Douglas Baines, a wartime army deserter, is lying low in a shabby flat Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Bad Seed (1956) Mervyn LeRoy, Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones
Christine Penmark seems to have it all: a lovely home, a loving husband and the most “perfect” daughter in the world. Read More »
Le trou normand (1952) Jean Boyer, Bourvil, Pierre Larquey, Jane Marken
To inherited his uncle’s hotel and restaurant Hippolyte, a naive and simple man, must pass his primary school exam. Read More »
The San Francisco Story (1952) Robert Parrish, Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Blackmer
In the 1850s San Francisco newspaper editor Jim Martin seeks the help of wealthy miner Read More »
Floods of Fear (1958) Charles Crichton, Howard Keel, Anne Heywood, Cyril Cusack
Two inmates working to shore up a dike during a severe flood are swept away Read More »
The Crucible AKA Les sorcières de Salem (1957) Raymond Rouleau, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Jean Debucourt
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor Read More »
The Three Faces of Eve (1957) Nunnally Johnson, Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb
Eve White is a quiet, mousy, unassuming wife and mother who keeps suffering Read More »
Mr Drake’s Duck (1951) Val Guest, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan, Jon Pertwee
Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm Read More »
Danger Within (1959) Don Chaffey, Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding
In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through Read More »
Kill Her Gently (1957) Charles Saunders, Griffith Jones, Maureen Connell, Marc Lawrence
Two convicts who have just escaped from prison are picked up by a motorist. Read More »
I’ll Get You for This (1951) Joseph M. Newman, George Raft, Coleen Gray, Enzo Staiola
American gambler Nick Cain arrives at the Mediterranean town of San Paola, and befriends an orphan Italian shoe-shine boy named Toni. Read More »
Death of a Cyclist AKA Muerte de un ciclista (1955) Juan Antonio Bardem, Lucia Bosé, Alberto Closas, Bruna Corrà
Juan is an academic, his career stalled, teaching at the university because of his brother-in-law’s prestige. Read More »
Jamboree! (1957) Roy Lockwood, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Bowen
Pete Porter and Honey Wynn become overnight sensations as a romantic singing duo. Read More »
Impulse (1954) Charles De la Tour, Arthur Kennedy, Constance Smith, Joy Shelton
An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. Read More »
Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956) Curt Siodmak, John Bromfield, Beverly Garland, Tom Payne
Rock Dean and Dr. Andrea Romar travel up the Amazon River to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic Read More »