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Tag Archives: 1950s
Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959) Kaneto Shindô, Jûkichi Uno, Nobuko Otowa, Harold Conway
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru (“Lucky Dragon No. 5”) sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. Read More »
The Tall Men (1955) Raoul Walsh, Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan
Two brothers, Ben and Clint, join a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. Read More »
The Big Operator (1959) Charles F. Haas, Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren
Bill Gibson is Little Joe’s nemesis and is one of the men who can testify that he saw the labor boss in an incriminating Read More »
Love in the City (1953) Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Rita Josa, Rosanna Carta, Enrico Pelliccia
Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. Read More »
L’homme et l’enfant (1956) Raoul André, Eddie Constantine, Juliette Gréco, Folco Lulli
The “man” is Eddie Constantine; the “child” is Eddie’s adopted daughter. Read More »
Hurricane Smith (1952) Jerry Hopper, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, James Craig
Hurricane Smith and his marooned sailors escape from a South Seas island by stealing the ship of Capt. Raikes who’s come to the island in search of slaves. Read More »
The Devil’s Disciple (1959) Guy Hamilton, Alexander Mackendrick, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon Read More »
Mardi Gras (1958) Edmund Goulding, Pat Boone, Christine Carère, Tommy Sands
A military school cadet Boone wins a date with a French movie goddess (Carère) who happens to be the queen of the “Mardi Gras” parade. Read More »
The Affairs of Julie (1957) Helmut Käutner, Liselotte Pulver, Paul Hubschmid, Bernhard Wicki
Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. Read More »