When ex-cop Steve Rollins is released from San Quentin after five years, his only thoughts are of revenge on the men who framed him for manslaughter. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
A Woman Like Satan / La femme et le pantin (1958) Julien Duvivier, Brigitte Bardot, Antonio Vilar, Lila Kedrova
Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl Read More »
Surrender (1950) Allan Dwan, Vera Ralston, John Carroll, Walter Brennan
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection Read More »
I Will Buy You / Anata kaimasu (1956) Masaki Kobayashi, Keiji Sada, Keiko Kishi, Minoru Ôki
Kobayashi’s pitiless take on Japan’s professional baseball industry is unlike any other sports film ever made. Read More »
The Purple Mask (1955) H. Bruce Humberstone, Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Gene Barry
France, 1803: eleven years after the Revolution, a royalist underground Read More »
Lovely to Look at (1952) Mervyn LeRoy, Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel
Al Marsh, Tony Naylor and Jerry Ralby, Broadway producers, are desperately looking for backers. Read More »
Full of Life (1956) Richard Quine, Judy Holliday, Richard Conte, Salvatore Baccaloni
Writer Nick and his wife Emily are expecting their first child. When a necessary home repair proves Read More »
About Mrs. Leslie (1954) Daniel Mann, Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan, Marjie Millar
Mrs. Leslie, rooming house landlady, reminisces in flashbacks about her past as a cafe entertainer Read More »
Five Guns West (1955) Roger Corman, John Lund, Dorothy Malone, Mike Connors
Shalee Jethro (Dorothy Malone) helps her father run a desert stagecoach station. Read More »
Edge of Doom (1950) Mark Robson, Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Joan Evans
A poor and alienated young man (Farley Granger) who is driven to murder when a priest refuses to give is deceased mother an expensive funeral. Read More »