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Tag Archives: 1950s
Main Street AKA Calle Mayor (1956) Juan Antonio Bardem, Betsy Blair, José Suárez, Yves Massard
A couple of friends decide to have a good time and play a trick on an unmarried woman. Read More »
The King and I (1956) Walter Lang, Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno
Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has been contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. Read More »
Because You’re Mine (1952) Alexander Hall, Mario Lanza, Doretta Morrow, James Whitmore
An opera star who is drafted in the army thinks he has it made when he learns his sergeant is an opera buff Read More »
Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957) Richard Thorpe, Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Marcel Dalio
An expatriate American living in Madrid, former Air Force pilot Lloyd Tredman (Robert Taylor) Read More »
Elevator to the Gallows AKA Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (1957) Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly
The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers plotting Read More »
The Weapon (1956) Val Guest, Hal E. Chester, Herbert Marshall, Lizabeth Scott, Steve Cochran
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. Read More »
Northwest Territory (1951) Frank McDonald, Kirby Grant, Chinook, Gloria Saunders
Fort McKenzie prospector Pop Kellogg, just before the arrival of his newly-orphaned grandson Billy Read More »
The Champion AKA Shôri-sha (1957) Umetsugu Inoue, Yûjirô Ishihara, Keiji Itami, Mie Kitahara
Intersecting circles of obligation link a former boxer, the youth he vows to make a champion Read More »
The King’s Thief (1955) Robert Z. Leonard, Hugo Fregonese, Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, David Niven
Lady Mary’s father is innocently accused of treason and is executed. It is the king’s evil chancellor, the duke of Brampton Read More »