Toku, a factory worker (Taiji Tonoyama) gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), who then follows him home. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Five Men of Edo AKA Oedo go-nin Otoko (1951) Daisuke Itô, Tsumasaburô Bandô, Utaemon Ichikawa, Isuzu Yamada
During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto, samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate Read More »
Its Always Fair Weather (1955) Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
Ted, Doug, and Angie are three ex-G.I.s who vow to meet again at a New York bar on October 11, 1955. Read More »
The Drunkard AKA O methystakas (1950) Yorgos Tzavellas, Orestis Makris, Dimitris Horn, Billy Konstadopoulou
After losing his son in WW2, a poor cobbler has become a drunkard Read More »
Sharks and Small Fish AKA Haie und kleine Fische (1957) Frank Wisbar, Hansjörg Felmy, Sabine Bethmann, Wolfgang Preiss
Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive. Read More »
Battle of the V-1 (1958) Vernon Sewell, Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina, Milly Vitale
This forgotten war adventure centers on the secret Nazi missile installation of the V1 Rocket. Read More »
Black Crown AKA La corona negra (1951) Luis Saslavsky, María Félix, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman
A young engineer, Andrés, welcomes a young woman, María, who suffers from amnesia. Read More »
Francis Goes to the Races (1951) Arthur Lubin, Donald O’Connor, Piper Laurie, Cecil Kellaway
The owner of a talking mule, now a horse-breeder, gets involved with gangsters. Read More »
Prelude to Fame (1950) Fergus McDonell, Guy Rolfe, Kathleen Byron, Kathleen Ryan
While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician Read More »
Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich (1958) Bill Colleran, Louis De Rochemont III, Bjørn Amvik, Arne Andersen, Per Antonsen
Windjammer, the first presentation in CINEMIRACLE, is the record of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic Read More »