When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Reluctant Debutante (1958) Vincente Minnelli, Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon
Jimmy and Sheila Broadbent (Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall), welcome to London Jimmy’s 17-year-old daughter, Jane (Sandra Dee). Read More »
Moonfleet (1955) Fritz Lang, Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood
Somewhere in the 18th century Great Britain, noble but penniless young boy John Mohune is sent by his dying mother to Moonfleet Read More »
Shadow in the Sky (1952) Fred M. Wilcox, Ralph Meeker, Nancy Reagan, James Whitmore
Burt served in the Marines during the war, but now he is confined to an asylum. Read More »
South Sea Sinner (1950) H. Bruce Humberstone, Macdonald Carey, Shelley Winters, Luther Adler
A tramp steamer lands sick crewman Jake Davis on rubber-growing island Oraka Read More »
Carmen Jones (1954) Otto Preminger, Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey
At an all-black army camp, civilian parachute maker and “hot bundle” Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Read More »
Before the Deluge AKA Avant le déluge (1954) André Cayatte, Antoine Balpêtré, Paul Bisciglia, Bernard Blier
Self-centered parents of the 50’s targeted by drama in which teenagers panicking after burglary supposed to finance the run from the Third World War. Read More »
The Last Frontier (1955) Anthony Mann, Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston
Crude and uncivilized backwoods trapper Jed Cooper and his two partners sign up as scouts in a remote Oregon army fort Read More »
Black Orpheus AKA Orfeu Negro (1959) Marcel Camus, Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira
In the heady atmosphere of Rio’s carnival, two people meet and fall in love. Read More »
Si Versailles m’était conté (1954) Sacha Guitry, Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV Read More »