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Tag Archives: 1950s
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

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

Kitschy musical remake of “Bachelor Mother”. Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store Read More »
Happy Anniversary (1959) David Miller, David Niven, Mitzi Gaynor, Carl Reiner

Living in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of New York City, lawyer Chris Walters and his wife Read More »
The Ambassador’s Daughter (1956) Norman Krasna, Olivia de Havilland, John Forsythe, Myrna Loy

Joan Fisk, daughter of the American ambassador to France, is bored with entertaining the wives of visiting V.I.P.s Read More »
Wuthering Heights AKA Abismos de pasión (1954) Luis Buñuel, Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado

Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister Read More »