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Tag Archives: 1950s
Destination Piovarolo AKA Destinazione Piovarolo (1956) Domenico Paolella, Irene Cefaro, Marisa Merlini, Totò

Antonio La Quaglia, after three years of waiting, finally gets a job as stationmaster. Read More »
Hell Squad (1958) Burt Topper, Wally Campo, Brandon Carroll, Fred Gavlin

During World War II, a squad of five American soldiers become lost in Tunisia and are killed one by one in fights with German units. Read More »
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) Richard Quine, Judy Holliday, John Williams, Paul Douglas

Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. Read More »
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 »