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Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
The San Francisco Story (1952) Robert Parrish, Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Blackmer

In the 1850s San Francisco newspaper editor Jim Martin seeks the help of wealthy miner Read More »
Floods of Fear (1958) Charles Crichton, Howard Keel, Anne Heywood, Cyril Cusack

Two inmates working to shore up a dike during a severe flood are swept away Read More »
The Crucible / Les sorcières de Salem (1957) Raymond Rouleau, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Jean Debucourt

Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor Read More »
The Three Faces of Eve (1957) Nunnally Johnson

Eve White is a quiet, mousy, unassuming wife and mother who keeps suffering Read More »
Mr Drake’s Duck (1951) Val Guest, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan, Jon Pertwee

Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm Read More »
Danger Within (1959) Don Chaffey, Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding

In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through Read More »
