An office secretary from Scranton, Pennsylvania (Rosalind Hayes) sets out to find her great-grandfather’s hidden treasure. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Pork Chop Hill (1959) Lewis Milestone, Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn
Grim story of one of the major battles of the Korean War. While negotiators are at work in Panmunjom trying Read More »
At War with the Army (1950) Hal Walker, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mike Kellin
Alvin Corwin is low man on the totem pole, and goes from one mishap to another at an army training camp in World War II. Read More »
Valentino (1951) Lewis Allen, Eleanor Parker
Largely fictional account of the last few years in the life of matinée idol Rudolph Valentino. Read More »
Assignment Redhead (1956) Maclean Rogers, Richard Denning, Carole Mathews, Ronald Adam
Murderous master criminal Dumetrius flies to London from post-war Berlin plying his trade in counterfeit money and false travel documents. Read More »
Across the Bridge (1957) Ken Annakin, Rod Steiger, David Knight, Bernard Lee
On the run from the US police after being charged with embezzlement Read More »
The Cow and I AKA La vache et le prisonnier (1959) Henri Verneuil, Fernandel, Pierre-Louis, Ellen Schwiers
In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way. Read More »
Black Hand (1950) Richard Thorpe, Gene Kelly, J. Carrol Naish, Teresa Celli
Now grown-up, Johnny Columbo returns to New York from Italy having sworn a vendetta against Read More »
Julius Caesar (1953) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason
Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans murder Caesar, because they believe his ambition will lead to tyranny. Read More »
Dangerous Cargo (1954) John Harlow, Susan Stephen, Jack Watling, Karel Stepanek
Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks Read More »