During the French Revolution, French national Lucie Manette (Dorothy Tutin) meets Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Not So Dusty (1956) Maclean Rogers, Bill Owen, Joy Nichols, Leslie Dwyer
Two Dustmen come into possession of a valuable book, thanks to a good deed. Read More »
7th Cavalry (1956) Joseph H. Lewis, Randolph Scott, Barbara Hale, Jay C. Flippen
Returning to Fort Lincoln, Captain Benson learns of Custer’s defeat at the Little Big Horn. Read More »
The Fireball (1950) Tay Garnett, Mickey Rooney, Pat O’Brien, Beverly Tyler
Johnny runs away from Father O’Hara’s orphanage and becomes a roller skating star with the help of Mary Reeves. Read More »
Altitude 7000 Meters: Four Hours of Terror AKA Kôdo nanasen metoru: kyôfu no yojikan (1959) Tsuneo Kobayashi, Ken Takakura, Kenji Imai, Naoko Kubo
Passengers on an airliner in flight are startled to discover that a killer Read More »
The Divided Heart (1954) Charles Crichton, Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell, Armin Dahlen
A three-year-old orphan is adopted by a German couple shortly after World War II. Read More »
The Oracle (1953) C.M. Pennington-Richards, Robert Beatty, Michael Medwin, Virginia McKenna
An Irish “oracle” foretells the next day’s track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar. Read More »
Policarpo AKA Policarpo ‘ufficiale di scrittura’ (1959) Mario Soldati, Renato Rascel, Carla Gravina, Romolo Valli
The action is focused at the end of the 19th century. Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works Read More »
The Law and Jake Wade (1958) John Sturges, Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens
Outlaw Clint Hollister escapes from jail with the help of Marshal Jake Wade, because once Clint did the same for him. Read More »
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) Robert Wise, Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane
The abuse Rocky Barbella endures at the hand of his father and subsequent run-ins with the law lead him in Read More »