Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Beat Generation (1959) Charles F. Haas, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren, Ray Danton
Soon after, we learn that Hess is a serial rapist at large in Los Angeles. Read More »
April in Paris (1952) David Butler, Doris Day, Ray Bolger, Claude Dauphin
Miss Ethel ‘Dynamite’ Jackson is a chorus girl who mistakingly receives an invitation from the State Department Read More »
The Baron of Arizona (1950) Samuel Fuller, Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Sokoloff
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. Read More »
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951) Crane Wilbur, Steve Cochran, David Brian, Philip Carey
Another in a unrelated series of Warner’s penitentiary tours in three different decades. Read More »
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Naima Wifstrand, Jullan Kindahl, Max von Sydow
The main character is an orphaned young woman who is about to be married off to an unappealing but rich old man Read More »
Cattle Drive (1951) Kurt Neumann, Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. Read More »
The Venetian (1958) Ingmar Bergman, Folke Sundquist, Eva Stiberg, Maud Hansson
A young beautiful man from Milan arrives at the carnival in Venice. He meets two flirtatious women. Read More »
Wichita (1955) Jacques Tourneur, Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. Read More »
Giant of Marathon (1959) Jacques Tourneur, Bruno Vailati, Steve Reeves, Mylène Demongeot, Sergio Fantoni
This classical peplum tells a fictitious story set in 490 BC, the time of the Medic Wars during which Persian armies sweep the Ancient world. Read More »