Tag Archives: 1950s

An authoritarian rancher, Barbara Stanwyck, who rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. Read More »

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 »

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 »

After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Read More »

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

Major Jim “Lance” Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps Read More »

Returning to New Orleans, following four years of army service in Texas in the 1840s Read More »

After a crime is committed during the Nazi era in the Reeperbahn area of Hamburg, the aspiring local leader Read More »

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 »

Chicagoan Nick Conover received a suspended sentence for being caught joyriding in a stolen car, with his driver’s license suspended indefinitely. Read More »