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Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
Johnny You’re Wanted (1956) Vernon Sewell, John Slater, Alfred Marks, Garry Marsh
Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Read More »
Three for Bedroom C (1952) Milton H. Bren, Gloria Swanson, James Warren, Fred Clark
A film star and her young daughter stow away on a cross-country train to California. Read More »
Mother India (1957) Mehboob Khan, Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar
The film begins with the finishing of a water canal for the village set in the present. Read More »
Land of the Pharaohs (1955) Howard Hawks, Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin
In ancient Egypt, the Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) is obsessed with acquiring gold Read More »
It’s a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951) Clarence Brown, Don Hartman, Ethel Barrymore, Keefe Brasselle, Gary Cooper
The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit Read More »
Crow Hollow (1952) Michael McCarthy, Donald Houston, Natasha Parry, Patricia Owens
A story of a newly-wed wife of a young doctor who goes to live with him Read More »
For Heaven’s Sake (1950) George Seaton, Clifton Webb, Joan Bennett, Robert Cummings
Two angels, Charles and Arthur, are sent down to retrieve a young girl who has selected Read More »
The Shiralee (1957) Leslie Norman, Peter Finch, Dana Wilson, Elizabeth Sellars
Based on a best-selling Australian novel by D’Arcy Niland, The Shiralee stars Peter Finch as an Aussie “swagman,” or poacher Read More »