Fred Peloux nicknamed Chéri, the handsome son of Charlotte Peloux, a former demimondaine, lives in the small circle of his mother’s friends, all high class prostitutes past their best. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Idol on Parade (1959) John Gilling, William Bendix, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Comedy
‘Jeep’ is a rising star who is drafted into the Army and spends the rest of the time trying to avoid being an ‘Idol on Parade’ Read More »
Rogue River (1951) John Rawlins, Rory Calhoun, Peter Graves, Frank Fenton, Crime, Drama, Thriller
The story of two step-brothers, raised by their father, the chief of police, in a small Oregon lumber town. Read More »
Four Sided Triangle (1953) Terence Fisher, Barbara Payton, James Hayter, Stephen Murray, Romance, Sci-Fi
Bill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a “reproducer” which can exactly duplicate any object. Read More »
Nachts auf den Straßen / The Mistress (1952) Rudolf Jugert, Hans Albers, Hildegard Knef, Lucie Mannheim, Drama
An aging truck driver finds smuggled money and becomes involved with a hijacking crowd. Read More »
Count Five and Die (1957) Victor Vicas, Jeffrey Hunter, Annemarie Düringer, Nigel Patrick, Drama, History, Thriller, War
American and British counter-espionage combine to convince the Germans the cross-channel invasion will be in the Netherlands instead of France. Read More »
Face to Face (1952) John Brahm, Bretaigne Windust, James Mason, Gene Lockhart, Michael Pate, Western, Drama
Two stories. In the first, a sea captain has to conceal a man’s presence aboard ship from his crew. Read More »
The Well (1951) Leo C. Popkin, Gwendolyn Laster, Richard Rober, Maidie Norman, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
In a racially mixed American town, a 5-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Read More »
Nightfall (1956) Jacques Tourneur, Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
There is money missing from a bank job, an attractive model, an insurance investigator, and two extremely dangerous thugs. Read More »