In the 1830s, a captain in the East India Company lobbies to investigate Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Groom Wore Spurs (1951) Richard Whorf, Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson, Joan Davis
An attorney is hired to keep a dumb cowboy out of trouble. Read More »
The Secret of Magic Island / Une fée… pas comme les autres (1956) Jean Tourane, Robert Lamoureux, Robert Beatty, Phil Tonken
The inhabitants of a peaceful village are replaced by a bunch of geese, dogs, foxes and rabbits Read More »
Web of Evidence (1959) Jack Cardiff, Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Emlyn Williams
Twenty years after being evacuated to America, Paul Mathry returns to Liverpool for a short visit. Read More »
Saturday’s Hero (1951) David Miller, John Derek, Donna Reed, Sidney Blackmer
High school football hero Steve Novak finds himself caught up in the world Read More »
Teenage Rebel (1956) Edmund Goulding, Ginger Rogers, Michael Rennie, Mildred Natwick
A sometimes sappy, yet effective melodrama about a woman who tries to make amends with her teenage daughter Read More »
Marie of the Isles / Marie des Isles (1959) Georges Combret, Belinda Lee, Alain Saury, Darío Moreno
In 1635, Jacques du Parquet, the nephew of the well known explorer Read More »
Violent Moment (1959) Sidney Hayers, Lyndon Brook, Jane Hylton, Jill Browne
Douglas Baines, a wartime army deserter, is lying low in a shabby flat Read More »
The Bad Seed (1956) Mervyn LeRoy, Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones
Christine Penmark seems to have it all: a lovely home, a loving husband and the most “perfect” daughter in the world. Read More »
Le trou normand (1952) Jean Boyer, Bourvil, Pierre Larquey, Jane Marken
To inherited his uncle’s hotel and restaurant Hippolyte, a naive and simple man, must pass his primary school exam. Read More »