
When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Wolf (1955) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Sanae Takasugi

A few years after the surrender of Japan in the Second World War. Read More »
Raw Edge (1956) John Sherwood, Rory Calhoun, Yvonne De Carlo, Mara Corday

In the lawless Oregon country of 1842, local magnate Gerald Montgomery decrees that any unattached woman belongs to the first taker. Read More »
Passage Home (1955) Roy Ward Baker, Anthony Steel, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento

Cargo Ship takes on a female passenger. Can the Captain contain the crew and himself as they hit stormy conditions and emotions explode? Read More »
The Lucky Adventurer Oda Nobunaga (1959) Toshikazu Kôno, Katsuo Nakamura, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Eitarô Shindô

Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. Read More »
One Life (1958) Alexandre Astruc, Maria Schell, Christian Marquand, Pascale Petit

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. Read More »
Susana (1951) Luis Buñuel, Rosita Quintana, Fernando Soler, Víctor Manuel Mendoza

An unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for very, very wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Read More »
Ice Cold in Alex (1958) J. Lee Thompson, John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms

A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. Read More »
No Time for Tears (1957) Cyril Frankel, Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms

Anna Neagle steps down from her expensive musical extravaganzas to play a recognizable human being in No Time for Tears. Read More »
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) Daniel Mann, Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore

For two decades Doc and Lola Delaney avoided coming to terms with what Doc considered a “shot gun” marriage. Read More »