Awaking one morning out of a drunken stupor, composer Richard Morton can’t shake the feeling he has murdered a woman during the night. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Guilt Is My Shadow (1950) Roy Kellino, Elizabeth Sellars, Patrick Holt, Peter Reynolds
Linda (Elizabeth Sellars) is driven to the breaking point by her no-good husband. One day, he pushes her too far, and she kills him. Read More »
Johnny Rocco (1958) Paul Landres, Richard Eyer, Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray
Gangster and police look for a gangster’s son who witnessed a murder. Read More »
The Black Vampire (1953) Román Viñoly Barreto, Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada, Nathán Pinzón
This clever “feminist” reworking of Fritz Lang’s classic M focuses on the mothers of children stalked by a deranged pedophile. Read More »
The Crooked Circle (1957) Joseph Kane, John Smith, Fay Spain, Steve Brodie
A young prizefighter finds himself being squeezed on all sides to throw a fight. Read More »
El Suavecito (1951) Fernando Méndez, Víctor Parra, Aurora Segura, Dagoberto Rodríguez
The playboy Roberto “El Suavecito” takes very comfortable working relationship with Lupita, despite his constant infidelities. Read More »
Town on Trial (1957) John Guillermin, John Mills, Charles Coburn, Barbara Bates
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. Read More »
The Second Woman (1950) James V. Kern
In flashback from a ‘Rebecca’-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Read More »
The Big Night (1951) Joseph Losey, John Drew Barrymore, Preston Foster, Joan Lorring
George La Main, just turned 17, suffers growing pains and is anxious to prove his manhood. Read More »
Sword for Hire (1952) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Rentarô Mikuni, Danshirô Ichikawa
Soldiers Hayatenosuke Sasa and Kagami Yaheiji leave their besieged castle on a secret mission into the enemy camp. Read More »