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Tag Archives: 1950s
Blood to the Head AKA Le sang à la tête (1956) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Claude Sylvain
After thirty years of effort, the former longshoreman François Cardinaud Read More »
No Sad Songs for Me (1950) Rudolph Maté, Margaret Sullavan, Wendell Corey, Viveca Lindfors
Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. Read More »
And God Created Woman AKA Et Dieu… créa la femme (1956) Roger Vadim, Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Antoine promises to take the orphaned Juliette away from St. Tropez after a party Read More »
Gorillas Waltz AKA La valse du gorille (1959) Bernard Borderie, Charles Vanel, Jess Hahn, Ursula Herwig
This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of “The Gorilla,” Read More »
Angela (1954) Edoardo Anton, Dennis O’Keefe, Mara Lane, Rossano Brazzi
Angela (Mara Lane, secretary to an important businessman in Italy, Bertolati (Nino Crisman) Read More »
Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951) William Marshall, Errol Flynn, Micheline Presle, Vincent Price
A sea captain becomes involved with a servant girl in early New Orleans. Read More »
Somebody Loves Me (1952) Irving Brecher, Betty Hutton, Ralph Meeker, Robert Keith
Blossom Seeley climbs to Broadway success with her partner Benny Fields, then retires to become his wife. Read More »
If All the Guys in the World… AKA Si tous les gars du monde… (1955) Christian-Jaque, André Valmy, Jean Gaven, Marc Cassot
While fishing in the North Sea, eleven out of the twelve men of the Lutèce Read More »
Run for the Hills (1953) Lew Landers, Sonny Tufts, Barbara Payton, John Harmon
Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man (Sonny Tufts) Read More »
The Gorilla Greets You AKA Le gorille vous salue bien (1958) Bernard Borderie, Lino Ventura, Charles Vanel, Pierre Dux
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must Read More »
Dragstrip Riot (1958) David Bradley, Yvonne Lime, Gary Clarke, Fay Wray
After a run-in with a tough motorcycle gang, where Gary Clarke is blamed Read More »
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951) Budd Boetticher, Robert Stack, Joy Page, Gilbert Roland
Johnny Regan, a U.S. citizen, goes to Mexico and takes up bullfighting as a lark Read More »
Picnic on the Grass AKA Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe (1959) Jean Renoir, Paul Meurisse, Charles Blavette, André Brunot
Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial Read More »
There Will Be No Leave Today AKA Segodnya uvolneniya ne budet (1958) Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky, Oleg Borisov, Aleksey Alekseev, Pyotr Lyubeshkin
Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells Read More »