Tag Archives: 1950s

In this amiable imitation Guys and Dolls, Alan Reed plays a big-time 1920s gangster who is rubbed out by his enemies. Read More »

When a body is found in the New Orleans docks, it’s pretty obvious that he died from gun shot wounds. Read More »

A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing. Read More »

Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Read More »

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart. Read More »

Admiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants for new developments. Read More »

Louise Mason is a young widow who fills her empty life with the task of becoming a children’s nurse. Read More »

A shipwrecked lass sets up housekeeping on a desert island and rescues female native from certain doom, thereby winning herself a Girl Friday. Read More »

In 1807, Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship the HMS Lydia on a perilous voyage around Cape Horn and into the Pacific. Read More »

June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a murder is committed. Read More »