During the 1950s, a Texas oilman is visiting oil rich Venezuela. There he meets some old friends who own several oil derricks. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Pacific Destiny (1956) Wolf Rilla, Denholm Elliott, Susan Stephen, Felix Felton
Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. Read More »
Spy Chasers (1955) Edward Bernds, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey
Slip, Sach and the gang get mixed up in political intrigue when they try to help an exiled European king and his daughter regain the throne that is rightfully theirs.
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Just This Once (1952) Don Weis, Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone
Mark MacLene owes the IRS, the banks and others a lot of money. The problem is that his trust makes $1,000,000 a year, but he spends $150,000 every month. Read More »
Bell, Book and Candle (1958) Richard Quine, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon
Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar, Pyewacket. Read More »
Captive Women (1952) Stuart Gilmore, Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Gloria Saunders
In a post-apocalyptic New York City, three tribes of mutants (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver people) battle each other to survive. Read More »
Miss Robin Hood (1952) John Guillermin, Margaret Rutherford, Richard Hearne, Edward Lexy
Henry Wrigley is happy writing stories for a children’s’ comic. Then he meets Miss Honey, who encourages him to go into minor crime. Read More »
Escape From Fort Bravo (1953) John Sturges, William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe
A ruthless Union captain is renowned throughout his prison fort as the toughest soldier in the business Read More »
Here Come the Marines (1952) William Beaudine, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Hanley Stafford
The boys get drafted into the Marines. On their first day in basic training, their commanding officer discovers that Sach’s dad is an old war buddy of his Read More »
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) Joseph Pevney, James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer
Loose biography of actor Lon Chaney. Growing up with deaf parents, he learns what it is like to be different. Read More »