A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Night Affair (1958) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Nadja Tiller
Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Read More »
This Is My Love (1954) Stuart Heisler, Linda Darnell, Dan Duryea, Rick Jason
Via, an unstable young woman, is stuck in a loveless marriage to a bitter, crippled man. Read More »
Duel at Apache Wells (1957) Joseph Kane, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Ben Cooper, Jim Davis
A young man returns home after several years’ absence to find that a gang Read More »
Deadlier Than the Male / Voici le temps des assassins… (1956) Julien Duvivier, Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Robert Arnoux
André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. Read More »
The Underworld Story (1950) Cy Endfield, Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm
Mike Reese, yellow journalist and antihero, prints a story that leads to a gang killing Read More »
Crime Against Joe (1956) Lee Sholem, John Bromfield, Julie London, Henry Calvin
Joe Manning returned from the Korean War a changed man and became a Bohemian artist, supported by his understanding mother and distrusted by others. Read More »
To Joy / Till glädje (1950) Ingmar Bergman, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Stig Olin, Birger Malmsten
Stig, a visiting soloist to a small Swedish orchestra, marries fellow musician Martha Read More »
The Gates of Paris / Porte des Lilas (1957) René Clair, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal
Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone—anyone—and his friend, an artist Read More »
Deseada (1951) Roberto Gavaldón, Dolores Del Río, Jorge Mistral, José Baviera
Deseada tries comforting her sister worried about marrying a Spanish stranger. When he arrives in Chichen Itza Read More »