In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Distant Journey AKA Daleká cesta (1950) Alfréd Radok, Blanka Waleská, Otomar Krejca, Viktor Ocásek
Distant Journey follows Hana, a Jewish eye doctor who falls in love and marries a Gentile named Toník. Read More »
Hey Boy! Hey Girl! (1959) David Lowell Rich, Louis Prima, Keely Smith, James Gregory
Meant primarily as TV fare, this standard, song-filled romantic drama stars Louis Prima as himself Read More »
Quel fantasma di mio marito (1950) Camillo Mastrocinque, Walter Chiari, Mady Saint-Michel, Medy Saint-Michel
The 26 year old Gianni Alberti is a journalist so lazy that he gets laid off, but Vivia, enterprising wife, makes him rehire by the Editor who Read More »
The Shiinomi School AKA Shiinomi Gakuen (1955) Hiroshi Shimizu, Kyôko Kagawa, Yukiko Shimazaki, Jûkichi Uno
A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Read More »
The Tall T (1957) Budd Boetticher, Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O’Sullivan
Having lost his horse in a bet, Pat Brennan hitches a ride with a stagecoach carrying newlyweds, Willard and Doretta Mims. Read More »
Call of the Klondike (1950) Frank McDonald, Kirby Grant, Chinook, Anne Gwynne
A brother and sister are running a phony gold mine scam in the Klondike, which leads to murder. Read More »
Valerie (1957) Gerd Oswald, Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel
John Garth (Sterling Hayden) is tried for critically wounding his wife Valerie (Anita Ekberg) Read More »
Woman Obsessed (1959) Henry Hathaway, Susan Hayward, Stephen Boyd, Barbara Nichols
After her husband dies in a fire, a woman is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Read More »
The Vagabond AKA Awaara (1951) Raj Kapoor, Prithviraj Kapoor, Nargis
Raju lives as a derelict as a result of being estranged from his bitter father, a district judge Read More »