A female ranch owner and her two ranch hands try to help a young boy find the man who is responsible for ordering his father’s murder. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Beyond Mombasa (1956) George Marshall, Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, Leo Genn
During the 1950s, American adventurer Matt Campbell arrives in Kenya to join his brother George. Read More »
Chain Gang (1950) Lew Landers, Douglas Kennedy, Marjorie Lord, Emory Parnell
Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts (Douglas Kennedy), masquerades as a prison guard and gets a job attached to the chain gang. Read More »
Operation Secret (1952) Lewis Seiler, Cornel Wilde, Steve Cochran, Phyllis Thaxter
A few years after the end of WW2 a special French military commission is convened to summon witnesses who could shed light Read More »
Crisis (1950) Richard Brooks, Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond
Husband and wife Americans Dr. Eugene and Mrs. Helen Ferguson – he a renowned neurosurgeon Read More »
The Shaggy Dog (1959) Charles Barton, Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. Read More »
Pistol Harvest (1951) Lesley Selander, Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Robert Clarke
Life is sweet for cowboy Tim as he plans to marry pretty Felice, ward to wealthy rancher Terry Read More »
Equinox Flower AKA Higanbana (1958) Yasujirô Ozu, Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima
A business man is often approached by friends for advice and help regarding marriage as well as family Read More »
Early Summer AKA Bakushû (1951) Yasujirô Ozu, Setsuko Hara, Chishû Ryû, Chikage Awashima
In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko Read More »
Green Fire (1954) Andrew Marton, Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly, Paul Douglas
Rian Mitchell discovers an emerald deposit in South America, but gets chased away before he can start to mine. Read More »
I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955) Daniel Mann, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Read More »
Escort West (1959) Francis D. Lyon, Victor Mature, Elaine Stewart, Faith Domergue
In 1865 in Nevada, former Confederate Captain Ben Lassiter and his daughter Abbey travel through Modoc territory on their way to Oregon. Read More »
Never a Dull Moment (1950) George Marshall, Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, William Demarest
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher Read More »
The Last Stagecoach West (1957) Joseph Kane, Jim Davis, Mary Castle, Victor Jory
The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. Read More »
The King and Four Queens (1956) Raoul Walsh, Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes
Smooth cowboy Dan Kehoe arrives at a ranch run by an old widow and her four daughters-in-law. Read More »