A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Appointment with a Shadow (1957) Richard Carlson, George Nader, Joanna Moore, Brian Keith
George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. Read More »
Fast Company (1953) John Sturges, Howard Keel, Polly Bergen, Marjorie Main
The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father’s stable, she inherited. Read More »
Plunder of the Sun (1953) John Farrow, Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina
An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist Read More »
Jirocho Fuji (1959) Kazuo Mori, Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizô Ichikawa, Shintarô Katsu
An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made “the ultimate Jirocho movie” about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in the Tokaido area. Read More »
Thunder Road (1958) Arthur Ripley, Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon
A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. Read More »
Battle Hymn (1957) Douglas Sirk, Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea
Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Read More »
The Hunchback of Paris (1959) André Hunebelle, Jean Marais, Bourvil, Sabine Sesselmann
Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. Read More »
Trapeze (1956) Carol Reed, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida
Mike Ribble was once a great trapeze artist – and the only to have completed a triple somersault – before his accident. Read More »
The Cranes Are Flying (1957) Mikhail Kalatozov, Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev
As the clouds of war spread over Russia during Germany’s surprise invasion in 1941, the fervent young lovers Read More »