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 »
Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
Lilli Marlene (1950) Arthur Crabtree, Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott, Richard Murdoch
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle’s café in Benghazi, Libya Read More »
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 »