Former dance hall girl Lorna, masquerading as a lady, meets and marries Confederate ex-officer Colt Saunders, returning to his rich Texas ranch. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
La beauté du diable / Beauty and the Devil (1950) René Clair, Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Professor Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as an alchemist in a circa-1700 university, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets of nature Read More »
Big House, U.S.A. (1955) Howard W. Koch, Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Reed Hadley, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
When young Danny Lambert runs away from camp in south-central Colorado, he becomes the object of a park-wide-search by his wealthy father Robertson Lambert. Read More »
Porgy and Bess (1959) Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Drama, Musical, Romance
In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina Read More »
36 Hours (1953) Montgomery Tully, Dan Duryea, Elsie Albiin, Gudrun Ure, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Bill Rogers, an American pilot taking special training in the States, gets an unauthorized hop to England to pay a surprise visit his beautiful Norwegian wife. Read More »
Serenade (1956) Anthony Mann, Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel, Drama, Music, Romance
Damon Vincenti, a young vineyard worker, has a beautiful tenor voice and dreams of becoming a great opera singer. Read More »
Ai margini della metropoli (1953) Carlo Lizzani, Massimo Mida, Massimo Girotti, Marina Berti, Giulietta Masina, Crime, Drama
Mario Ilari, a young unemployed worker, is wrongly accused of killing a girl, friend of his. Read More »
Broken Lance (1954) Edward Dmytryk, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Adventure, Western
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Read More »
This Earth is Mine (1959) Henry King, Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Claude Rains, Drama
In 1931, Elizabeth Rambeau comes from England to live in California with her aunt and uncle of a winemaking dynasty, who are still wealthy despite 12 years of Prohibition. Read More »
The Hoodlum (1951) Max Nosseck, Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts, Marjorie Riordan, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Vincent Lubeck is a vicious ex-convict. His criminal activities are despised by his family, but he uses and abuses them in the course of his crimes. Read More »
Skirts Ahoy! (1952) Sidney Lanfield, Esther Williams, Joan Evans, Vivian Blaine, Comedy, Musical
Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn’t long marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life.
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Affair in Reno (1957) R.G. Springsteen, John Lund, Doris Singleton, John Archer, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Gloria Hall, an irresponsible heiress, is in Reno for her second divorce, and falls for Tony Lamarr, a fortune-hunting gambler and casino owner. Read More »
The Strange Awakening (1958) Montgomery Tully, Lex Barker, Carole Mathews, Lisa Gastoni, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Peter Chance, a motorist, is stopped and attacked by a hitchhiker somewhere in the south of France. Read More »
Carrington V.C. (1954) Anthony Asquith, David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Noelle Middleton, Drama, War
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven), is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe, he also face two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. Read More »
Il cammino della speranza / The Path of Hope (1950) Pietro Germi, Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi, Saro Urzì, Drama, Adventure
Women wait anxiously at a minehead in Capodarso, Sicily. Their men are underground. The mine is closing and the miners refuse to come up unless the owner relents. Read More »