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Tag Archives: 1950s
On the Isle of Samoa (1950) William Berke, Jon Hall, Susan Cabot, Raymond Greenleaf
Ex-flyer Kenneth Crandall is surprised by his boss in an Australian nightclub, while attempting a robbery. Read More »
The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) Arnold Laven, Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried
An earthquake in the Salton Sea unleashes a horde of prehistoric mollusk monsters. Read More »
Find the Lady (1956) Charles Saunders, Donald Houston, Beverley Brooks, Mervyn Johns
During New Year’s Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing. Read More »
King Solomon’s Mines (1950) Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton, Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson
Guide Allan Quatermain helps a young lady (Beth) find her lost husband somewhere in Africa. Read More »
Man or Gun (1958) Albert C. Gannaway, Macdonald Carey, Audrey Totter, James Craig
A gun-slinging drifter, armed with a legendary pistol, saves a town from the greedy clutches of an evil family. Read More »
One Summer of Happiness AKA Hon dansade en sommar (1951) Arne Mattsson, Edvin Adolphson, Ulla Jacobsson, John Elfström
After graduating from high school 19 year old Göran goes to his uncle Anders’s farm in the countryside for recreation. Read More »
The Great Jewel Robber (1950) Peter Godfrey, David Brian, Marjorie Reynolds, John Archer
Escaping from a Canadian prison farm, master thief Gerard Dennis (David Brian) Read More »
Port Afrique (1956) Rudolph Maté, Pier Angeli, Eugene Deckers, Pat O’Meara
Rip Reardon, ex-Army flier, returns to his home in French Morocco and finds his wife dead Read More »
The Gates of Paris AKA Porte des Lilas (1957) René Clair, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal
Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone—anyone—and his friend, an artist Read More »
Summer Interlude AKA Sommarlek (1951) Ingmar Bergman, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin
While waiting for the night rehearsal of the ballet Swan Lake, the lonely twenty-eight year-old ballerina Read More »
Portrait of an Unknown Woman AKA Bildnis einer Unbekannten (1954) Helmut Käutner, Ruth Leuwerik, O.W. Fischer, Erich Schellow
Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on the body of a nude model. Read More »
Who Done It? (1956) Basil Dearden, Benny Hill, Belinda Lee, David Kossoff
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. Read More »
The Lion Hunters (1951) Ford Beebe, Johnny Sheffield, Morris Ankrum, Ann E. Todd
Bomba the Jungle Boy finds a wounded lion dying a slow and painful death, he finds a group on safari trapping lions for sale to zoos Read More »
Dino (1957) Thomas Carr, Sal Mineo, Brian Keith, Susan Kohner
A rebellious young man, just released from reform school, returns home only to come into conflict with his father. Read More »