
After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Terror in a Texas Town (1958) Joseph H. Lewis, Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly

Sven Hanson is one of a number of farmers whom Ed McNeil wants to run off their land (because he knows there’s oil on it). Read More »
The Pathfinder (1952) Sidney Salkow, George Montgomery, Helena Carter, Jay Silverheels

Pathfinder, a white man raised by the Mohican Indians Read More »
Defiance / Trots (1952) Gustaf Molander, Anders Henrikson, Per Oscarsson, Harriet Andersson

A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. Read More »
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 »