After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Nancy Goes to Rio (1950) Robert Z. Leonard, Ann Sothern, Jane Powell, Barry Sullivan
A mother and daughter compete over the same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man. Read More »
Mother (1952) Mikio Naruse, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Eiji Okada
Adopted from a prize-winning school essay on the subject of ‘My Mother,’ upon being widowed a mother with Read More »
Gog (1954) Herbert L. Strock, Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall
Scientists working on induced hibernation for space travel are killed, apparently by machines acting independently. Read More »
The Last Hunt (1956) Richard Brooks, Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Lloyd Nolan
Set in the early 1880s, this is the story of one of the last buffalo hunts in the Northwest. Read More »
Something to Live For (1952) George Stevens, Joan Fontaine, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright
An actress becomes an alcoholic after being jilted. She is aided by an Alcoholics Anonymous member with whom she has an affair; however, he is married. Read More »
Summer Clouds (1958) Mikio Naruse, Chikage Awashima, Michiyo Aratama, Kumi Mizuno
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 »
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 »