A car salesman and suspected safecracker Miles saves his fiancee Sue from those who would kidnap her. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
They Who Dare (1954) Lewis Milestone, Dirk Bogarde, Denholm Elliott, Akim Tamiroff
In Greece, during World War II, a small group of British commandoes Read More »
Soldier of Fortune (1955) Edward Dmytryk, Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie
During the 1950s an American journalist disappears in China. Read More »
Destination Gobi (1953) Robert Wise, Richard Widmark, Don Taylor, Max Showalter
A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II Read More »
A Town Like Alice (1956) Jack Lee, Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji Takaki
In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. Read More »
Night Was Our Friend (1951) Michael Anderson, Elizabeth Sellars, Michael Gough, Ronald Howard
Martin’s plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. Read More »
Waterfront (1950) Michael Anderson, Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, Avis Scott
A good-for-nothing sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. Read More »