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Tag Archives: 1950s
Crime and Punishment, USA (1959) Denis Sanders

Believing he can elude justice, a California law student murders an elderly pawnbroker, then matches wits with the detective on the case. Read More »
The Human Jungle (1954) Joseph M. Newman, Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling, Regis Toomey

Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled Read More »
Il maestro di Don Giovanni / Crossed Swords (1954) Milton Krims, Vittorio Vassarotti, Errol Flynn, Gina Lollobrigida, Nadia Gray

Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia’s duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Read More »
Home Town Story (1951) Arthur Pierson, Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, Marjorie Reynolds

Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. Read More »
Grip of the Strangler (1958) Robert Day, Boris Karloff, Anthony Dawson, Derek Birch

A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier Read More »
The Intimate Stranger (1956) Joseph Losey, Alec C. Snowden, Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy, Constance Cummings

A married movie studio executive’s life starts to unravel when he is stalked Read More »
Love from Paris / Monpti (1957) Helmut Käutner, Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Mara Lane

A poor 22 y.o. Hungarian man who’s recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 y.o. Parisian girl. Read More »
Bright Road (1953) Gerald Mayer, Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Harry Belafonte

A young teacher helps a troubled student who’s fascinated by a caterpillar’s metamorphosis. Read More »
Porgy and Bess (1959) Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr.

In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina Read More »