Canadian Mountie Rod Webb (Kirby Grant) has been assigned to the case where three messengers carrying Kenmore Mine payrolls have been robbed and murdered. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Qivitoq (1956) Erik Balling, Poul Reichhardt, Astrid Villaume, Gunnar Lauring
In this visual masterpiece and first Oscar nominated Danish film, young teacher Eva arriving in Greenland Read More »
The Year Long Road AKA La strada lunga un anno (1958) Giuseppe De Santis, Silvana Pampanini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Massimo Girotti
The plot is set in an underdeveloped and remote area of a fictitious country Read More »
Hans Christian Andersen (1952) Charles Vidor, Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmaire
The inimitable Danny Kaye stars as famed storyteller Hans Christian Andersen in this charming fictionalized biopic that blends music Read More »
Native Son (1951) Pierre Chenal, Richard Wright, Jean Wallace, Nicholas Joy
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family Read More »
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 »