrate a forgery ring in France as he is almost a double for a dead double-crossing gold courier who worked for the gang. Read More »
The Scarf (1951) Ewald André Dupont, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, James Barton, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
John Barrington escapes from an asylum for the criminally-insane and finds refuge on the ranch of turkey-raiser Ezra Thompson. Read More »
Points and Lines (1958) Tsuneo Kobayashi, Hiroshi Minami, Isao Yamagata, Mieko Takamine, Mystery
A senior detective is determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide. Read More »
The Space Children (1958) Jack Arnold, Michel Ray, Adam Williams, Peggy Webber, Sci-Fi
A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a teleportation beam. Read More »
Suddenly (1954) Lewis Allen, Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw’s unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can’t abide guns and those who use them. Read More »