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Tag Archives: 1950s
Loser Takes All (1956) Ken Annakin, Glynis Johns, Rossano Brazzi, Robert Morley

Bertrand is an accountant employed by a large London firm. Read More »
The Brain from Planet Arous (1957) Nathan Juran, John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller

Gor, a powerful criminal brain from the planet Arous, assumes the body of scientist Steve March. Read More »
The Mysterians (1957) Ishirô Honda, Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kôchi

Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on. Read More »
A Geisha (1953) Kenji Mizoguchi, Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu

In the post-war, the sixteen year-old teenager Eiko seeks out the geisha Miyoharu in the district of Gion Read More »
The Toughest Man Alive (1955) Sidney Salkow, Dane Clark, Lita Milan, Anthony Caruso

A U.S. agent diguises himself as a gunrunner to smash an international smuggling ring. Read More »
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1955) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Albin Skoda, Oskar Werner, Lotte Tobisch

This war drama film is a German-Austrian project in black-and-white and released in 1955. Read More »
Wide Boy (1952) Ken Hughes, Sydney Tafler, Susan Shaw, Ronald Howard

The title, in British police parlance of the day, defines a petty crook whose criminal activities are minor and legal-borderline Read More »
Wheel of Fate (1953) Francis Searle, Patric Doonan, Sandra Dorne, Bryan Forbes

Two brothers work in their invalid father’s repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. Read More »
The Runaway Bus (1954) Val Guest, Marianne Stone, Lionel Murton, Lisa Gastoni

When heavy fog prevents all aircraft from leaving London airport, a group of passengers take an airline bus Read More »