
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Pickup (1951) Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon

Low-budget, tabloid-lurid story with high camp value of older man falling for much younger beauty who’s busy figuring out how she can kill him now that they’re married. Read More »
Tom Thumb (1958) George Pal, Russ Tamblyn, June Thorburn, Peter Sellers
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The Forest Queen grants the wish of Jonathan, the woodcutter, and his wife, Anna. Read More »
Quo Vadis (1951) Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann, Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn

Returning to Rome after three years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her, though as a Christian she wants nothing to do with a warrior. Read More »
Wiretapper (1955) Dick Ross, Bill Williams, Georgia Lee, Douglas Kennedy

Jin Vaus, Jr., U.S. Army electronics expert, is sentenced to a stockade term for unauthorized use of government equipment. Read More »
Sombrero (1953) Norman Foster, Ricardo Montalban, Pier Angeli, Vittorio Gassman

Adapted from the book, “Mexican Village,” by Josefina Niggli, the film tells three interwoven love stories against the background of a feud between two villages. Read More »
Sins of Jezebel (1953) Reginald Le Borg, Paulette Goddard, George Nader, Eduard Franz

The aging Ahab, king of Israel, comes under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming pagan woman named Jezebel and Read More »
The Maze (1953) William Cameron Menzies, Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Katherine Emery

A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle’s castle in the Scottish highlands. Read More »
Il grido (1957) Michelangelo Antonioni, Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair

After living seven years with the mechanic Aldo, having a daughter with him, the simple woman Irma is informed that her absent husband had just died in Sydney. Read More »
Julius Caesar (1950) David Bradley, Harold Tasker, Charlton Heston, David Bradley

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Read More »