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Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
Black Crown AKA La corona negra (1951) Luis Saslavsky, María Félix, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman
A young engineer, Andrés, welcomes a young woman, María, who suffers from amnesia. Read More »
Francis Goes to the Races (1951) Arthur Lubin, Donald O’Connor, Piper Laurie, Cecil Kellaway
The owner of a talking mule, now a horse-breeder, gets involved with gangsters. Read More »
Prelude to Fame (1950) Fergus McDonell, Guy Rolfe, Kathleen Byron, Kathleen Ryan
While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician Read More »
Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich (1958) Bill Colleran, Louis De Rochemont III, Bjørn Amvik, Arne Andersen, Per Antonsen
Windjammer, the first presentation in CINEMIRACLE, is the record of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic Read More »
The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957) George Marshall, Audie Murphy, Kathryn Grant, Hope Emerson
Murphy deserts the Union Army to warn former Texas neighbors of impending Indian attacks triggered by Army massacre. Read More »