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Tag Archives: 1950s
Three Young Texans (1954) Henry Levin, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeffrey Hunter, Keefe Brasselle, Western
A western about a Texan who robs a train in an effort to prevent his father from committing the crime Read More »
Three Came Home (1950) Jean Negulesco, Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, War, Drama
The true story of Agnes Newton Keith’s imprisonment in several Japanese prisoner-of-war camps from 1941 to the end of WWII. Read More »
The Best of Everything (1959) Jean Negulesco, Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Drama, Romance
With her unofficial fiancé Eddie Harris studying in England for a year, Radcliffe educated Caroline Bender decides to get her first ever job as a secretary Read More »
Wagon Team (1952) George Archainbaud, Gene Autry, Champion, Gail Davis, Action, Western
Special investigator Gene Autry (Gene Autry) has himself jailed so he can work on then conscience of Dave Weldon (Dick Jones), suspected of the theft of an Army payroll. Read More »
His Excellency (1952) Robert Hamer, Eric Portman, Cecil Parker, Helen Cherry, Comedy
An ex dock-worker is appointed governor of a Mediterranean colony of the British Empire. Read More »
On the Threshold of Space (1956) Robert D. Webb, Guy Madison, Virginia Leith, John Hodiak, Drama, Sci-Fi
The story centers on an Air Force doctor who performs many detailed test to discover how the human body will respond to the rigors of space travel Read More »
The Second Greatest Sex (1955) George Marshall, Jeanne Crain, George Nader, Kitty Kallen, Musical, Western
In 1880, Osawkie, Kansas is feuding with rival town Mandaroon over which will be county seat, keeping the town’s men away from home most of the time. Read More »
The Parson and the Outlaw (1957) Oliver Drake, Anthony Dexter, Sonny Tufts, Marie Windsor, Western
Pretending death at the hands of his friend, Marshal Pat Garrett, (Bob Duncan). Billy the Kid (Anthony Dexter) rides away to live in peace under a new name in a far away frontier town Read More »
Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959) Edward L. Cahn, Jerome Thor, Marcia Henderson, Scott Marlowe, Crime, Drama
When the shootings of two juvenile inmates bring public protest, a psychologist is brought in to see if he can do anything to control the problems peacefully. Read More »
The Careless Years (1957) Arthur Hiller, Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, John Larch, Drama, Romance
Two high-school seniors teenagers, from different social standings, have a date and when the girl resists the boy’s romantic advances Read More »
Les espions / The Spies (1957) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, O.E. Hasse, Drama, Mystery
A psychiatrist, desperate for money to keep his faltering practice running, makes a deal with a spy to hide a mysterious person in his clinic in return for a million francs. Read More »
I ladri / The Thieves (1959) Lucio Fulci, Totò, Giovanna Ralli, Armando Calvo, Comedy
An Italo-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds, hidden in jam jars. Read More »
I Want to Live! (1958) Robert Wise, Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Biography, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Read More »
The Big Gusher (1951) Lew Landers, Wayne Morris, Preston Foster, Dorothy Patrick, Adventure, Action
Oil-field roughnecks Kenny Blake and Hank Mason, on a drinking spree with Betsy Abbott, buy a piece of worthless oil land from conman Jim Tolman. Read More »