Hajj Mitwalli is keen to acquire money and land. His daughter Naimah falls in love with Hasan Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Battle Circus (1953) Richard Brooks, Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson, Keenan Wynn
Nurse Lt. Ruth McGara is assigned to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) unit near the front lines of the Korean War. Read More »
Tanganyika (1954) André De Toth, Van Heflin, Ruth Roman, Howard Duff
In 1903 Kenya, tough colonist John Gale is leading a safari to bring in escaped murderer Abel McCracken Read More »
Mad Emperor: Ludwig II AKA Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs (1955) Helmut Käutner, O.W. Fischer, Marianne Koch, Paul Bildt
King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament’s will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in wars. Read More »
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? AKA Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben (1959) Frank Wisbar, Joachim Hansen, Wilhelm Borchert, Wolfgang Preiss
1942. First lieutenant Wisse, young and still idealistic, is sent to the Eastern front where a renewed German offensive is in full swing. Read More »
Sleepless AKA La anam (1957) Salah Abouseif, Faten Hamamah, Maryam Fakhruddin, Omar Sharif
‘I Never Sleep’ (also called ‘Sleepless’) is the story of Nadia Lotfi (Faten Hamama), a teenage girl Read More »
The Far Country (1954) Anthony Mann, James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet
In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity Read More »
Small Town Girl (1953) László Kardos, Jane Powell, Farley Granger, Ann Miller
Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. Read More »
Ride Lonesome (1959) Budd Boetticher, Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts
A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Read More »
Woman on the Run (1950) Norman Foster, Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott), sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris (Robert Keith) Read More »