Freddie Frisby is informed by Bob Sears that he can’t marry Bob’s daughter Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Flower in Hell / Jiokhwa (1958) Sang-ok Shin, Eun-hie Choi, Hae-won Jo, Hak Kim
A country bumpkin (Dong-shik) goes to Seoul in order to bring his older brother (Young-shik)back to the country. Read More »
Invitation (1952) Gottfried Reinhardt, Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire, Ruth Roman
Always believing she had a happy marriage, a young wife’s trust in her husband is shaken when she discovers that her father had paid him to marry her. Read More »
The Quiet American (1958) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin
In this adaptation of Graham Greene’s prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure Read More »
Thunderbirds (1952) John H. Auer, John Derek, John Drew Barrymore, Mona Freeman
An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II. Read More »
On the Loose (1951) Charles Lederer, Joan Evans, Melvyn Douglas, Lynn Bari
Jill, a teenager, feels misunderstood by her neglectful selfish parents, Frank and Alice. Read More »
Desert Pursuit (1952) George Blair, Wayne Morris, Virginia Grey, George Tobias
In this bizarre western, two prospectors strike it rich and set out across Death Valley with their riches. Read More »
The Fountain of Youth (1958) Orson Welles, Dan Tobin, Joi Lansing
A couple is conflicted when they are offered a chance at youth. Based on John Collier’s short story “Youth from Vienna”. Read More »
Hell’s Horizon (1955) Tom Gries, John Ireland, Marla English, Bill Williams
U.S. Air Force Captain John Merrill, an unlikeable Korean War bomber pilot Read More »
Nor the Moon by Night (1958) Ken Annakin, Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan
When Alice Lang flies out to Kenya to marry gamekeeper Andrew Miller she is met by his brother Rusty, who is initially opposed to the marriage. Read More »