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Tag Archives: 1950s
Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955) Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien

In 1927 Kansas City Pete Kelly and his jazz band play nightly at a speakeasy. Read More »
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953) Roy Rowland, Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried

The bane of adolescent Bart Collins’ existence is the piano lessons he is forced to take under the tutelage of Dr. Terwilliker Read More »
Innocent Meeting (1959) Godfrey Grayson, Sean Lynch, Beth Rogan, Raymond Huntley

A teenager on probation is falsely accused of robbery. A young girl, knowing the truth Read More »
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) Charles Lamont, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Robert Paige

Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Read More »
Armored Car Robbery (1950) Richard Fleischer, Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman

Dave Purvis takes pride in being unknown to the law, though famed among fellow crooks Read More »
Spionage (1955) Franz Antel, Ewald Balser, Barbara Rütting, Gerhard Riedmann

Oberst Alfred Redl heads the military intelligence department of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Read More »
Carnival in Moscow (1956) Eldar Ryazanov, Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Yuri Belov

This Russian musical manages to satirize Soviet life without ever offending the Politburo. Read More »
I’ll Get By (1950) Richard Sale, June Haver, William Lundigan, Gloria DeHaven

Updated version of “Tin Pan Alley” concerns two songwriters Read More »
Flesh and the Woman (1954) Robert Siodmak, Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Claude Pascal, Arletty

Pierre Martel is a brilliant lawyer in Paris who has fallen in love with a ravishing Italian girl Read More »