Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Slim Carter (1957) Richard Bartlett, Jock Mahoney, Julie Adams, Tim Hovey
Hughie Mack, a not so nice western singer, is discovered by Clover Doyle as the next movie cowboy hero. Read More »
Keep It Clean (1956) David Paltenghi, Ronald Shiner, James Hayter, Diane Hart
A man invents a new cleaning machine. His brother in law offers to help him promote it and they get help from the Purity League. Read More »
Seven Thunders (1957) Hugo Fregonese, Stephen Boyd, James Robertson Justice, Tony Wright
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France. Read More »
Devil in Silk (1956) Teufel in Seide
The last day of a vacation at the sea, Thomas Ritter met two women Read More »
Ring of Fear (1954) James Edward Grant, William A. Wellman, Clyde Beatty, Pat O’Brien, Mickey Spillane
Three psychiatrists find that Dublin O’Malley has homicidal tendencies, an under-diagnosis at best. Read More »
Booby Trap (1957) Henry Cass, Sydney Tafler, Patti Morgan, Harry Fowler
An absent-minded professor develops a James Bond-style exploding pen, but then misplaces it. Read More »
The Last Bridge / Die letzte Brücke (1954) Helmut Käutner, Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki, Barbara Rütting
A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Serbian partisan during World War II. Read More »
Tank Brigade / Tanková brigáda (1955) Ivo Toman, Otomar Krejca, Bedrich Prokos
The film is depicting Czechoslovak tank brigade fighting along with the Red Army in the WWII. Read More »
The Last Hurrah (1958) John Ford, Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster
An aging politician tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. Read More »