Part of the British ‘Free Cinema’ movement, which included Lindsay Anderson’s ‘Every Day Except Christmas’ (daily life at Covent Garden fruit/vegetable market) Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Bundle of Joy (1956) Norman Taurog, Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou
Kitschy musical remake of “Bachelor Mother”. Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store Read More »
Happy Anniversary (1959) David Miller, David Niven, Mitzi Gaynor, Carl Reiner
Living in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of New York City, lawyer Chris Walters and his wife Read More »
The Ambassador’s Daughter (1956) Norman Krasna, Olivia de Havilland, John Forsythe, Myrna Loy
Joan Fisk, daughter of the American ambassador to France, is bored with entertaining the wives of visiting V.I.P.s Read More »
Wuthering Heights AKA Abismos de pasión (1954) Luis Buñuel, Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister Read More »
Under the Phrygian Star AKA Pod gwiazda frygijska (1954) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Józef Nowak, Lucyna Winnicka, Halina Przybylska
Based on the writings of Igor Newerly, Kawalerowicz’s epic chronicles the romance between Szczesny Read More »
The Kentuckian (1955) Burt Lancaster, Diana Lynn, Dianne Foster
A frontiersman in 1820s Kentucky finds the area too civilized for his tastes Read More »
Prince of Players (1955) Philip Dunne, Richard Burton, Maggie McNamara, John Derek
A tragic and sentimental story that depicts the early career of the 19th century American actor Read More »
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) Richard Brooks, Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon
Charles returns to Paris to reminisce about the life he led in Paris after it was liberated. Read More »
Man on the Prowl (1957) Art Napoleon, Mala Powers, James Best, Ted de Corsia
The young Doug Gerhardt is a slasher and a homicidal sex maniac. Read More »
Life in Emergency Ward 10 (1959) Robert Day, Christopher Witty, Rupert Davies, Dorothy Alison
A new registrar, with a revolutionary heart lung machine he has bought from America Read More »
Stranger on the Prowl AKA Imbarco a mezzanotte (1952) Joseph Losey, Paul Muni, Joan Lorring, Vittorio Manunta
A nameless, homeless and rejected man who is looking for a new life and a young boy from an impoverished family Read More »
Chain Lightning (1950) Stuart Heisler, Humphrey Bogart, Eleanor Parker, Raymond Massey
Matt Brennan runs into Jo Holloway, the Red Cross girl he romanced in Europe when he was a flyer in World War II Read More »
The Day the Sky Exploded AKA La morte viene dallo spazio (1958) Paolo Heusch, Mario Bava, Paul Hubschmid, Madeleine Fischer, Fiorella Mari
Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed. Read More »
Rio Grande (1950) John Ford, John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Ben Johnson
Rio Grande takes place after the Civil War when the Union turned their attention towards the Apaches. Read More »