Aida, featuring the actress Sophia Lauren, was a film adaptation of a theatre performance written by Verdi. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The House of Intrigue / Londra chiama Polo Nord (1956) Duilio Coletti, Curd Jürgens, Dawn Addams, Folco Lulli
A British radio operator is captured in occupied territory Read More »
Traviata ’53 (1953) Vittorio Cottafavi, Barbara Laage, Armando Francioli, Eduardo De Filippo
Updated version of the Camille melodrama: An engineer has a romance with the mistress Read More »
Marty (1955) Delbert Mann, Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti
Stuck as the last of six children at home with an overbearing Italian mother Read More »
Three Loves / Mittsu no ai (1954) Masaki Kobayashi, Isuzu Yamada, Kô Mishima, Yûnosuke Itô
In a mountain village, Heita, a translator’s son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. Read More »
The Flanagan Boy / Bad Blonde (1953) Reginald Le Borg, Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater
The film opens at a carnival with two barkers calling for onlookers to enter the tent where an audience Read More »
World Without End (1956) Edward Bernds, Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh
Four astronauts returning from mankind’s first mission to Mars enter a time warp Read More »
Red Garters (1954) George Marshall, Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell
A musical about a man who rides into a frontier town looking for his brother’s killer Read More »
Love Nest (1951) Joseph M. Newman, June Haver, William Lundigan, Frank Fay
Jim and Connie’s postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Read More »
Devil Goddess (1955) Spencer Gordon Bennet, Johnny Weissmuller, Angela Stevens, Selmer Jackson
Johnny Weissmuller guides Professor Blakely and his daughter Nora into forbidden Kirundi land Read More »