
The Man From the Alamo manages to pack a few nuances and surprises in its traditional western plotline. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
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 »