
Based on a true story, this film tells of a police chief hired to wipe out corruption in the Louisiana State Police. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
Ditch AKA Dobu (1954) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Jûkichi Uno

Toku, a factory worker (Taiji Tonoyama) gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), who then follows him home. Read More »
Five Men of Edo (1951) Oedo go-nin Otoko

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 »