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Tag Archives: 1950s
Appointment with a Shadow (1957)

George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. Read More »
The Quiet Gun (1957) William F. Claxton

Hired gun Doug Sadler rides into a small Western town and immediately provokes the local sheriff, Carl Brandon, by tormenting a simpleminded local named Sampson. Read More »
A Slight Case of Larceny (1953) Don Weis

Two army buddies down on their luck open up a gas station and get involved in a price war – in a somewhat underhanded way. Read More »
The African Queen (1951) John Huston

In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary Read More »
Party Girl (1958) Nicholas Ray, Robert Taylor

Lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career defending crooks in trials. Read More »
The Wonderful Country (1959) Robert Parrish

Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father’s murderer Read More »
Back from Eternity (1956) John Farrow

After a commercial plane crash lands in a South American jungle, the passengers and pilots Read More »
Unmasked (1950) George Blair, Robert Rockwell

Roger Lewis, publisher of a vicious scandal sheet, is in the habit of tricking wealthy, gullible women into investing in his ventures. Read More »
The Happy Years (1950) William A. Wellman

Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperdink “Dink” Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School Read More »