Tag Archives: 1950s

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 »

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. Read More »

Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor Read More »

A wealthy heiress returns to a small Arkansas town to furtively reward the townsfolk who helped to save her life when she was a young girl. Read More »

Three loosely connected love stories. The first story: Paula is a talented dancer who cannot truly live unless she dances. Read More »