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Tag Archives: 1950s
Walk the Dark Street (1956) Wyott Ordung, Chuck Connors, Don Ross, Regina Gleason, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Dan (Don Ross) returns to L.A. having fought in the Korean War. He meets with Frank (Chuck Connors) the brother of Tommy who was one of the men killed under Dan’s command. Read More »
Shield for Murder (1954) Howard W. Koch, Edmond O’Brien, John Agar, Marla English, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A vicious cop kills a bookie’s runner and steals $25,000 from the corpse. He then frames everyone in sight in order to keep the money to buy a new home for his would-be lounge singer girlfriend. Read More »
Damen i svart / The Lady in Black (1958) Arne Mattsson, Anita Björk, Annalisa Ericson, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Mystery, Thriller
The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa’s lives with her husband. Read More »
Oregon Passage (1957) Paul Landres, John Ericson, Lola Albright, Toni Gerry, Western, Action, Drama, History
Young Cavalry lieutenant Niles Ord sets out to peacefully capture renegade Shoshone chief Black Eagle. Read More »
Callaway Went Thataway (1951) Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel, Comedy, Western
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. Read More »
Rebel in Town (1956) Alfred L. Werker, John Payne, Ruth Roman, J. Carrol Naish, Western
Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Read More »
The Strip (1951) László Kardos, Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Musical
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder. Read More »
Quicksand (1950) Irving Pichel, Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
Motor mechanic Dan Brady lacks funds for a heavy date with new waitress Vera, the type whose life’s ambition is a fur coat Read More »
Drive a Crooked Road (1954) Richard Quine, Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Eddie Shannon is an undersized, sports-car mechanic who dreams of racing an expensive car in a European meet. Read More »
Drango (1957) Hall Bartlett, Jules Bricken, Jeff Chandler, Joanne Dru, Julie London, Western
Major Clint Drango of the U.S. Army and his aide, Capt. Marc Banning, ride into a burned-out Georgia town shortly after the end of the Civil War with orders to set up a military governorship. Read More »
Sudden Fear (1952) David Miller, Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Film-Noir, Thriller
After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.
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The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) Anthony Asquith, Michael Redgrave, Richard Wattis, Michael Denison, Comedy, Drama
Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are two men that are both pretending to be someone they are not.
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Foxfire (1955) Joseph Pevney, Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler, Dan Duryea, Drama, Romance
Amanda Dartland accompanies her half-Apache husband Jonathan to a mining community where he will supervise the excavation of an almost mythical Apache treasure. Read More »
Because of You (1952) Joseph Pevney, Loretta Young, Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Drama, Romance
Blonde ‘doll’ Christine Carroll finds too late that her fiancée Mike is a gangster and she’s his unwitting accessory. Read More »