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Tag Archives: 1950s
Vendetta (1950) Mel Ferrer, Stuart Heisler, Faith Domergue, George Dolenz, Donald Buka

The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica. Read More »
Thunder Bay (1953) Anthony Mann, James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland

In 1946, ex-Navy engineer Steve Martin comes to a Louisiana town with a dream: to build a safe platform for offshore oil drilling. Read More »
A Room for Rent AKA Kashima ari (1959) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Nobuko Otowa, Ikio Sawamura

The story follows the various tenants living in a multi-room tenement on a hill overlooking the city of Osaka. Read More »
A Lion Is in the Streets (1953) Raoul Walsh

Colorful bayou peddler Hank Martin marries pretty teacher Verity, who finds that the rural poor all love Hank. Read More »
King Creole (1958) Michael Curtiz, Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau

Having flunked graduation for a second time and needing cash to support his crabby (and thus unemployed) father Read More »
Tamango (1958) John Berry, Dorothy Dandridge, Curd Jürgens, Jean Servais

A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. Read More »
The Silent World / Le monde du silence (1956)

This pioneering nature documentary investigates aquatic habitats in various locations around the world. Read More »
Elegy of the North / Banka (1957) Heinosuke Gosho, Yoshiko Kuga, Masayuki Mori, Mieko Takamine

A young woman falls for a middle aged business man, but things get complicated when she also starts having feelings for his wife. Read More »
Women’s Prison (1955) Lewis Seiler, Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore

During the 1950s, two women inmates are sent to a maximum security state prison. Read More »