Novelist Peter Darwin is engaged to heiress Kay March. When he accidentally kills Claire, his former mistress, during a quarrel Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Sabre Jet (1953) Louis King, Robert Stack, Coleen Gray, Richard Arlen, Drama, War
The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner ready when they return. Read More »
Where No Vultures Fly (1951) Harry Watt, Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Harold Warrender, Drama, Adventure
A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to create a national park to protect them. Read More »
The Flying Scot (1957) Compton Bennett, Lee Patterson, Kay Callard, Alan Gifford, Crime, Drama
Ronnie, earning very little from his own exploits, gathers together a band of villains to carry out a robbery on ‘The Flying Scotsman’ passenger train. Read More »
Golden Ivory (1954) George P. Breakston, Robert Urquhart, John Bentley, Susan Stephen, Adventure
British settlers travel to Masai country in Kenya. Read More »
Pier 5, Havana (1959) Edward L. Cahn, Cameron Mitchell, Allison Hayes, Eduardo Noriega, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Yank comes to Havana in search of an old friend who disappeared during the Cuban Revolution, and discovers a group of Batista sympathizers plotting to overturn Castro. Read More »
Operation Petticoat (1959) Blake Edwards, Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O’Brien, Comedy, Romance, War
A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and captain it. Read More »
Bride of the Gorilla (1951) Curt Siodmak, Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr., Raymond Burr, Horror
Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife (Barbara Payton). Read More »
Chicago Syndicate (1955) Fred F. Sears, Dennis O’Keefe, Abbe Lane, Paul Stewart, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. Read More »
Private Hell 36 (1954) Don Siegel, Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two detectives are investigating a robbery in which $300,000 was taken. Read More »