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Tag Archives: 1950s
The Colossus of New York (1958) Eugène Lourié, John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger

Jeremy Spensser, genius humanitarian, is killed in an accident just after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Read More »
Mambo (1954) Robert Rossen, Silvana Mangano, Michael Rennie, Vittorio Gassman

Silvana Mangano (a very lovely & sexy voiced actress) plays a young, poor Venetian woman, Giovanna Masetti. Read More »
Gunman’s Walk (1958) Phil Karlson

Widower Lee Hackett (Van Heflin), a cattle rancher who is a product of the old west Read More »
The Bamboo Prison (1954) Lewis Seiler, Robert Francis, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith

Corp. Brady (Brian Keith) an American soldier captured during the Korean War, is taken to a POF camp. Read More »
Neapolitan Turk (1953) Un turco napoletano

Cocheletti deputy promised to send Don Pasquale, ripe, rich, and fruit and vegetable merchant Sorrento Read More »
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 »