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 »
Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
Trouble in the Glen (1954) Herbert Wilcox, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Forrest Tucker
Major Jim “Lance” Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps Read More »
The Gambler from Natchez (1954) Henry Levin, Dale Robertson, Debra Paget, Thomas Gomez
Returning to New Orleans, following four years of army service in Texas in the 1840s Read More »
The Axe of Wandsbek (1951) Falk Harnack, Erwin Geschonneck, Käthe Braun, Gefion Helmke
After a crime is committed during the Nazi era in the Reeperbahn area of Hamburg, the aspiring local leader Read More »
Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952) Raoul Walsh, Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix
In 1674, “reformed” pirate Sir Henry Morgan is a high official in Jamaica, but Edward Maynard hopes to win a large reward by proving Morgan still dabbles in piracy. Read More »
April Love (1957) Henry Levin, Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Dolores Michaels
Chicagoan Nick Conover received a suspended sentence for being caught joyriding in a stolen car, with his driver’s license suspended indefinitely. Read More »
South Seas Adventure (1958) Carl Dudley, Richard Goldstone, Diane Beardmore, Marlene Lizzio, Tommy Zahn
The fifth in a series of Cinerama travelogues—and not a Documentary since the vast majority of the film, aside from the scenery, is comprised of fictional stories. Read More »
Tom Browns Schooldays (1951) Gordon Parry, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, James Hayter
A faithful rendition of the Thomas Hughes book of life at the famed Rugby School for Boys in 1834, when Dr. Thomas Arnold Read More »