The last eighteen years in the life of Jesse James, showing his home life in Missouri, his experiences with Quantrill’s raiders, his career of banditry with his brother Frank Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Topeka (1953) Thomas Carr, Bill Elliott, Phyllis Coates, Rick Vallin
After a series of bank robberies, Jim Levering (Bill Elliott) as Wild Bill Elliott) and his gang decide to hide out for awhile in Deer Creek Read More »
The Frogmen (1951) Lloyd Bacon, Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill
World War II drama in which Richard Widmark, as Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence, replaces the popular commanding officer of a group of underwater demolition divers. Read More »
Chain of Events (1958) Gerald Thomas, Dermot Walsh, Susan Shaw, Lisa Gastoni
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks all sorts of complications. Read More »
The Desert Song (1953) H. Bruce Humberstone, Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Steve Cochran
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Read More »
Reprisal! (1956) George Sherman, Guy Madison, Felicia Farr, Kathryn Grant
New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. Read More »
Lure of the Wilderness (1952) Jean Negulesco, Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith
A young girl and her father, who was unjustly accused of murder, seek refuge in a Georgia swamp until they are befriended by a trapper who penetrates the swamp in search of his dog. Read More »
Beauties of the Night (1952) René Clair, Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida
Young Claude, teacher by day, is a struggling composer by night. Alas, everyone around him seems to prefer noise to music. Read More »
Houseboat (1958) Melville Shavelson, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Tom Winters, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. Read More »
Crime Against Joe (1956) Lee Sholem, John Bromfield, Julie London, Henry Calvin
Joe Manning returned from the Korean War a changed man and became a Bohemian artist, supported by his understanding mother and distrusted by others. Read More »