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Tag Archives: 1950s
The Line of Destiny (1956) Lester James Peries, Somapala Dharmapriya, Myrtle Fernando, Shesha Palihakkara
A sprawling portrait of rural life in Sri Lanka; the story revolves around a boy Read More »
Anna Lucasta (1958) Arnold Laven, Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis Jr., Frederick O’Neal
When wild child Anna Lucasta (Kitt) is banished from the family home by her self-righteous father Read More »
Navajo (1952) Norman Foster, Francis Kee Teller, John Mitchell, Mrs. Kee Teller
A young Navajo Indian boy is caught up in the conflict of cultures when he rejects the white man’s school. Told in semi-documentary style. Read More »
Law and Disorder (1958) Charles Crichton, Michael Redgrave, Robert Morley, Ronald Squire
When Percy Brand (Sir Michael Redgrave), a habitual confidence trickster Read More »
The White Sheik (1952) Federico Fellini, Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo
Moments after the newlywed couple of the fastidious office employee Ivan and his young and pure wife Wanda Read More »
Winter Twilight (1957) Stanislaw Lenartowicz, Wlodzislaw Ziembinski, Maria Kierzkowa, Zygmunt Zintel
Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife Read More »
The Citizen (1952) Ritwik Ghatak, Ajit Banerjee, Kali Bannerjee, Gangapada Basu
Ramu,a fresh graduate is searching for a job like many others in post-Partition Kolkata. Read More »
Road to the Stars (1957) Pavel Klushantsev, Georgi Solovyov, Leonid Khmara, Georgi Kulbush
Released one month after the launch of Sputnik 1, Klushantsev’s trailblazing visualisation of the past Read More »
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) Sidney Gilliat
The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan Read More »