The businessman Ogata Shingo works with his son Shuichi, who is his secretary, and they live together in the suburb with their wives Yasuko and Kikuko respectively. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Inazuma / Lightning (1952) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Mitsuko Miura, Kyôko Kagawa, Drama
Mikio Naruse’s second adaptation of a novel by Fumiko Hayashi stars Hideko Takamine, the director’s frequent muse, as bus conductress Kiyoko Komori, the youngest daughter in a family of squabbling half-siblings. Read More »
Desperate Moment (1953) Compton Bennett, Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller, War
In post-world-war II Germany, Dutchman Simon Van Halder is accused of killing a British soldier. Although he confessed to the murder in order to obtain penicillin for his illness, Simon is innocent. Read More »
Three for Jamie Dawn (1956) Thomas Carr, Laraine Day, Ricardo Montalban, Richard Carlson, Crime, Drama
Unscrupulous trial lawyer and his operatives fix a case involving a wealthy client accused of murder. He finds and exploits the weaknesses of three jurors who capitulate at first. Read More »
Sait-on jamais… (1957) Roger Vadim, Françoise Arnoul, Christian Marquand, Robert Hossein, Drama
Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger. Read More »
For Men Only (1952) Paul Henreid, Kathleen Hughes, Russell Johnson, Drama
A college professor begins to suspect that a student’s accidental death was tied to his refusal to take part in a traditional “hazing” and was no accident. Read More »
Orders to Kill (1958) Anthony Asquith, Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, Film-Noir, Drama, War
A grounded American figter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis. Read More »
The Green Man (1956) Robert Day, Basil Dearden, Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Comedy
Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. Read More »
The Bat (1959) Crane Wilbur, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called “The Oaks”, which not long ago had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as “The Bat”. Read More »
Ensayo de un crimen / The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) Luis Buñuel, Ernesto Alonso, Miroslava, Rita Macedo, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it – but not everything goes according to plan… Read More »