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Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
Deadly Nightshade (1953) John Gilling, Emrys Jones, Zena Marshall, John Horsley

Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful. Read More »
The Boy and the Fog / El niño y la niebla (1953) Roberto Gavaldón, Dolores del Rio, Pedro López Lagar, Eduardo Noriega

Marta (Dolores del Río) is a woman who lives obsessed, since her mother Read More »
Square Fortune / Fortune carrée (1955) Bernard Borderie, Pedro Armendáriz, Paul Meurisse, Fernand Ledoux

Literary adaptation of an adventure from the 30s: An escaped convict from Read More »
Below the Sahara (1953) Armand Denis, Michaela Denis, Carr Hartley

The photographic record of an African expedition led by producer-explorer Read More »
Four in a Jeep / Die Vier im Jeep (1951) Leopold Lindtberg, Elizabeth Montagu, Viveca Lindfors, Ralph Meeker, Yossi Yadin

In post-war Vienna, occupied by the Allies, four sergeants representing each Read More »
Siren of Bagdad (1953) Richard Quine, Paul Henreid, Patricia Medina, Hans Conried

Kazah the Great (Paul Henreid), a magician heads a troupe of girls and acrobats traveling in Arabia. Read More »