En route to a job, New York based model Marsha Mitchell decides to stop for less than 24 hours Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Crosswinds (1951) Lewis R. Foster, John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Forrest Tucker
‘Jumbo’ Johnson hires Steve Singleton (and his boat, the “Seeker”) to search for pearls on the coast of New Guinea. Read More »
The Wings of Eagles (1957) John Ford, John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Dan Dailey
U.S. Navy pilot Frank ‘Spig’ Wead is a fun-loving and rowdy adventurer, but also a fierce proponent of Naval aviation. Read More »
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959) Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. Read More »
The Man from the Alamo (1953) Budd Boetticher, Glenn Ford, Julie Adams, Chill Wills
The Man From the Alamo manages to pack a few nuances and surprises in its traditional western plotline. Read More »
Oklahoma Annie (1952) R.G. Springsteen, Judy Canova, John Russell, Grant Withers
A storekeeper gets involved in cleaning up corruption in her town, and also hopes to attract the attention of the handsome new sheriff. Read More »
Date with Disaster (1957) Charles Saunders, Tom Drake, William Hartnell, Shirley Eaton
A car salesman and suspected safecracker Miles saves his fiancee Sue from those who would kidnap her. Read More »
Senso (1954) Luchino Visconti, Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti
Venezia, spring of 1866, in the last days of the Austrian occupation. Read More »
Call Me Mister (1951) Lloyd Bacon, Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny Thomas
G.I. Sergeant Shep Dooley, former stage star awaiting discharge in postwar Tokyo Read More »
No Trees in the Street (1959) J. Lee Thompson, Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom, Ronald Howard
Surrounded by new 1950s East End high-rise flats, a London detective thinks back to how different things were in the late 1930s. Read More »