Several years earlier gangster Frank Buchanan was deported to his native Italy through the efforts of law enforcement authorities and rival gangsters who inform on him. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Home Before Dark (1958) Mervyn LeRoy, Jean Simmons, Dan O’Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Drama
A wealthy but emotionally damaged woman is released from a sanitarium a year after suffering a mental breakdown. Read More »
Separate Tables (1958) Delbert Mann, Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Drama, Romance
It’s the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Read More »
Miracolo a Milano / Miracle in Milan (1951) Vittorio De Sica, Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Read More »
Insurance Investigator (1951) George Blair, Richard Denning, Audrey Long, John Eldredge, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
John Hammond’s partner, George Sullivan, dies in an apparently accidental death, with Hammond the beneficiary of his double-indemnity insurance policy. Read More »
Unmasked (1950) George Blair, Robert Rockwell, Barbra Fuller, Raymond Burr, Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Roger Lewis, publisher of a vicious scandal sheet, is in the habit of tricking wealthy, gullible women into investing in his ventures. Read More »
Destination Big House (1950) George Blair, Dorothy Patrick, Robert Rockwell, Jimmy Lydon, Crime, Drama
School teacher Janet Brooks innocently involves herself in a scandal while spending the week-end alone in the mountain cabin of her fiancée, Dr. Walter Phillips. Read More »
Cinderella (1957) Ralph Nelson, Julie Andrews, Ilka Chase, Edie Adams, Musical, Family, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Believed lost since its one-night-only television broadcast in March of 1957, the original production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s made-for-TV musical features then-rising Broadway star Julie Andrews Read More »
Double Confession (1950) Ken Annakin, Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, Crime, Drama
When his wife is murdered, the husband tries to divert suspicion from himself to someone else. Unfortunately, his scheme winds up getting him mixed up with some real murderers. Read More »
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) Michael Anderson, John Farrow, David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
When this movie is made in 1956, one can circumnavigate the globe in a little less than two days. Read More »
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A wealthy harridan, Violet Venable, attempts to bribe Dr. Cukrowicz, a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans mental hospital that is desperately in need of funds Read More »
The Atomic Submarine (1959) Spencer Gordon Bennet, Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In the far and distant future of 1968, many ships and planes are crossing the North pole to transport passengers and cargo. Read More »
The Fly (1958) Kurt Neumann, David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After her husband Andre Delambre is crushed to death in a mechanical press, his wife recounts to his brother Francois Delambre and police Inspector Charas the events of the previous few months. Read More »
The Mugger (1958) William Berke, Kent Smith, Nan Martin, James Franciscus, Crime, Drama
An unidentified city is plagued by a mysterious mugger who attacks women at night, steals their purses, and cuts them on their left cheek. Read More »
The House Across the Lake / Heat Wave (1954) Ken Hughes, Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Sidney James, Crime, Drama
Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Read More »