A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Iron Petticoat (1956) Ralph Thomas, Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, Noelle Middleton
Captain Vinka Kovelenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. Read More »
The Pride and the Passion (1957) Stanley Kramer, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren
The story in this movie deals with the perseverance of Spaniards to take back their country from the French Read More »
Tea and Sympathy (1956) Vincente Minnelli, Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson
Tom Lee is a sensitive boy of 17 whose lack of interest in the “manly” pursuits of sports Read More »
Serpent Island (1954) Tom Gries, Sonny Tufts, Mary Munday, Tom Monroe
An office secretary from Scranton, Pennsylvania (Rosalind Hayes) sets out to find her great-grandfather’s hidden treasure. Read More »
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 »