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Tag Archives: 1950s
Operation Pacific (1951) George Waggner, John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond

The submarine USS Thunderfish successfully completes a secret mission to rescue a group of orphans on a remote Pacific island. Read More »
Fifth District (1958) Julio Coll, Alberto Closas, Arturo Fernández, Jesús Colomer

Five men commit a robbery and flee each by their side. Later they meet in a local to distribute the money. Read More »
Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) Lewis Gilbert, Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner

Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War II. Read More »
Violent Playground (1958) Basil Dearden, Stanley Baker, Anne Heywood, David McCallum

Struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a young and dangerous pyromaniac. Read More »
Forty Guns (1957) Samuel Fuller, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger

An authoritarian rancher, Barbara Stanwyck, who rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. Read More »
River Beat (1954) Guy Green, Phyllis Kirk, John Bentley, Robert Ayres

A London police inspector is patrolling the river looking for smugglers, when he becomes attracted to a woman working as a ship’s radio operator. Read More »
Decameron Nights (1953) Hugo Fregonese, Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Godfrey Tearle

The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio’s own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. Read More »
Great Day in the Morning (1956) Jacques Tourneur, Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman

After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Read More »
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) Jean Delannoy, Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn, Jean Danet

Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Read More »