A gang of gunrunners is sought by both the Mexican Federales and the Yaqui Indians for different reasons – by the federal police to prevent the marauding tribes Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
An Affair to Remember (1957) Leo McCarey, Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning
Nickie Ferrante’s return to New York to marry a rich heiress is well publicized as are his many antics and affairs. Read More »
Problem Girls (1953) Ewald André Dupont, Helen Walker, Ross Elliott, Susan Morrow
While awaiting his certificate to practice medicine, John Page takes a position Read More »
Two Acres of Land AKA Do Bigha Zamin (1953) Bimal Roy, Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Rattan Kumar
A small Bengali landowner and his young son are in danger when their two-acre farmland Read More »
Calabuch (1956) Luis García Berlanga, Edmund Gwenn, Valentina Cortese, Juan Calvo
Professor Jorge Serra Hamilton, an American scientist specialist in the atomic bomb Read More »
Cell 2455, Death Row (1955) Fred F. Sears, William Campbell, R. Wright Campbell, Marian Carr
Whit, condemned and awaiting execution, reviews the events of his life that has brought him to Cell 2455 Read More »
Rumble on the Docks (1956) Fred F. Sears, James Darren, Laurie Carroll, Michael Granger
In 1950s Brooklyn, 17-year old Jimmy Smigelski, son of hard-working, honest Polish immigrants Read More »
I Married a Woman (1958) Hal Kanter, George Gobel, Diana Dors, Adolphe Menjou
Marshall Briggs, of the Sutton Advertising Agency, is hard-pressed to come up with an idea to follow his successful “Miss Luxenberg” Read More »
We Are the Lambeth Boys (1958) Karel Reisz, Jon Rollason, Tony Benson, Adrian Harding
Part of the British ‘Free Cinema’ movement, which included Lindsay Anderson’s ‘Every Day Except Christmas’ (daily life at Covent Garden fruit/vegetable market) Read More »
Bundle of Joy (1956) Norman Taurog, Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou
Kitschy musical remake of “Bachelor Mother”. Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store Read More »