An American with a shady past, John Gilmore and an Irishman without a conscience, Robert Emmett Donovan Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Interrupted Melody (1955) Curtis Bernhardt, Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore
Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. Read More »
Bring Your Smile Along (1955) Blake Edwards, Frankie Laine, Keefe Brasselle, Constance Towers
Nancy Willows (Constance Towers), pretty blonde high school teacher, writes song lyrics which spark the careers of struggling young pianist-composer Martin Adams (Keefe Brasselle’) Read More »
Silk Stockings (1957) Rouben Mamoulian, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige
A musical remake of Ninotchka: After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris Read More »
Statues Also Die (1953) Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker, Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII
Documentary about the disintegration and desecration of black African art by white Europeans Read More »
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) Michael Anderson, James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the “Black & Tans,” special British forces given to harsh measures. Read More »
The Return of Don Camillo (1953) Julien Duvivier, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Édouard Delmont
After his battles with the communist mayor Peppone, Don Camillo is sent in exile by his bishop in a remote village. Read More »
Scaramouche (1952) George Sidney, Stewart Granger, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker
Andre-Louis Moreau is a nobleman’s bastard in the days of the French revolution. Read More »
The Night of the Hunted (1959) Bernard-Roland, Philippe Clay, Juliette Mayniel, Sami Frey
A young and hapless Antwerp thief, working for a gang led by leather-clad Philippe Clay, quarrels with his boss and kills him during a fight. Read More »
Mara Maru (1952) Gordon Douglas, Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr
Greg Mason, salvage diver in the Philippines, finds his partner Andy drunk and raving about treasure. Read More »