Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck) witnesses a murder in the apartment opposite her bedroom window. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Battle of Roses (1950) Mikio Naruse, Kuniko Miyake, Setsuko Wakayama, Yôko Katsuragi
In Japan, after the death of Mr. Masago, her wife Satomi Masago loses the family’s company “Lily Cosmetic” Read More »
The Violent Men (1955) Rudolph Maté, Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
A Union ex-officer plans to sell up to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancee Read More »
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956) Henry Hathaway, Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation Read More »
Munekata kyôdai / The Munekata Sisters (1950) Yasujirô Ozu, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara
Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. Read More »
Naked Alibi (1954) Jerry Hopper, Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry
Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Read More »
Bannerline (1951) Don Weis, Keefe Brasselle
A cub reporter finagled a fake front page showing a dying professor’s plan for civic reform. Read More »
Suzaki Paradise Red Light (1956) Yûzô Kawashima
A couple stand indecisively on a bridge in Asakusa. Tsutae and Yoshiji have lost confidence Read More »
The Purple Gang (1959) Frank McDonald
A teen-age rat pack of the Detroit slums, the Purple Gang, headed by psychotic William Joseph “Honeyboy” Willard Read More »
This Side of the Law (1950) Richard L. Bare
David Cummings, a vagrant, is bailed out of prison by Philip Cagle, an lawyer, who hires him to impersonate Read More »