Perhaps Kobayashi’s most sordid film, Black River is an exposé of the rampant corruption on Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Moralist / Il moralista (1959) Giorgio Bianchi, Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Franco Fabrizi
Augustino works as the General Secretary of Social Morality Union Read More »
Deadly Record (1959) Lawrence Huntington, Lee Patterson, Barbara Shelley, Jane Hylton
An airline pilot, falsely accused of wife-murder, sets out to find who really did it. Read More »
Stage Fright (1950) Alfred Hitchcock, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd
Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his lover’s husband. Read More »
Shack Out on 101 (1955) Edward Dein, Terry Moore, Frank Lovejoy, Keenan Wynn
At an isolated, seaside greasy-spoon cafe live George, the sarcastic owner; Slob, the potentially violent cook Read More »
Eagle of the Pacific / Taiheiyô no washi (1953) Ishirô Honda, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Hiroshi Nihon’yanagi, Masao Shimizu
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician Read More »
Saskatchewan (1954) Raoul Walsh, Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, J. Carrol Naish
O’Rourke and his Cree half brother Cajou are returning from a northern Canadian trapping trip when they encounter Read More »
East of Kilimanjaro / La grande caccia (1957) Arnold Belgard, Edoardo Capolino, Marshall Thompson, Gaby André, Kris Aschan
A free-lance photographer (Marshall Thompson) woos a doctor (Gaby Andre) trying to stop a cattle epidemic in Tanganyika. Read More »
Watusi (1959) Kurt Neumann, George Montgomery, Taina Elg, David Farrar
Following the end of World War I, explorer Allen Quartermain’s son Harry travels to Africa to search for King Solomon’s mines. Read More »
The Invisible Boy (1957) Herman Hoffman, Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster
Timmie is a typical ten-year-old boy: he loves fun and mischief and hates to study. Read More »