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Tag Archives: 1950s
Combat Squad (1953) Cy Roth, John Ireland, Lon McCallister, Hal March
A plotless shot-on-the-lot and sound-stage Korean War entry that is even below the standard Read More »
Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) Lewis Gilbert, Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh
Clever fortune-hunter Edward Bare (Sir Dirk Bogarde), with a penchant for murder Read More »
Hindle Wakes (1952) Arthur Crabtree, Leslie Dwyer, Lisa Daniely, Brian Worth
While on seaside holiday with her girlfriend Mary, a pretty factory worker named Jenny is attracted to Alan Read More »
Epilogue / Epilog: Das Geheimnis der Orplid (1950) Helmut Käutner, Horst Caspar, Bettina Moissi, O.E. Hasse
The journalist Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. Read More »
Man from Shimizu / Shimizu Minato no meibutso otoko: Enshûmori no Ishimatsu (1958) Masahiro Makino, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Hitomi Nakahara, Yumiko Hasegawa
Adventures of Mori no Ishimatsu, a famous member of Jirocho gang. Read More »
Piagol (1955) Kang-cheon Lee, Kyeong-hie No, Ye-chun Lee, Jin Kyu Kim
A group of communist guerillas encounter jealousy and rivalry among themselves because of the presence Read More »
Diplomatic Passport (1954) Gene Martel, Marsha Hunt, Paul Carpenter, Henry Oscar
A diplomat and his wife arrive in London, and are soon involved in a series of confusing Read More »
To Paris with Love (1955) Robert Hamer, Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray
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 »
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 »