Two convicts escape from jail after knocking their wardens out and putting on their uniform. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
That Night AKA Cette nuit là… (1958) Maurice Cazeneuve, Mylène Demongeot, Maurice Ronet, Jean Servais
Jean, who is the artistic director of a fashion magazine, is married Read More »
Uncle Hyacynth AKA Mi tío Jacinto (1956) Ladislao Vajda, Pablito Calvo, Antonio Vico, José Marco Davó
Jacinto, a retired bullfighter who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote Read More »
Science Friction (1959) Stan Vanderbeek
This film uses stop motion animation of still photographs to convey images of politics Read More »
The Day the Earth Froze AKA Sampo (1959) Aleksandr Ptushko, Urho Somersalmi, Anna Orochko, Ivan Voronov
Based on Finnish mythology, this movie traces the exploits of Lemminkäinen as he woos Read More »
Night and the City (1950) Jules Dassin, Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers
Harry Fabian is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. Read More »
Gorilla at Large (1954) Harmon Jones, Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Lee J. Cobb
At sinister carnival The Garden of Evil, the main attraction is Goliath Read More »
Apache War Smoke (1952) Harold F. Kress, Gilbert Roland, Glenda Farrell, Robert Horton
An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. Read More »
Hannibal AKA Annibale (1959) Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Edgar G. Ulmer, Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rita Gam
After making his historic crossing of the Alps with elephants transporting supplies Read More »
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) Michael Gordon, José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince
France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose Read More »
Manon of the Spring AKA Manon des sources (1952) Marcel Pagnol, Edmond Ardisson, Henri Arius, André Bervil
More than anything in the world, Manon, a proud, solitary shepherdess of verdant Provence Read More »
Timbuktu (1958) Jacques Tourneur, Victor Mature, Yvonne De Carlo, George Dolenz
In 1940 Col. Dufort arrives in Timbuktu with his wife to take over the French garrison. Read More »
Deadly Nightshade (1953) John Gilling, Emrys Jones, Zena Marshall, John Horsley
Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful. Read More »
The Boy and the Fog AKA El niño y la niebla (1953) Roberto Gavaldón, Dolores del Rio, Pedro López Lagar, Eduardo Noriega
Marta (Dolores del Río) is a woman who lives obsessed, since her mother Read More »
Square Fortune AKA Fortune carrée (1955) Bernard Borderie, Pedro Armendáriz, Paul Meurisse, Fernand Ledoux
Literary adaptation of an adventure from the 30s: An escaped convict from Read More »