
Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Bannerline (1951) Don Weis, Keefe Brasselle

A cub reporter finagled a fake front page showing a dying professor’s plan for civic reform. Read More »
Suzaki Paradise Red Light (1956) Yûzô Kawashima

A couple stand indecisively on a bridge in Asakusa. Tsutae and Yoshiji have lost confidence Read More »
The Purple Gang (1959) Frank McDonald

A teen-age rat pack of the Detroit slums, the Purple Gang, headed by psychotic William Joseph “Honeyboy” Willard Read More »
This Side of the Law (1950) Richard L. Bare

David Cummings, a vagrant, is bailed out of prison by Philip Cagle, an lawyer, who hires him to impersonate Read More »
Desperate Search (1952) Joseph H. Lewis, Howard Keel

A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) Read More »
El jinete sin cabeza / The Headless Rider (1957)

A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won’t stay in its grave. Read More »
The Naked Maja (1958) Henry Koster, Ava Gardner

Love takes precedence over art and politics as Spanish painter Goya pines for an aloof duchess. Read More »
The Crowded Train / Manin densha (1957) Kon Ichikawa

Tamio Moroi graduates from a prestigious university and obtains a job at the Camel Brewery in a distant town. Read More »
Pokolenie / A Generation (1955) Andrzej Wajda

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, a generation of youth comes of age. Read More »