U.S. Navy pilot Frank ‘Spig’ Wead is a fun-loving and rowdy adventurer, but also a fierce proponent of Naval aviation. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
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 »