An aging politician tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Six Bridges to Cross (1955) Joseph Pevney, Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams
Youth gang leader Jerry Florea is shot fleeing from a crime scene by rookie cop Ed Gallagher. Read More »
The Condemned Ones AKA Condenados (1953) Manuel Mur Oti, Aurora Bautista, Carlos Lemos, José Suárez
Aurelia is a Mancha’s peasant who barely can keep the estate of her husband (José), imprisoned for killing a man. Read More »
Long John Silver (1954) Byron Haskin, Robert Newton, Connie Gilchrist, Lloyd Berrell
After the Treasure Island adventure, Long John Silver turns up on a British Caribbean island Read More »
Black Jack (1950) Julien Duvivier, José Antonio Nieves Conde, George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Roc
Bold and attractive, Mike Alexander is an American who smuggles drugs across the Spanish Mediterranean. Read More »
He’s a Cockeyed Wonder (1950) Peter Godfrey, Mickey Rooney, Terry Moore, William Demarest
Freddie Frisby is informed by Bob Sears that he can’t marry Bob’s daughter Read More »
Flower in Hell AKA Jiokhwa (1958) Sang-ok Shin, Eun-hie Choi, Hae-won Jo, Hak Kim
A country bumpkin (Dong-shik) goes to Seoul in order to bring his older brother (Young-shik)back to the country. Read More »
Invitation (1952) Gottfried Reinhardt, Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire, Ruth Roman
Always believing she had a happy marriage, a young wife’s trust in her husband is shaken when she discovers that her father had paid him to marry her. Read More »
The Quiet American (1958) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin
In this adaptation of Graham Greene’s prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure Read More »
Our Girl Friday (1953) Noel Langley, Joan Collins, George Cole, Kenneth More
Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. Read More »
Thunderbirds (1952) John H. Auer, John Derek, John Drew Barrymore, Mona Freeman
An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II. Read More »
On the Loose (1951) Charles Lederer, Joan Evans, Melvyn Douglas, Lynn Bari
Jill, a teenager, feels misunderstood by her neglectful selfish parents, Frank and Alice. Read More »
Desert Pursuit (1952) George Blair, Wayne Morris, Virginia Grey, George Tobias
In this bizarre western, two prospectors strike it rich and set out across Death Valley with their riches. Read More »
The Fountain of Youth (1958) Orson Welles, Dan Tobin, Joi Lansing
A couple is conflicted when they are offered a chance at youth. Read More »
Hell’s Horizon (1955) Tom Gries, John Ireland, Marla English, Bill Williams
U.S. Air Force Captain John Merrill, an unlikeable Korean War bomber pilot Read More »