Tag Archives: 1950s

A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local villagers, is “shanghaied” into transporting the whole village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer. Read More »

In 1942 submarine commander Jeff Conway secretly photographs Japanese aircraft carriers in the Coral Sea. Read More »

Two separate episodes that have in common the door which separates good from evil. Read More »

Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. Read More »

Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in Sweden for a lumber company meets Ina, a local nature-girl type, falls in love, has an affair, tries to convert her to “civilization”, but ends up getting her killed by superstitious villagers instead.
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A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. Read More »

A French woman and a Japanese man have an affair while she is in Japan making a film about peace and the impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, The man, an architect, lost his family in the bombing. Read More »

An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. Read More »

A typesetter is an amateur stage director, and his niece and an employee are stage actors. When they have an opportunity to go professional, differences arise between the two men. Read More »

The third and final film in the Headless Rider series directed by horror master Chano Urueta.
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In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles of Crisby Dale, and his sister Meg, have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of their father’s true identity. Read More »

Gunnery Sergeant Jim Moore is one of the toughest Drill Instructors on Parris Island. But he’s got a thorn in his side: Pvt. Owens, who always seems to foul up when the pressure’s on. Read More »

Jeff Warren, a Korean War vet just returning to his railroad engineer’s job, boards at the home of co-worker Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec’s beautiful daughter. Read More »

During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of weapons. Meanwhile, there’s a strike in the city and the Nazis are trying to suppress it violently. The factory becomes the scene of fighting between the Germans and the partisans but the latter, aided by the workers, will be able to get the better.
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Three Marines take shore leave in San Francisco during World War II. Frankie O’Neill visits his lower-class dysfunctional family; Nico Kantaylis visits his pregnant fiancée; and the upper-class Alan Newcombe visits his high-living playgirl girlfriend.
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