The young Emperor Franz Joseph is on his way to his summer residence at Ischl, where his birthday will be celebrated with a big party. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Fate of a Man AKA Sudba cheloveka (1959) Sergey Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko
The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. Read More »
Act of Love (1953) Anatole Litvak, Kirk Douglas, Dany Robin, Barbara Laage
A former soldier on holiday in the French Riviera recalls his time in France during WWII, and his love for a French peasant woman. Read More »
Sugarfoot (1951) Edwin L. Marin, Randolph Scott, Adele Jergens, Raymond Massey
on land he hopes to buy and cultivate. He meets saloon-girl Reva Cairn and town merchant Don Miguel Wormser. Read More »
Our Man in Havana (1959) Carol Reed, Alec Guinness, Maureen O’Hara, Burl Ives
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. Read More »
Have Rocket — Will Travel (1959) David Lowell Rich, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita
The 3 Stooges are cleaners at a spaceport when they accidentally take off and land on Venus. Read More »
Tread Softly Stranger (1958) Gordon Parry, Diana Dors, George Baker, Terence Morgan
An irresistible temptress causes trouble between two brothers when the more handsome charismatic ones turns up, leading to robbery and death. Read More »
Revolt in the Big House (1958) R.G. Springsteen, Gene Evans, Robert Blake, Timothy Carey
After eluding numerous convictions for ten years, New York City notorious criminal Lou Gannon is finally convicted for armed robbery and murder. Read More »
Days and Night AKA Ayyam wa layali (1955) Henry Barakat, Abdel Halim Hafez, Eman, Mahmoud El-Meliguy
Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez stars in director Henri Barakat’s romantic musical drama about an athletic young man Read More »
Death of a Salesman (1951) Laslo Benedek
Based on Arthur Miller’s famous play. Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point Read More »