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Tag Archives: 1950s
Hell’s Island (1955) Phil Karlson, John Payne, Mary Murphy, Francis L. Sullivan
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. Read More »
Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952) Douglas Sirk, Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn
Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate Read More »
The Doll Merchant / Nukkekauppias ja kaunis Lilith (1955) Jack Witikka, Martti Katajisto, Hillevi Lagerstam, Heikki Savolainen
A wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state. Read More »
The James Dean Story (1957) Robert Altman, George W. George, Martin Gabel, James Dean, Lew Bracker
This documentary, which was undertaken soon after James Dean’s death, looks at Dean’s life through the use of still photographs with narration Read More »
Císaruv pekar a pekaruv císar / The Emperor and the Golem (1952) Martin Fric, Jan Werich, Marie Vásová, Natasa Gollová
Rudolph II, the Holy Roman Emperor, does not have a simple life. And yet he manages to complicate it even more with his frequent outbursts of anger. Read More »
Anne of the Indies (1951) Jacques Tourneur
LaRochelle, a former pirate captain, is caught by the British. To get his ship back, he works as a spy against Read More »
I Was an American Spy (1951) Lesley Selander, Ann Dvorak, Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy
An American nightclub singer in 1940’s Singapore becomes a spy for America in an effort to get back at the invading Japanese army. Based on a true story. Read More »
The Belle of New York (1952) Charles Walters, Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main
In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. Read More »
Raising a Riot (1955) Wendy Toye, Kenneth More, Shelagh Fraser, Mandy Miller
Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife Mary have three children aged from five to eleven. Read More »