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Tag Archives: 1950s
The Crowded Train / Manin densha (1957) Kon Ichikawa

Tamio Moroi graduates from a prestigious university and obtains a job at the Camel Brewery in a distant town. Read More »
Pokolenie / A Generation (1955) Andrzej Wajda

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, a generation of youth comes of age. Read More »
Anna (1951) Alberto Lattuada, Silvana Mangano, Gaby Morlay

Anna, a former sexy nightclub dancer who has become a hospital nurse, is on the verge of taking the veil. Read More »
Escape from San Quentin (1957) Fred F. Sears, Johnny Desmond

Singing star Johnny Desmond (Calypso Heat Wave, China Doll) goes dramatic in this Sam Katzman production. Read More »
Quatermass 2 (1957) Val Guest, Brian Donlevy, John Longden

Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for Moon colonisation his project to colonize the Moon Read More »
The Kingdom and the Beauty / Jiang shan mei ren (1959)

This is a musical about a young emperor who is lured via stories told to a place called Kiang-Nan by his royal tutor. Read More »
Neapolitan Carousel (1954) Ettore Giannini, Léonide Massine

Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples Read More »
Points and Lines (1958) Tsuneo Kobayashi, Hiroshi Minami

Based on Matsumoto Seicho’s classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group Read More »
The Shiralee (1957) Leslie Norman, Peter Finch, Dana Wilson

Based on a best-selling Australian novel by D’Arcy Niland, The Shiralee stars Peter Finch as an Aussie “swagman,” or poacher Read More »