
Told in semi-documentary style, this film deals with a little-known section Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Beggar’s Opera (1953) Peter Brook, Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose

Authentic rendering of John Gay’s 18th century musical, filmed in Technicolor Read More »
The Second Face (1950) Jack Bernhard, Ella Raines, Bruce Bennett, Rita Johnson

A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital Read More »
Mask of the Dragon (1951) Sam Newfield, Richard Travis, Sheila Ryan, Sid Melton

Lt. Dan Oliver, an American soldier in Korea, agrees to deliver a jade dragon statuette Read More »
One Girl’s Confession (1953) Hugo Haas

Another of the “Fate and Irony” films from director-writer-producer-actor Hugo Haas but this one has less hair-shirt torment Read More »
The Delicate Delinquent (1957) Don McGuire, Jerry Lewis, Martha Hyer, Darren McGavin

Sidney Pythias is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon as a teenage gang member Read More »
Betrayed Women (1955) Edward L. Cahn, Carole Mathews, Beverly Michaels, Peggy Knudsen

The governor appoints lawyer Jeff Darrow to open an investigation on the reported cruelties Read More »
Le Psychodrame (1956) Jacob Levi Moreno, Roberto Rossellini, Arielle Audrey, René Demagny, Jim Einis

Roberto Rossellini realized with Jacob Levi Moreno this short (not transmitted) for RTF. Read More »
Dragonfly Squadron (1954) Lesley Selander, John Hodiak, Barbara Britton, Bruce Bennett

A Korean War film with a secondary plot of the training of South Korean pilots Read More »
Girl with an Itch (1958) Ronald V. Ashcroft, Kathy Marlowe, Robert Armstrong, Robert Clarke

A lonely, widowed middle-aged ranch owner gives a ride to a sexy blonde hitchhiker Read More »