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Tag Archives: 1950s
Summer with Monika (1953) Ingmar Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen

Harry Lund is a nineteen-year-old man who meets Monika, a romantic, reckless and rebellious seventeen-year-old, and they fall in love. Read More »
Silver Lode (1954) Allan Dwan, John Payne

Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode Read More »
The Great War (1959) Mario Monicelli, Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are conscripted, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. Read More »
Gift Horse (1952) Compton Bennett

In 1940, a mothballed American destroyer is commissioned in the Royal Navy. Read More »
The Deadly Mantis (1957) Nathan Juran, Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton

The calving of an Arctic iceberg releases a giant praying mantis, trapped in suspended animation since prehistoric times. Read More »
Sky Full of Moon (1952) Norman Foster, Carleton Carpenter, Jan Sterling, Keenan Wynn

Sky Full of Moon gets under way when Vegas gambling-joint owner Al (Keenan Wynn) rescues rodeo rider Harley Williams (Carleton Carpenter) from drowning. Read More »
African Treasure (1952) Ford Beebe, Johnny Sheffield, Laurette Luez, Martin Garralaga

Andy Barnes gets word by short wave that two of the three geologists who passed through his district some weeks before were known diamond smugglers Read More »
Tank Commandos (1959) Burt Topper, Donato Farretta, Robert Barron, Maggie Lawrence

A demolition squad searches for how the Germans are getting tanks across a river. Read More »
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 »