Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Nella città l’inferno / …and the Wild Wild Women (1959) Renato Castellani, Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Myriam Bru, Drama
A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a non-coed, totally female prison environment. Read More »
Teenage Cave Man (1958) Roger Corman, Robert Vaughn, Darah Marshall, Leslie Bradley, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Robert Vaughn stars as a white 25-year-old teenage caveman with styled hair who seeks to discover what is in the uncharted jungles beyond his tribe’s campsite. Read More »
The Night Holds Terror (1955) Andrew L. Stone, Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A group of escaped convicts take over a suburban home to evade the ongoing police manhunt, making the lives of the family living there a nightmare. Read More »
Juke Box Rhythm (1959) Arthur Dreifuss, Jo Morrow, Jack Jones, Brian Donlevy, Drama, Musical
While in New York to select her coronation wardrobe, Princess Ann is photographed dancing with Riff Manton, son of impoverished producer George Manton. Read More »
The Lone Hand (1953) George Sherman, Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Alex Nicol, Western
A farmer, Zachary Hallock (Joel McCrea) & his son Joshua (Jimmy Hunt) try to establish new roots on their farm near a small western town victimized by outlaws. Read More »
Killer Shark (1950) Budd Boetticher, Roddy McDowall, Laurette Luez, Roland Winters, Adventure
A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting boat. Read More »
The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959) Irvin Berwick, Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon, Horror, Sci-Fi
The monster, which looks like a nastier version of “The Creature from the Black Lagoon,” invades a sleepy lighthouse town. Read More »
Flight to Hong Kong (1956) Joseph M. Newman, Rory Calhoun, Barbara Rush, Dolores Donlon, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony Dumont (Rory Calhoun) is attracted to a pretty novelist, Pamela Vincent (Barbara Rush), who returns the attention. Read More »
The Key (1958) Carol Reed, William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Drama, Romance, War
Not well equipped with weaponry, the tugs are sitting ducks for enemy fire. As such, the crew working the tugs have precarious lives, many with deep seated emotional problems. Read More »
Comanche (1956) George Sherman, Dana Andrews, Kent Smith, Nestor Paiva, Romance, Western
Indian scout Jim Read is picked by his commander to set up a meeting between Comanche Chief Quanah Parker and a representative from Washington to negotiate a peace treaty. Read More »
Eroica (1958) Andrzej Munk, Edward Dziewonski, Barbara Polomska, Ignacy Machowski, Comedy, Drama, War
Two sketches covering episodes from the World War II. In the first novel, “Scherzo alla polacca”, a shrewd son, trying to preserve his skin, ultimately becomes a hero and finds a reason for fighting. Read More »
Anne of the Indies (1951) Jacques Tourneur, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
LaRochelle, a former pirate captain, is caught by the British. To get his ship back, he works as a spy against other pirates, first of all Blackbeard and Providence. Read More »
Nel gorgo del peccato / Eternal Song of Love (1954) Vittorio Cottafavi, Elisa Cegani, Fausto Tozzi, Margot Hielscher, Drama
As Cottafavi himself said, “it is a story of love, death and drugs”. Read More »
Yorokobi mo kanashimi mo ikutoshitsuki / Times of Joy and Sorrow (1957) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Takahiro Tamura, Drama
Covering the years from 1932 through 1957, this is the story of the trials and tribulations of lighthouse keeper Keiji Sada and his wife Hideko Takamine. Read More »