A draft, his wife, his son and a man who pretends to come to a miserable lobero people of Abruzzo. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Amei um Bicheiro (1953) Jorge Ileli, Paulo Wanderley, Cyl Farney, Eliana, Grande Otelo
Intent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun. Read More »
It Grows on Trees (1952) Arthur Lubin, Irene Dunne, Dean Jagger, Joan Evans
The Baxters are a typical happy American family trying to live on too little money. Read More »
The Damned Don’t Cry (1950) Vincent Sherman, Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
The murder of gangster Nick Prenta rolls an evaluation of mysterious socialite Read More »
Walk East on Beacon! (1952) Alfred L. Werker, George Murphy, Finlay Currie, Virginia Gilmore
An FBI agent (George Murphy) works with a refugee scientist (Finlay Currie) Read More »
Bright Victory (1951) Mark Robson, Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julie Adams
In North Africa during World War II, Sergeant Larry Nevins is blinded by a German sniper’s bullet. Read More »
The Kaiser’s Lackey AKA Der Untertan (1951) Wolfgang Staudte, Werner Peters, Paul Esser, Renate Fischer
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. Read More »
Brink of Life AKA Nära livet (1958) Ingmar Bergman, Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other while in a maternity ward together Read More »
The Tinder Box AKA Das Feuerzeug (1959) Siegfried Hartmann, Rolf Ludwig, Heinz Schubert, Rolf Defrank
A young soldier discovers three chests of copper, silver and gold and an old tinder-box in the hollow of an old oak tree. Read More »
The Young Lovers (1954) Anthony Asquith, Odile Versois, David Knight, Joseph Tomelty
The Young Lovers is about a young couple – she is Eastern European and the daughter of a communist ambassador Read More »
Lovers and Lollipops (1956) Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, Lori March, Gerald S. O’Loughlin, Cathy Dunn
Ann, an attractive widowed New York model, lives in an apartment with her daughter Peggy. Read More »
Double Jeopardy (1955) R.G. Springsteen, Rod Cameron, Gale Robbins, Allison Hayes
Emmett Devery is being blackmailed by his former partner, Sam Baggott, who served Read More »
Edward and Caroline AKA Édouard et Caroline (1951) Jacques Becker, Daniel Gélin, Anne Vernon, Elina Labourdette
Edouard is a pianist, married with Caroline. This evening, they are invited to Claude’s. Read More »
The Glass Tower AKA Der gläserne Turm (1957) Harald Braun, Lilli Palmer, O.E. Hasse, Peter van Eyck
Marital problems of a couple lead to a mysterious death. Read More »
The Tattooed Stranger (1950) Edward Montagne, John Miles, Patricia Barry, Walter Kinsella
The body of an unknown woman turns up in a stolen car abandoned in a New York park Read More »