Tag Archives: 1950s

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 »

George La Main, just turned 17, suffers growing pains and is anxious to prove his manhood. Read More »

Soldiers Hayatenosuke Sasa and Kagami Yaheiji leave their besieged castle on a secret mission into the enemy camp. Read More »

In Peru in the eighteenth century. Camilla, the star of a theater company, hesitates between three men. Read More »

When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. Read More »

A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Read More »

Three short stories are introduced by author W. Somerset Maugham in the second of his anthology film trilogy. Read More »

In México City, a Cuban dancer from “Cabaret Changó” rescues a baby from a garbage can and decides to raise him, but her pachuco pimp gets in her way. Read More »

An expert African guide, Ken Duffield, thirsts for revenge against the leader of a gang of rebellious Mau Maus who killed his family while he was away. Read More »

Eager to land a journalistic position, Adam White goes to work as an advice-giving newspaper columnist. Read More »