
Johnny runs away from Father O’Hara’s orphanage and becomes a roller skating star with the help of Mary Reeves. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
The Mummy (1959) Terence Fisher, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux

In the 1890s a team of British archaeologists discover the untouched tomb of Princess Ananka Read More »
The Living Coffin AKA El grito de la muerte (1959) Fernando Méndez, Gastón Santos, María Duval, Pedro de Aguillón

A cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires. Read More »
Song of the Rivers / Das Lied der Ströme (1954) Joop Huisken, Joris Ivens, Alex McCrindle, Ernst Busch, Paul Robeson

A Communist supported essay film, centering on great rivers of the world such as the Amazon Read More »