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Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
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 »