
Reckless playboy Robert Merrick (Rock Hudson) is in a boat accident, and his condition requires a resuscitator to save his life. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Fat Man (1951) William Castle, J. Scott Smart, Julie London, Rock Hudson

An innocent dentist is murdered, the only apparent motive to steal a set of dental x-rays. Read More »
Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue (1953) Harold French, Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice

After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures Read More »
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 »