
In the lawless Oregon country of 1842, local magnate Gerald Montgomery decrees that any unattached woman belongs to the first taker. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
Fighting Trouble (1956) George Blair, Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, Adele Jergens

“Sach” has become a camera fiend so, in the pursuit of some ready cash, “Duke” takes him and his photographs to the editor of the New York Morning Blade, Mr. Ray Vance. Read More »
The House of the Arrow (1953) Michael Anderson, Oskar Homolka, Robert Urquhart, Yvonne Furneaux

A rich old lady dies in bed and leaves all of her money to her recently adopted daughter, who is quickly accused and exonerated of her murder. Read More »