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Tag Archives: 1950s
The Overcoat AKA Shinel (1959) Aleksey Batalov, Rolan Bykov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Aleksandra Yozhkina

The story centers on the life and death of Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Read More »
The Flame and the Arrow (1950) Jacques Tourneur, Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas

Twelfth-century Lombardy lies under the iron heel of German overlord Count Ulrich ‘The Hawk’ Read More »
Sweet Anna AKA Édes Anna (1958) Zoltán Fábri, Mari Töröcsik, Mária Mezei, Károly Kovács

The young maid, Anna starts to work for the noble Vizy family. Mrs Vizy is proud of the hard-working servant but doesn’t treat her well. Read More »
David and Bathsheba (1951) Henry King, Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey

Though David has all the wealth, power, wives & children inherent for the King of Israel Read More »
When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) John Ford, Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, Colleen Townsend

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero Read More »
The Band of Honest Men AKA La banda degli onesti (1956) Camillo Mastrocinque, Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Giulia Rubini

Janitor Antonio Buonocore joins his friend Lo Turco e Cardone, to print some counterfeit bills. Read More »
Gang War (1958) Gene Fowler Jr., Charles Bronson, Kent Taylor, Jennifer Holden

A Los Angeles high-school teacher’s problems begin when he happens to witness a gangland killing and agrees to identify the murderers. Read More »
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953) Henry Levin, Betty Grable, Dale Robertson, Thelma Ritter

Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore’s canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. Read More »
Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) Leo McCarey, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins

Harry Bannerman (Paul Newman), a Connecticut suburbanite who becomes involved in various shenanigans Read More »