
Jan Stewart, a new teacher at The Oaks, a boys’ boarding school, becomes instructor and mother-figure to a class of twelve. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Snow Dog (1950) Frank McDonald, Kirby Grant, Chinook, Elena Verdugo

Rod and Chinook are tracking a mysterious white wolf, thought to have killed several of the local traders. Read More »
The Long Gray Line (1955) John Ford, Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara, Robert Francis

The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer Read More »
Pearl of the South Pacific (1955) Allan Dwan, Virginia Mayo, Dennis Morgan, David Farrar

Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Read More »
Security Risk (1954) Harold D. Schuster, John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Keith Larsen

Sking at a Big Bear resort are Dr. Lanson, an atomic scientist, Ted Nolan, Donna Weeks and her unscrupulous sister, Peggy. Read More »
The French Line (1953) Lloyd Bacon, Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Arthur Hunnicutt

Texas heiress Mary ‘Mame’ Carson strikes oil twice in one day, and her wealth scares away her fiance Read More »
Good Morning AKA Ohayô (1959) Yasujirô Ozu, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû

This movie takes a look at a Westernized suburban area in Japan in the late ’50s. Read More »
The Great Jesse James Raid (1953) Reginald Le Borg, Willard Parker, Barbara Payton, Tom Neal

Jesse James, retired and living under an assumed name in St. Joseph, Missouri, agrees over the protests Read More »
Madame White Snake / Byaku fujin no yoren (1956) Shirô Toyoda, Ryô Ikebe, Shirley Yamaguchi, Kaoru Yachigusa

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form. Read More »
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves AKA Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs (1954) Jacques Becker, Fernandel, Samia Gamal, Dieter Borsche

Rich oriental lord Cassim’s cheeky servant Ali Baba was sent to buy a meaty girl-slave Read More »