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Tag Archives: 1950s
Never So Few (1959) John Sturges, Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford

Captain Tom Reynolds and his band of skilled OSS operatives are in WWII Burma to arm and train the Kachin natives. Read More »
The Buccaneer (1958) Anthony Quinn, Yul Brynner, Claire Bloom, Charles Boyer

During the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Read More »
The White Tower (1950) Ted Tetzlaff, Claude Rains, Glenn Ford, Alida Valli

The White Tower, a Matterhorn-like mountain in the Swiss Alps, has never been climbed. Read More »
The Lady Vampire AKA Onna kyûketsuki (1959) Nobuo Nakagawa, Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi

A woman who’s been missing for twenty years suddenly turns up alive, and looking not a day older than when she vanished. Read More »
Cuban Rebel Girls (1959) Barry Mahon, Errol Flynn, Beverly Aadland, John McKay

Errol Flynn, playing himself as a war correspondent, helps Fidel Castro overthrow Cuban dictator Batista. Read More »
Here Comes the Groom (1951) Frank Capra, Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith

Pete Garvey, foreign correspondent, has been running an impromptu adoption agency for war orphans in Paris Read More »
Harbor of Missing Men (1950) R.G. Springsteen, Richard Denning, Barbra Fuller, Steven Geray

A fishing-boat owner, Jim “Brooklyn” Gannon, cuts a deal with a gangster syndicate to deliver a load of contraband firearms. Read More »
Everything But the Truth (1956) Jerry Hopper, Maureen O’Hara, John Forsythe, Tim Hovey

Willie Taylor, small-town 4th-grade schoolboy, takes to heart his admired teacher’s words about truthfulness Read More »
A Hole of My Own Making AKA Jibun no ana no nakade (1955) Tomu Uchida, Rentarô Mikuni, Yumeji Tsukioka, Mie Kitahara

Amidst endless construction and aircraft noise, a family whose father died in the war slowly disintegrates Read More »