
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 »
Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
The Sea Hornet (1951) Joseph Kane, Rod Cameron, Adele Mara, Lorna Gray

“The Sea Hornet” was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo Read More »
Okuni to Gohei (1952) Mikio Naruse, Michiyo Kogure, Tomoemon Otani, Sô Yamamura

Kogure is the widow of an assassinated samurai and Otani was that man’s pupil. Read More »
Where To? AKA Ila Ayn (1957) Georges Nasser, Laura Azar, Tannous Dik, Shakib Khouri

A family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. Read More »
It Should Happen to You! (1954) George Cukor, Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford

Gladys Glover has just lost her modelling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. Read More »
The Littlest Outlaw (1955) Roberto Gavaldón, Pedro Armendáriz, Joseph Calleia, Rodolfo Acosta

Filmed in Mexico, The Littlest Outlaw was produced for Walt Disney Studios by Larry Lansburgh Read More »
Something of Value (1957) Richard Brooks, Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller

Even though Peter and Kimani grow up together, Kimani soon finds that different races are treated differently. Read More »
Up Front (1951) Alexander Hall, David Wayne, Tom Ewell, Marina Berti

Based on the famed W.W.II cartoons: Lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe, on the Italian front Read More »