
A musical remake of Ninotchka: After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Statues Also Die (1953) Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker, Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII

Documentary about the disintegration and desecration of black African art by white Europeans Read More »
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) Michael Anderson, James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the “Black & Tans,” special British forces given to harsh measures. Read More »
The Return of Don Camillo (1953) Julien Duvivier, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Édouard Delmont

After his battles with the communist mayor Peppone, Don Camillo is sent in exile by his bishop in a remote village. Read More »
Scaramouche (1952) George Sidney, Stewart Granger, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker

Andre-Louis Moreau is a nobleman’s bastard in the days of the French revolution. Read More »
Mara Maru (1952) Gordon Douglas, Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr

Greg Mason, salvage diver in the Philippines, finds his partner Andy drunk and raving about treasure. Read More »
The True Story of Jesse James (1957) Nicholas Ray, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange

The last eighteen years in the life of Jesse James, showing his home life in Missouri, his experiences with Quantrill’s raiders, his career of banditry with his brother Frank Read More »
Topeka (1953) Thomas Carr, Bill Elliott, Phyllis Coates, Rick Vallin

After a series of bank robberies, Jim Levering (Bill Elliott) as Wild Bill Elliott) and his gang decide to hide out for awhile in Deer Creek Read More »
The Frogmen (1951) Lloyd Bacon, Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill

World War II drama in which Richard Widmark, as Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence, replaces the popular commanding officer of a group of underwater demolition divers. Read More »
Chain of Events (1958) Gerald Thomas, Dermot Walsh, Susan Shaw, Lisa Gastoni

When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks all sorts of complications. Read More »