Little known Italian film from 1953 about the historical Phryne (she was real), a famous courtesan. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Love from Paris AKA Monpti (1957) Helmut Käutner, Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Mara Lane
A poor 22 y.o. Hungarian man who’s recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 y.o. Parisian girl. Read More »
At Gunpoint (1955) Alfred L. Werker, Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, Walter Brennan
The Dennis gang wants to rob the bank of the sleepy peaceful town of Plainview, Texas. Read More »
Wet Asphalt AKA Nasser Asphalt (1958) Frank Wisbar, Horst Buchholz, Martin Held, Maria Perschy
In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months Read More »
Teenage Doll (1957) Roger Corman, June Kenney, Fay Spain, John Brinkley
The Black Widows, a teenage girl gang, find one of their number killed Read More »
It Happened to Jane (1959) Richard Quine, Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
Jane Osgood is trying to support her two young children by running a lobster business. Read More »
Operation Mad Ball (1957) Richard Quine, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Kathryn Grant
Private Hogan must raise his ability to scheme and plot to a new level to put Read More »
The Forbidden Christ AKA Il Cristo proibito (1951) Curzio Malaparte, Raf Vallone, Rina Morelli, Alain Cuny
Back in his village, former war prisoner Bruno Baldi is dead set on avenging his brother Read More »
Return to Treasure Island (1954) Ewald André Dupont, Tab Hunter, Dawn Addams, Porter Hall
American academic Clive Stone is conducting research on pirate lore for a book. Read More »
Money, Women and Guns (1958) Richard Bartlett, Jock Mahoney, Kim Hunter, Tim Hovey
Just after making a large gold discovery, an old prospector is ambushed and killed Read More »
The Long, Hot Summer (1958) Martin Ritt, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa
Sixty-one year old widower Will Varner, in ill health, owns many businesses Read More »
Bait (1954) Hugo Haas, Cleo Moore, John Agar
Another in the long line of the Trials-and-Tribulations (compounded by Misery and Irony) offerings from Hugo Haas. Read More »
The Other Woman (1954) Hugo Haas, Cleo Moore, Lance Fuller
Bit player Sherry Stewart gets miffed when director Walter Darman Read More »
The Man Who Understood Women (1959) Nunnally Johnson, Leslie Caron, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova
Willie Bauche, a Hollywood producer, becomes so obsessed with turning his wife Read More »
Cease Fire! (1953) Owen Crump, Roy Thompson Jr., Henry Goszkowski, Richard Karl Elliott
In this documentary, actual American soldiers and others re-enact a real Korean War operation Read More »