Sad story of a waif, Gelsomina, who is sold by her mother to Zampano for 10,000 lire and a few kilos of food. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Day of the Trumpet / Cavalry Command (1958) Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero, John Agar, Pancho Magalona, Alicia Vergel
An American cavalry brigade is sent to occupy a small Filipino village in 1902 and quell guerilla resistance in the surrounding jungle. Read More »
Botany Bay (1952) John Farrow, Alan Ladd, James Mason, Patricia Medina
In 1787 prisoners from London’s Newgate Gaol are to be shipped to New South Wales. Read More »
Reach for the Sky (1956) Lewis Gilbert, Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 Read More »
The Decks Ran Red (1958) Andrew L. Stone, James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford
Danger and suspense sail the high seas in this nautical thriller that some commentators call uncommonly fierce for its time. Read More »
Breakaway (1956) Henry Cass, Tom Conway
When Johnny Matlock whisks away a cold war secret from under the noses of Berlin’s top secret agents Read More »
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) Frank Launder, Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, John Turnbull
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. Read More »
Please Believe Me (1950) Norman Taurog
Alison Kirbe of London, receives a telegram from Texas, that she has inherited a livestock ranch. Read More »
Les louves / Demoniac (1957) Luis Saslavsky, François Périer
Gervais and his friend Bernard, two prisoners of war, manage to escape from the camp where they are held. Read More »
The Strange One (1957) Jack Garfein, Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Peter Mark Richman
Jocko De Paris, cadet leader in a Southern military academy, so manipulates events that George Avery, Jr., son of the school’s executive officer, is found drunk and expelled. Read More »