A 17-year-old high-school senior must justify her wedding to a 24-year-old law student to both her parents and her unbalanced ex-boyfriend. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The White Slave Trade / La tratta delle bianche (1952) Luigi Comencini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Marc Lawrence, Ettore Manni
Cunning and exploitative, Manfredi, the ruthless human trafficker, has always been good at lying. Read More »
On the Beach (1959) Stanley Kramer, Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary Read More »
Himeyuri Lily Tower / Himeyuri no Tô (1953) Tadashi Imai, Kyôko Kagawa, Susumu Fujita, Keiko Tsushima
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. Read More »
Midnight Episode (1950) Gordon Parry, Stanley Holloway, Leslie Dwyer, Reginald Tate
A tramp gets involved with a mysterious crime when he finds a wallet in the street. Read More »
Ask Any Girl (1959) Charles Walters, David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Gig Young
When Meg Wheeler, a naive young girl, goes to big city looking for a husband she lands a job Read More »
Cry of the Hunted (1953) Joseph H. Lewis, Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen
Lt. Tunner is in charge of the maximum security section of Bradville State Penitentiary in the Los Angeles area. Read More »
Girl and the River / L’eau vive (1958) François Villiers, Pascale Audret, Charles Blavette, Henri Arius
Old Félix, a prosperous land owner in Haute Provence, will be expropriated Read More »
Life Sentence / Kala Pani (1958) Raj Khosla, Dev Anand, Madhubala, Nalini Jaywant
Based on A.J.Cronin’s ‘Beyond This Place’, this movie narrates the story of an untiring crusade for justice. Read More »
The Desert Hawk (1950) Frederick De Cordova, Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Greene, Jackie Gleason
“2000 years ago” desert guerilla Omar, with henchmen Aladdin and Sinbad, opposes tyrannical Prince Murad. Read More »