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Tag Archives: 1950s
Above and Beyond (1952) Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore

The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Read More »
The War of the Worlds (1953) Byron Haskin, Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne

Earth is under attack in the chilling Cold War classic “The War of the Worlds” (1953). Read More »
Romeo and Juliet (1954) Renato Castellani, Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Flora Robson

In Shakespeare’s classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy Read More »
Champagne for Caesar (1950) Richard Whorf

What happens when the man who knows everything goes on a quiz show that doubles your cash prize Read More »
På slaget åtte (1957) Nils R. Müller, Pål Skjønberg, Bab Christensen, Bernt Erik Larssen

A lawyer comes up with a devious plan to kill his half sister and frame another man for the crime. Read More »
A Man of Straw (1958) Pietro Germi, Luisa Della Noce, Franca Bettoia

Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Read More »
War and Peace (1956) King Vidor, Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven Read More »
Beast at Bay / La bête à l’affût (1959) Pierre Chenal, Françoise Arnoul, Henri Vidal, Gaby Sylvia

A cop’s widow is through with love and she spends her time collecting money for the orphans of the Police Read More »
The Five Pennies (1959) Melville Shavelson, Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong

Loring “Red” Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. Read More »