Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
A Lady Without Passport (1950) Joseph H. Lewis, Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig
There is a problem with foreign nationals using Cuba as a convenient jumping off point for illegal entry into the United States. Read More »
Excuse My Dust (1951) Roy Rowland, Buster Keaton, Red Skelton, Sally Forrest, Macdonald Carey
Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Read More »
Summer with Monika (1953) Ingmar Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen
Harry Lund is a nineteen-year-old man who meets Monika, a romantic, reckless and rebellious seventeen-year-old, and they fall in love. Read More »
Silver Lode (1954) Allan Dwan, John Payne, Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode Read More »
The Great War (1959) Mario Monicelli, Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are conscripted, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. Read More »
Gift Horse (1952) Compton Bennett
In 1940, a mothballed American destroyer is commissioned in the Royal Navy. Read More »
The Deadly Mantis (1957) Nathan Juran, Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton
The calving of an Arctic iceberg releases a giant praying mantis, trapped in suspended animation since prehistoric times. Read More »
Sky Full of Moon (1952) Norman Foster, Carleton Carpenter, Jan Sterling, Keenan Wynn
Sky Full of Moon gets under way when Vegas gambling-joint owner Al (Keenan Wynn) rescues rodeo rider Harley Williams (Carleton Carpenter) from drowning. Read More »
African Treasure (1952) Ford Beebe, Johnny Sheffield, Laurette Luez, Martin Garralaga
Andy Barnes gets word by short wave that two of the three geologists who passed through his district some weeks before were known diamond smugglers Read More »