The middle age bon-vivant Max is a former gangster and close friend of his partner Riton. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Doctor at Large (1957) Ralph Thomas, Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Donald Sinden, Comedy
Dr. Sparrow graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind not cash Read More »
Yukon Gold (1952) Frank McDonald, William Beaudine, Kirby Grant, Chinook, Martha Hyer, Action, Adventure, Western
Corporal Rod Webb (Kirby Grant)of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police follows a murder trail deep into the Klondike. Read More »
Jeanne Eagels (1957) George Sidney, Kim Novak, Jeff Chandler, Agnes Moorehead, Biography, Drama, Romance
A largely fictionalized account of the career of actress Jeanne Eagels, whose fame was both on stage and on the screen in the 1910s and 1920s, is presented. Read More »
Those Redheads from Seattle (1953) Lewis R. Foster, Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry, Agnes Moorehead, Musical, Western
A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Dawson City Yukon during the Gold Rush to find their fortune. Read More »
Womaneater (1958) Charles Saunders, George Coulouris, Robert MacKenzie, Norman Claridge, Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist captures women and feeds them to a flesh-eating tree, which in turn gives him a serum that helps bring the dead back to life. Read More »
Swamp Women (1956) Roger Corman, Marie Windsor, Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A plucky police woman infiltrates a group of hardened female criminals who are planning to break jail and retrieve their loot of diamonds from its swampy hiding place. Read More »
Make Me an Offer (1955) Cyril Frankel, Peter Finch, Adrienne Corri, Rosalie Crutchley, Comedy
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items. Read More »
Iron Man (1951) Joseph Pevney, Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Stephen McNally, Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. Read More »
From Here to Eternity (1953) Fred Zinnemann, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Drama, Romance, War
It’s 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. Read More »
Apache (1954) Robert Aldrich, Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire, Western
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. Read More »
Gun Battle at Monterey (1957) Sidney Franklin Jr., Carl K. Hittleman, Sterling Hayden, Pamela Duncan, Ted de Corsia, Romance, Western
Reno and Turner are partners who robbed the express in Monterey. But when Turner wants to leave the partnership, Reno shoots him and leaves him for dead. Read More »
Désirée (1954) Henry Koster, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte Read More »
The Jayhawkers! (1959) Melvin Frank, Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker, Nicole Maurey, Romance, Western
Shortly before the start of the American Civil War rebel Kansas leader Luke Darcy dreams of a new independent Republic of Kansas. Read More »
Thunder in the Sun (1959) Russell Rouse, Susan Hayward, Jeff Chandler, Jacques Bergerac, Action, Adventure, History, Romance, Western
1850 adventure story of the Basque immigrants on their way to California, their struggle with the Indians, and the development of a complicated love triangle. Read More »