Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Sin Alley AKA Bundfald (1957) Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt, Robert Saaskin, Birgitte Price, Ib Mossin, Ghita Nørby
Desperation has a good hold of the youngsters. There are no more than 30,000 teacherships. Read More »
The Black Chapel AKA Geheimaktion Schwarze Kapelle (1959) Ralph Habib, Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Ernst Schröder
1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities Read More »
Santiago (1956) Gordon Douglas, Alan Ladd, Rossana Podestà, Lloyd Nolan
In 1898, during the Cuban War of Independence from Spain, a former U.S. Cavalry Captain Read More »
Snow Country AKA Yukiguni (1957) Shirô Toyoda, Ryô Ikebe, Keiko Kishi, Kaoru Yachigusa
It’s a man’s world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. Read More »
Godzilla AKA Gojira (1954) Ishirô Honda, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada
When seventeen vessels blow-up and sink nearby Odo Island, Professor Kyohei Yamane, his daughter Emiko Yamane Read More »
For Better, for Worse (1954) J. Lee Thompson, Dirk Bogarde, Susan Stephen, Cecil Parker
In postwar London, young graduate Tony (Sir Dirk Bogarde) and his girlfriend Anne (Susan Stephen) decide to marry. Read More »
Twilight for the Gods (1958) Joseph Pevney, Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, Arthur Kennedy
Adapted by Ernest Gann from his own novel, Twilight for the Gods bears traces of Gann’s earlier The High and the Mighty. Read More »
Machine Gun Kelly (1958) Roger Corman, Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam
The film starts by showing a bank robbery orchestrated by Kelly and other partners, including his love interest. Read More »
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) Charles Martin, George Sanders, Yvonne De Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor
When Clementi Suborin is found murdered, his secretary recounts to the police the story of his rise from Czech refugee to ultra-rich New Yorker. Read More »