A middle-aged widower (Guinness) and his son go to Paris on vacation and try to find wives for each other in this charming romantic comedy. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Tokyo Twilight / Tôkyô boshoku (1957) Yasujirô Ozu, Setsuko Hara, Ineko Arima, Chishû Ryû
Two sisters live with their father. The younger sister is embroiled in an affair and becomes pregnant. Read More »
Enchanted Island (1958) Allan Dwan, Dana Andrews, Jane Powell, Don Dubbins
Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold. Read More »
Wings of Danger / Dead on Course (1952) Terence Fisher, Zachary Scott, Robert Beatty, Naomi Chance
When Richard Van Ness tries to ground dashing pilot Nick Talbot, his girlfriend’s brother Read More »
The Unfaithfuls / Le infedeli (1953) Mario Monicelli, Steno, Gina Lollobrigida, May Britt, Pierre Cressoy
An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce Read More »
Casanova’s Big Night (1954) Norman Z. McLeod, Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Dalton
Italy, 1757. Lowly tailor Pippo Popolino disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance attractive widow Francesca. Read More »
Teacher’s Pet (1958) George Seaton, Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young
James Gannon, the hardboiled city editor of a newspaper, believes that the only way to learn the business Read More »
Lonely Heart Bandits (1950) George Blair, Dorothy Patrick, John Eldredge, Barbra Fuller
Two con artists join forces and pose as brother and sister. Read More »
The Stranger Came Home / The Unholy Four (1954) Terence Fisher, Paulette Goddard, William Sylvester, Patrick Holt
Philip Vickers mysteriously reappears to his wife and friends during a party at her upscale country Read More »
The Egyptian (1954) Michael Curtiz, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney
In eighteenth dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe (Edmund Purdom), a poor orphan Read More »