In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Elena and Her Men (1956) Jean Renoir, Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer
Polish countess Elena falls in love to a French radical party’s candidate, a general, in pre-World War I Paris, but another officer pines for her. Read More »
Domenica è sempre domenica (1958) Camillo Mastrocinque, Mario Riva, Lorella De Luca, Alberto Sordi
Una trasmissione televisiva lancia un proclama per dilettanti: “Se sapete parlare, saprete anche cantare”. Read More »
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) Russell Rouse, Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George Read More »
A Lawless Street (1955) Joseph H. Lewis, Randolph Scott, Angela Lansbury, Warner Anderson
A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town. Read More »
Womans World (1954) Jean Negulesco, Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Clifton Webb
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive’s wife is crucial to her husband’s success Read More »
Friendly Persuasion (1956) William Wyler, Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religous sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. Read More »
Sabrina (1954) Billy Wilder, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Read More »
The Wind, Woman and Road (1958) Tai Katô, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Rentarô Mikuni, Satomi Oka
A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity Read More »
On the Waterfront (1954) Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly Read More »