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Tag Archives: 1950s
Voodoo Island (1957) Reginald Le Borg, Boris Karloff, Beverly Tyler, Murvyn Vye

A scholarly type is asked to investigate the possible island site for a large resort hotel–an island rumored to be infested with zombies. Read More »
Rogue Cop (1954) Roy Rowland, Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, George Raft

Detective Chris Kelvaney has a brother, Eddie, who also is a policeman. He witnessed a murderer running away from the scene of the crime. Read More »
Tonka / A Horse Named Comanche (1958) Lewis R. Foster, Sal Mineo, Philip Carey, Jerome Courtland

In Dakota territory in the 1870s, White Bull, a young Sioux, proves his manhood by catching and training a wild colt he names Tonka. Read More »
Ikimono no kiroku / I Live in Fear (1955) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is so frightened and obsessed with the idea of nuclear Read More »
Sweethearts on Parade (1953) Allan Dwan, Ray Middleton, Lucille Norman, Eileen Christy

Cam Ellerby (Ray Middleton) brings his traveling medicine show to town and it spells glamor and excitement to young Sylvia Townsend (Eileen Christy). Read More »
Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki / She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) Keisuke Kinoshita, Noriko Arita, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura

An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies and thinks back to when he was fifteen. Read More »
Leave It to the Marines (1951) Sam Newfield, Sid Melton, Mara Lynn, Gregg Martell

Gerald Meek and Myrna McAllister go to city hall to apply for a marriage license. Read More »
Wild Strawberries / Smultronstället (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence. Read More »
The Magnificent Yankee (1950) John Sturges, Louis Calhern, Ann Harding, Eduard Franz

When 61-year-old Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. arrives in Washington DC in 1902 to take his seat on the Supreme Court Read More »