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Tag Archives: 1950s
The Doll Merchant / Nukkekauppias ja kaunis Lilith (1955) Jack Witikka, Martti Katajisto, Hillevi Lagerstam, Heikki Savolainen

A wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state. Read More »
The James Dean Story (1957) Robert Altman, George W. George, Martin Gabel, James Dean, Lew Bracker

This documentary, which was undertaken soon after James Dean’s death, looks at Dean’s life through the use of still photographs with narration Read More »
Císaruv pekar a pekaruv císar / The Emperor and the Golem (1952) Martin Fric, Jan Werich, Marie Vásová, Natasa Gollová

Rudolph II, the Holy Roman Emperor, does not have a simple life. And yet he manages to complicate it even more with his frequent outbursts of anger. Read More »
Anne of the Indies (1951) Jacques Tourneur

LaRochelle, a former pirate captain, is caught by the British. To get his ship back, he works as a spy against Read More »
I Was an American Spy (1951) Lesley Selander, Ann Dvorak, Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy

An American nightclub singer in 1940’s Singapore becomes a spy for America in an effort to get back at the invading Japanese army. Based on a true story. Read More »
The Belle of New York (1952) Charles Walters, Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main

In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. Read More »
Raising a Riot (1955) Wendy Toye, Kenneth More, Shelagh Fraser, Mandy Miller

Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife Mary have three children aged from five to eleven. Read More »
Ruby Gentry (1952) King Vidor, Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden

Despite their different social class Ruby and Boake grew up together in the 1950s North Carolina. Read More »
City Beneath the Sea (1953) Budd Boetticher, Robert Ryan, Mala Powers, Anthony Quinn

Divers Brad and Tony arrive in Jamaica to attempt salvage of the “Lady Luck,” sunk with all hands and a million in gold. Read More »