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Tag Archives: 1950s
Science Friction (1959) Stan Vanderbeek

This film uses stop motion animation of still photographs to convey images of politics Read More »
The Day the Earth Froze (1959) Aleksandr Ptushko

Based on Finnish mythology, this movie traces the exploits of Lemminkäinen as he woos Read More »
Night and the City (1950) Jules Dassin, Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers

Harry Fabian is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. Read More »
Gorilla at Large (1954) Harmon Jones, Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Lee J. Cobb

At sinister carnival The Garden of Evil, the main attraction is Goliath Read More »
Apache War Smoke (1952) Harold F. Kress, Gilbert Roland, Glenda Farrell, Robert Horton

An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. Read More »
Hannibal / Annibale (1959) Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Edgar G. Ulmer, Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rita Gam

After making his historic crossing of the Alps with elephants transporting supplies Read More »
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) Michael Gordon, José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince

France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose Read More »
Manon of the Spring / Manon des sources (1952) Marcel Pagnol, Edmond Ardisson, Henri Arius, André Bervil

More than anything in the world, Manon, a proud, solitary shepherdess of verdant Provence Read More »
Timbuktu (1958) Jacques Tourneur, Victor Mature, Yvonne De Carlo, George Dolenz

In 1940 Col. Dufort arrives in Timbuktu with his wife to take over the French garrison. Read More »