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Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
Aida (1953) Clemente Fracassi, Sophia Loren

Aida, featuring the actress Sophia Lauren, was a film adaptation of a theatre performance written by Verdi. Read More »
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 »