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Tag Archives: 1950s
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956) Henry Hathaway, Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker

Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation Read More »
Munekata kyôdai / The Munekata Sisters (1950) Yasujirô Ozu, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara

Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. Read More »
Naked Alibi (1954) Jerry Hopper, Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry

Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Read More »
Bannerline (1951) Don Weis, Keefe Brasselle

A cub reporter finagled a fake front page showing a dying professor’s plan for civic reform. Read More »
Suzaki Paradise Red Light (1956) Yûzô Kawashima

A couple stand indecisively on a bridge in Asakusa. Tsutae and Yoshiji have lost confidence Read More »
The Purple Gang (1959) Frank McDonald

A teen-age rat pack of the Detroit slums, the Purple Gang, headed by psychotic William Joseph “Honeyboy” Willard Read More »
This Side of the Law (1950) Richard L. Bare

David Cummings, a vagrant, is bailed out of prison by Philip Cagle, an lawyer, who hires him to impersonate Read More »
Desperate Search (1952) Joseph H. Lewis

A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) Read More »
El jinete sin cabeza / The Headless Rider (1957)

A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won’t stay in its grave. Read More »