
Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Secret Place (1957) Clive Donner, Belinda Lee, Ronald Lewis, Michael Brooke

A beautiful redhead becomes involved with a smalltime gang of hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery. Read More »
Bengazi (1955) John Brahm, Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen, Richard Carlson

An American with a shady past, John Gilmore and an Irishman without a conscience, Robert Emmett Donovan Read More »
Bring Your Smile Along (1955) Blake Edwards, Frankie Laine, Keefe Brasselle, Constance Towers

Nancy Willows (Constance Towers), pretty blonde high school teacher, writes song lyrics which spark the careers of struggling young pianist-composer Martin Adams (Keefe Brasselle’) Read More »
Silk Stockings (1957) Rouben Mamoulian

A musical remake of Ninotchka: After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris Read More »
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 »