A United States Navy ship in the first half of the 19th century, under the command of Captain David Porter, is expecting to put ashore after a year on the seas Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Jet Storm (1959) Cy Endfield, Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley, Thriller
Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. Read More »
Stalag 17 (1953) Billy Wilder, William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Drama, War
One night in 1944 in a German POW camp housing American airmen, two prisoners try to escape the compound and are quickly discovered and shot dead. Read More »
Baby Face Nelson (1957) Don Siegel, Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke, Biography, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After being released from prison, Nelson goes to work for mob boss Rocca (Ted De Corsia), who eventually recognizes that a madman is in his service and turns him in to the cops. Read More »
The Family Secret (1951) Henry Levin, John Derek, Lee J. Cobb, Jody Lawrance, Crime, Drama
A lawyer faces a difficult decision when his son accidentally kills his best friend with no witnesses present, and a rift develops in his mother and father offer contradictory solutions to their sons dilemma. Read More »
Les aventures d’Arsène Lupin / The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957) Jacques Becker, Robert Lamoureux, Liselotte Pulver, O.E. Hasse, Crime, Mystery
Arsène Lupin, the multifaceted gentleman thief, steals two masterpieces from the President of the Council. Read More »
It Came from Outer Space (1953) Jack Arnold, Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Horror, Sci-Fi
John Putnam is a writer and an amateur stargazer with a new home out in the beautiful Arizona desert, which he enjoys with Ellen Fields, his girlfriend and a local schoolteacher. Read More »
Yaqui Drums (1956) Jean Yarbrough, Rod Cameron, Mary Castle, J. Carrol Naish, Western
Mexican bandit Yaqui Jack and his men hold up a stage coach, kill the driver and guard and are robbing the passengers, ranch owner Matt Quigg, his son Lute and Linda, when they in turn are ambushed by Lefty and his gang. Read More »
Sapphire (1959) Basil Dearden, Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1950s London racial hostility to Commonweath immigrants is openly paraded. A pregnant girl, initially assumed to be white, is murdered. Read More »
Genji monogatari / The Tale of Genji (1951) Kôzaburô Yoshimura, Kazuo Hasegawa, Michiyo Kogure, Machiko Kyô, Drama
Based on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks Read More »