The 19-year-old Elena, who is as pretty as she is bright, works as a rice girl for the landlord Guerrini. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Kekec (1951) Joze Gale, Matija Barl, Frane Milcinski, Franc Presetnik
In an alpine valley lies an idyllic village. High up in the mountains, facing each others Read More »
The Young Don’t Cry (1957) Alfred L. Werker, Sal Mineo, James Whitmore, J. Carrol Naish
A teenager (Sal Mineo) fights to retain his dignity and self-respect against the brutality Read More »
Escape by Night (1953) John Gilling, Bonar Colleano, Andrew Ray, Sidney James
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story. Read More »
O.K. Nero AKA O.K. Nerone (1951) Mario Soldati, Carlo Campanini, Walter Chiari, Silvana Pampanini
Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome Read More »
Stories from Madrid AKA Historias de Madrid (1958) Ramón Comas, Tony Leblanc, Licia Calderón, Mario Morales
In Madrid, both the owner of a building and its tenants have asked help to San Nicolás Read More »
House of Numbers (1957) Russell Rouse, Jack Palance, Harold J. Stone, Edward Platt
Arnie Judlow, an inmate at San Quentin prison serving a life sentence for murder Read More »
Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Professional photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Read More »
Leda AKA À double tour (1959) Claude Chabrol, Madeleine Robinson, Antonella Lualdi, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Leda, the flirt of Monsieur Marcoux is murdered. His wife and the police think Read More »
Le beau Serge (1958) Claude Chabrol, Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michèle Méritz
Francois comes back to his home village in France after more than a decade. Read More »
The Passionate Stranger (1957) Muriel Box, Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Patricia Dainton
Novelist Judith Wynter gets inspiration for her new book when her wheelchair-bound Read More »
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina
This a film version of the opera “The Tales of Hoffmann”, however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. Read More »
The Back of Beyond (1954) John Heyer, Tom Kruse, William Henry Butler, Jack the Dogger
A documentary film which follows a mailman as he travels along the Birdsville Track in the Outback. Read More »
Encore (1951) Harold French, Pat Jackson, Nigel Patrick, Roland Culver, Alison Leggatt
The film is made from three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham. The first, “The Ant and the Grasshopper” concerns the trials Read More »
Down Among the Z Men (1952) Maclean Rogers, Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine, Spike Milligan
Professor Pure Heart absentmindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones’ Grocery Shop. Read More »