In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Three Secrets (1950) Robert Wise, Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman, Drama
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. Read More »
Some Came Running (1958) Vincente Minnelli, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Drama, Romance
In the post-war, the alcoholic and bitter veteran military and former writer Dave Hirsch returns from Chicago to his hometown Parkman, Indiana. Read More »
City That Never Sleeps (1953) John H. Auer, Gig Young, Mala Powers, William Talman, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. Read More »
Fear and Desire (1953) Stanley Kubrick, Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky, Drama, Thriller, War
A ficticious war in an unidentified country provides the setting for this drama. Four soldiers survive the crash-landing of their plane to find themselves in a forest six miles behind enemy lines. Read More »
Tommy the Toreador (1959) John Paddy Carstairs, Tommy Steele, Janet Munro, Sidney James, Comedy, Musical
Tommy is a happy sailor, travelling the world, singing his favourite songs. When he visits Spain, he gets mistaken for a famous bullfighter. Read More »
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) Terence Fisher, Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A remake of “The Man in Half Moon Street” (1945) (qv.). Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Read More »
Red Sundown (1956) Jack Arnold, Rory Calhoun, Martha Hyer, Dean Jagger, Western
When his life is saved in a shootout by a fellow gunman whose life he in turn had saved, Alex Longmire promises to give up his way of life. Read More »
Flight Nurse (1953) Allan Dwan, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker, Arthur Franz, Biography, Drama, War
A routine film on the surface, Flight Nurse is quite original in showing war from the point of view of a nurse who is as comely as as she is generous. Read More »
O. Henry’s Full House (1952) Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Fred Allen, Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain, Drama
“O. Henry’s Full House” is a film divided in five segments telling five tales in the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Read More »