In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Sideshow (1950) Jean Yarbrough, Don McGuire, Tracey Roberts, John Abbott
A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins Read More »
The Gold of Naples AKA L’oro di Napoli (1954) Vittorio De Sica, Silvana Mangano, Sophia Loren, Eduardo De Filippo
Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Neapolitan episodes Read More »
Dracula in Istanbul AKA Drakula Istanbul’da (1953) Mehmet Muhtar, Annie Ball, Cahit Irgat, Ayfer Feray
A Istanbul lawyer named Azmi goes to Romania to meet with a Count named Dracula. Read More »
Sissi (1955) Ernst Marischka, Romy Schneider
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 »
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 »