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Tag Archives: 1950s
The Toy Tiger (1956) Jerry Hopper, Jeff Chandler, Laraine Day, Tim Hovey, Comedy
Advertising executive Gwen Taylor sends her art director Rick Todd on a mission to bring an artist back to the commercial fold. Read More »
Deported (1950) Robert Siodmak, Märta Torén, Jeff Chandler, Claude Dauphin, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Read More »
Cita imposible (1958) Antonio Santillán, Beni Deus, Claudine Dupuis, Juanita Espín, Crime, Drama
When Rosario is released from a one year prison sentence in Barcelona women’s detention center, she is determined to prove her innocence. Read More »
Rikollinen nainen / A Woman of Crime (1952) Teuvo Tulio, Regina Linnanheimo, Eija Karipää, Tauno Majuri, Drama, Romance
Regina Linnanheimo plays Eeva, a happy and spirited lady who is being courted by two gentlemen. Read More »
China Venture (1953) Don Siegel, Edmond O’Brien, Barry Sullivan, Jocelyn Brando, Adventure, Drama, War
An American patrol was sent during World War II to the south of China which was occupied by Japanese troops with the order to rescue a prisoner of the Chinese guerilla. Read More »
Strange Intruder (1956) Irving Rapper, Edmund Purdom, Ida Lupino, Mimi Gibson, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
During the Korean War, a soldier promises his dying buddy that he’ll look after the man’s family when he gets home. He winds up getting more than he bargained for. Read More »
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) Richard Fleischer, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In 1866, Professor Pierre M. Aronnax (Paul Lukas) and his assistant Conseil (Peter Lorre), stranded in San Francisco by reports of a giant sea monster attacking ships in the Pacific Ocean, are invited to join an expedition to search for the creature. Read More »
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) Don Siegel, Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Producer Walter Wanger, who had just been released from a prison term after shooting a man he believed was having an affair with his wife, wanted to make a film about the appalling conditions he saw while he was incarcerated. Read More »
Beachhead (1954) Stuart Heisler, Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, War, Drama
On a Japanese-occupied island during World War II, only two soldiers remain alive after a mission attempt goes horribly wrong. Read More »
The Teckman Mystery (1954) Wendy Toye, Margaret Leighton, John Justin, Roland Culver, Mystery
A biographer researching a book on a pilot who died during the test flight of a new plane falls in love with the pilot’s sister. Read More »
Hound-Dog Man (1959) Don Siegel, Fabian, Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Comedy, Drama
A rustic drama set in the early 20th century, Hound Dog Man is the simple story of a young man, Spud Kinney (Dennis Holmes) constantly in hot water for disobeying his mother (Betty Field). Read More »
The Big Bluff (1955) W. Lee Wilder, John Bromfield, Martha Vickers, Robert Hutton, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When scheming fortune hunter and erstwhile Latin lover Ricardo De Villa learns that a wealthy but sickly widow has terminal heart disease, he seduces and marries the vulnerable millionairess. Read More »
Finger Man (1955) Harold D. Schuster, Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Treasury agents, desperate to get evidence on syndicate kingpin Dutch Becker, give ex-con hood Casey Martin a choice…life in prison or courting sudden death as a government ‘finger man.’ Read More »
The Big Fisherman (1959) Frank Borzage, John Saxon, Howard Keel, Susan Kohner, Drama, History
Howard Keel stars as a stalwart Simon-Peter, the apostle of Christ called “the fisher of men” and the “Rock” upon whom the Christian Church was founded. Read More »