Sherry Conley, a street tough and cynical woman with an unhappy family background Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Under the Gun (1951) Ted Tetzlaff, Richard Conte, Audrey Totter, John McIntire
New York gangster Bart Galvin (Richard Conte) is sent to a prison-farm in Florida for killing one of his enemies in Miami. Read More »
The Toast of New Orleans (1950) Norman Taurog, Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza, David Niven
Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Read More »
Father Is a Bachelor (1950) Abby Berlin, Norman Foster, William Holden, Coleen Gray, Mary Jane Saunders
William Holden plays a drifter who comes to a small town and discovers a cabin Read More »
Typhoon Over Nagasaki AKA Typhon sur Nagasaki (1957) Yves Ciampi, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Marais, Keiko Kishi
Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards Read More »
The Dancing Years (1950) Harold French, Dennis Price, Gisèle Préville, Patricia Dainton
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days Read More »
The Lady Is a Square (1959) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan, Janette Scott
Frankie Vaughan stars as young pop singer Johnny Burns, who is enlisted reluctantly by Frances Baring (Anna Neagle) Read More »
Huk! (1956) John Barnwell, George Montgomery, Mona Freeman, John Baer
After 14 years in the United States, Greg Dickson returns to the Philippines where he was raised Read More »
The Miniver Story (1950) H.C. Potter, Victor Saville, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together Read More »
Darling, How Could You! (1951) Mitchell Leisen, Joan Fontaine, John Lund, Mona Freeman
Based on James Barrie’s play “Alice Sit-By-The-Fire”. In turn-of-the-century New York Read More »
The Joker Is Wild (1957) Charles Vidor, Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain
Frank Sinatra plays Joe E. Lewis, a famous comedian of the 1930s-50s. Read More »
Salute the Toff (1952) Maclean Rogers, John Bentley, Carol Marsh, Roddy Hughes
When young secretary Fay (Marsh) fears for her boss’s safety when he fails Read More »
Hammer the Toff (1952) Maclean Rogers, John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, John Robinson
A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula. Read More »
Manuela (1957) Guy Hamilton, Trevor Howard, Leslie Weston, Donald Pleasence
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol Read More »
The Kidnapper AKA El secuestrador (1958) Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, María Vaner, Leonardo Favio, Lautaro Murúa
A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive Read More »