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Tag Archives: 1950s
Johnny Guitar (1954) Nicholas Ray, Joan Crawford

Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone. Read More »
Days of Love (1954) Giorni d’amore

Two young peasants, Angela and Pasquale, promised for several years, are postponing marriage for financial reasons. Read More »
I Love Melvin (1953) Don Weis, Donald O’Connor

Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. Read More »
And Yet We Live (1951) Dokkoi ikiteru

A portrait of Japan, five years after its defeat in WWII, still in the grip of unemployment Read More »
The Best of Everything (1959) Jean Negulesco

With her unofficial fiancé Eddie Harris studying in England for a year, Radcliffe educated Caroline Bender decides to get her first ever job as a secretary Read More »
Pharaoh’s Curse (1957) Lee Sholem

Archaeologists in Egypt find one of their crew has been turned into a blood sucking mummy after they have unleashed a three thousand year curse by entering a Pharaoh’s tomb. Read More »
Tribute to a Bad Man (1956) Robert Wise

Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Read More »
One Minute to Zero (1952) Tay Garnett

During the early days of the Korean War, U.S. Army colonel Steve Janowski is one of the military advisers training Read More »
Thunder on the Hill (1951) Douglas Sirk

A condemned woman awaiting execution becomes stranded at a convent hospital during a flood. Read More »