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Tag Archives: 1950s
The Seven Little Foys (1955) Melville Shavelson, Bob Hope, Milly Vitale, George Tobias
Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. Read More »
Journey to Freedom (1957) Robert C. Dertano, Jacques Scott, Geneviève Aumont, George Graham
An Eastern European escapes to America, where Communist agents try to track him down. Read More »
Advance Patrol (1957) Kazuo Mori, Kenji Sugawara, Yoshirô Kitahara, Ryûji Shinagawa
January 1905, Manchuria. The Russo-Japanese War has been going on for nearly a year. Read More »
The Bonnie Parker Story (1958) William Witney, Dorothy Provine, Jack Hogan, Richard Bakalyan
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Read More »
What Price Glory (1952) John Ford, James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, Dan Dailey
In 1918 France, Captain Flagg commands a disreputable company of Marines; his new top sergeant is his old friendly enemy, Quirt. Read More »
Yesterday’s Enemy (1959) Val Guest, Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage Read More »
Farewells AKA Pozegnania (1958) Wojciech Has, Maria Wachowiak, Tadeusz Janczar, Gustaw Holoubek
The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family Read More »
Air of Paris AKA L’air de Paris (1954) Marcel Carné, Jean Gabin, Arletty, Roland Lesaffre
Once a professional boxer, Victor now has only one ambition: to coach a young amateur boxer to become a true champion. Read More »
The Six Men (1951) Michael Law, Harold Warrender, Olga Edwardes, Peter Bull
In this crime drama, two Scotland Yard investigators try to break up “The Six Men,” a notorious gang of jewel thieves. Read More »