Despite their different social class Ruby and Boake grew up together in the 1950s North Carolina. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
City Beneath the Sea (1953) Budd Boetticher, Robert Ryan, Mala Powers, Anthony Quinn
Divers Brad and Tony arrive in Jamaica to attempt salvage of the “Lady Luck,” sunk with all hands and a million in gold. Read More »
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) Richard Sale, Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain, Alan Young
Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York as well as not getting nowhere. Read More »
Yorokobi mo kanashimi mo ikutoshitsuki / Times of Joy and Sorrow (1957) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Takahiro Tamura
Covering the years from 1932 through 1957, this is the story of the trials and tribulations of lighthouse keeper Keiji Sada and his wife Hideko Takamine. Read More »
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957) Edgar G. Ulmer, John Agar, Gloria Talbott, Arthur Shields
A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe Read More »
House on Haunted Hill (1959) William Castle, Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife. Read More »
Saddle The Wind (1958) Robert Parrish, John Sturges, Robert Taylor, Julie London, John Cassavetes
Steve Sinclair is a world a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Read More »
Highly Dangerous (1950) Roy Ward Baker, Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring, Action, Thriller
When British Intelligence discovers that an Iron Curtian country is developing insects as weapons Read More »
Whistling in Kotan (1959) Mikio Naruse, Ken Yamauchi, Yoshiko Kôda, Masayuki Mori
In the outskirts of a city in Hokkaido, an indigenous Ainu family faces discrimination Read More »
Dial Red O (1955) Daniel B. Ullman, Bill Elliott, Helene Stanley, Keith Larsen, Crime, Drama, Mystery
The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff’s department, Dial Red “O” Read More »