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 »
Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
Destinées (1954) Christian-Jaque, Jean Delannoy, Claudette Colbert, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Mirko Ellis
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times Read More »
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 »