Abe Saperstein, owner/manager of the world-famous “Harlem Globetrotters”, an all-Negro professional basketball team Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
On Dangerous Ground (1951) Nicholas Ray
Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects Read More »
Operation Haylift (1950) William Berke, Bill Williams, Ann Rutherford, Tom Brown
Eighteen snowstorms in 27 days hit the Rocky Mountain and upper Great Plains states in December 1948-January 1949. Read More »
Summer Stock (1950) Charles Walters
As a favor to her actress sister Abigail, New England farmer Jane Falbury allows a group of actors use her barn as a theater for their play. Read More »
08/15 Part 2 (1955) Paul May, O.E. Hasse, Rolf Kutschera, Emmerich Schrenk
Winter 1942: Like thousands of other German soldiers, Asch and Vierbein have ended up at the Eastern front. Read More »
Woman They Almost Lynched (1953) Allan Dwan, John Lund, Brian Donlevy, Audrey Totter
During the Civil War, Border City is a town laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border at the base of the Ozark mountains. Read More »
The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953) Alvin Ganzer, F. Hugh Herbert, Leo Genn, Don Taylor, Gene Barry
In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen Read More »
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) John Sturges, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
After a long career as a lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp decides to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. Read More »
Tuesday’s Guest (1950) Jacques Deval, Bernard Blier, Michel Auclair, Madeleine Robinson
Charles is a good husband; he is not handsome but he contents himself with his collection of stamps, his slippers and his crepes. Read More »
Tennessee’s Partner (1955) Allan Dwan, John Payne, Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming
A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess Read More »