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Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
When in Rome (1952) Clarence Brown, Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, Joseph Calleia

An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest. Read More »
Le cas du Docteur Laurent (1957) Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel, Silvia Monfort

A not-so-young doctor tries to explain to women of the fifties(in a small village in the mountain) that painless childbirth is possible Read More »
Rough Shoot (1953) Robert Parrish, Joel McCrea, Laurence Naismith, Denis Lehrer

U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Robert Taine and his wife Cecily live in a village in England. Read More »
The Man Behind the Gun (1953) Felix E. Feist, Randolph Scott, Patrice Wymore, Dick Wesson

Posing as a schoolteacher, undercover government agent Ransome Callicut arrives in 1850’s California to gather intelligence Read More »