The third of five films (Dial Red-O, Sudden Danger, Calling Homicide, Chain of Evidence, and Footsteps in the Night in release order and released across a full period of three years) in which Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Where There’s a Will (1955) Vernon Sewell, Kathleen Harrison, George Cole, Leslie Dwyer, Comedy
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don’t want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown. Read More »
Mask of Dust (1954) Terence Fisher, Richard Conte, Mari Aldon, Peter Illing, Adventure, Action, Drama
Peter Wells, a former world class driver of midget racers, has been struggling to regain his winning form in the two years since his discharge as an Air Force pilot. Read More »
Man from God’s Country (1958) Paul Landres, George Montgomery, Randy Stuart, Gregg Barton, Western
Dan Beattie gives up his lawman job to move further west and rejoin his old war buddy Curt Warren in the town of Sundown. Read More »
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954) Edward Bernds, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Horror, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with the Gravesend Family which has one Creepy Butler Read More »
Let’s Be Happy (1957) Henry Levin, Vera-Ellen, Tony Martin, Robert Flemyng, Comedy, Musical
Twenty-eight year old Jeannie MacLean has led a simple life taking care of her frugal grandfather in the small town of Heatherdale, Vermont. Read More »
Lydia Bailey (1952) Jean Negulesco, Dale Robertson, Anne Francis, Charles Korvin, Action, Adventure, History, Romance, War
A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. Read More »
Trial Without Jury (1950) Philip Ford, Robert Rockwell, Barbra Fuller, Kent Taylor, Crime, Drama
A homicide detective (Robert Rockwell) suspects a playwright who bases his play on a murder. Read More »
The Indian Fighter (1955) André De Toth, Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau, Western
Johnny Hawks, a former Indian fighter, returns to the West after the Civil War. Read More »
It’s a Wonderful World (1956) Val Guest, Terence Morgan, George Cole, Kathleen Harrison, Musical, Comedy
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. Read More »
I Only Arsked! (1958) Montgomery Tully, Bernard Bresslaw, Michael Medwin, Alfie Bass, Comedy
A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Read More »
The Juggler (1953) Edward Dmytryk, Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Paul Stewart, Drama, History, War
Hans Muller is a Jewish refugee from Germany. Relocating to Israel after World War II, he can not overcome the psychological effects of the war. Read More »
Heart of the Rockies (1951) William Witney, Roy Rogers, Trigger, Penny Edwards, Western
Roy Rogers, a highway engineer, strongly favors a youth-rehabilitation camp sponsored by retired State Prison Warden Parker where young first-offenders can be reformed without being exposed to penitentiary life. Read More »
Taxi, roulotte et corrida / Taxi, Trailer and Corrida (1958) André Hunebelle, Louis de Funès, Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre, Comedy
Louis is a hard working but crazy Paris taxi driver. Today he’s finishing work for the summer holiday: his family is going to Spain with his sister-in-law and her family Read More »
Huan le ren jian / Change the World (1959) Tian Wu, Dezhang Bai, Qi Guo, Yiwen Guo, Drama
Wei uncle from the off with her daughter Shirley flee from famine came in the northeast, under the rule of the puppet work in the coalmine. Read More »