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Tag Archives: 1950s
Listen to the Roar of the Ocean AKA Kike wadatsumi no koe: Nippon senbotsu gakusei shuki (1950) Hideo Sekigawa, Hajime Izu, Yasumi Hara, Akitake Kon
Kike wadatsumi no koe: Nippon senbotsu gakusei shuki is a 1950 black and white Japanese war drama Read More »
Gangster Boss AKA Le grand chef (1959) Henri Verneuil, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Papouf
In Paris, scoundrel mates Paolo and Antoine Venturen hope to get rich quick by asking ransom fro rich Mr. Jumelin’s preteen son Eric. Read More »
Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958) Howard W. Koch, Mickey Rooney, Patricia Breslin, Fay Holden
Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip Read More »
Damn Citizen (1958) Robert Gordon, Keith Andes, Margaret Hayes, Lynn Bari
Based on a true story, this film tells of a police chief hired to wipe out corruption in the Louisiana State Police. Read More »
Dance Hall (1950) Charles Crichton, Natasha Parry, Jane Hylton, Diana Dors
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Read More »
An Inlet of Muddy Water AKA Nigorie (1953) Tadashi Imai, Akiko Tamura, Yatsuko Tan’ami, Ken Mitsuda
Three short tales from stories by Ichiyo Higuchi. Read More »
Laughing Anne (1953) Herbert Wilcox, Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker
Based on Conrad’s short story of a red-headed beauty of the eighteen-eighties who was a singer Read More »
Death in Small Doses (1957) Joseph M. Newman, Peter Graves, Mala Powers, Chuck Connors
A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers. Read More »
The Wayward Bus (1957) Victor Vicas, Joan Collins, Jayne Mansfield, Dan Dailey
Dame Joan Collins, Jayne Mansfield, and Dan Dailey star in this engaging drama based on a novel by John Steinbeck. Read More »