A young couple in love hopes to have some privacy but the widespread housing problems don’t allow them to find any place to stay. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Two Eyes, Twelve Hands / Do Ankhen Barah Haath (1957) Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre, Sandhya, Ulhas
Progressive, reform-minded young warden gets permission to take six surly murderers from prison to dilapidated country farm Read More »
The Girl with the Cat Eyes / Das Mädchen mit den Katzenaugen (1958) Eugen York, Vera Tschechowa, Joachim Fuchsberger, Wolfgang Preiss
Police Commissioner Norbert Wilms investigates an auto theft ring in Hamburg following the murder of an inspector. Read More »
The Wide Blue Road / La grande strada azzurra (1957) Gillo Pontecorvo, Maleno Malenotti, Yves Montand, Alida Valli, Francisco Rabal
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Read More »
The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo / Il brigante di Tacca del Lupo (1952) Pietro Germi, Amedeo Nazzari, Cosetta Greco, Saro Urzì
In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers Read More »
Way of Youth (1959) Michel Boisrond, Françoise Arnoul, Bourvil, Lino Ventura
This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation Read More »
Crime and Punishment, USA (1959) Denis Sanders
Believing he can elude justice, a California law student murders an elderly pawnbroker, then matches wits with the detective on the case. Read More »
The Human Jungle (1954) Joseph M. Newman, Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling, Regis Toomey
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled Read More »
Il maestro di Don Giovanni / Crossed Swords (1954) Milton Krims, Vittorio Vassarotti, Errol Flynn, Gina Lollobrigida, Nadia Gray
Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia’s duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Read More »
Home Town Story (1951) Arthur Pierson, Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, Marjorie Reynolds
Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. Read More »