
The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany’s industrial heart. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Backfire (1950) Vincent Sherman, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Edmond O’Brien, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Bob Corey, recovering from a series of operations in a Veterans’ hospital, learns that his friend, Steve Connelly, with whom he intended to buy a ranch Read More »
Fortune Is a Woman (1957) Sidney Gilliat, Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price, Crime, Drama

Oliver Bramwell, an insurance inspector, arrives at Lewis Manor where he is to investigate a fire that broke out there on Christmas Eve. Read More »
Track the Man Down (1955) R.G. Springsteen, Kent Taylor, Petula Clark, George Rose, Crime, Drama

The melodramatic crime caper centers on a robbery at a greyhound racetrack that results in the unintentional murder of a guard. Read More »
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Ingmar Bergman, Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Comedy, Romance

It’s late nineteenth century Sweden. Middle aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his nineteen year old current wife Anne Egerman’s two-year marriage has not yet been consummated. Read More »
Man in the Dark (1953) Lew Landers, Edmond O’Brien, Audrey Totter, Ted de Corsia, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A thug is convicted and undergoes experimental brain surgery to remove the criminal element in his brain. Read More »
I’m All Right Jack (1959) John Boulting, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Read More »
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950) Robert J. Flaherty, Fredric March, Documentary

The life and works of this excellent artist Michelangelo Buonarroti are displayed against the historical backdrop of the time. Read More »
The Steel Jungle (1956) Walter Doniger, Perry Lopez, Beverly Garland, Walter Abel, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The Steel Jungle is your prison in which most of the movie occurs. Perry Lopez heads the cast as two-bit bookie Ed Novak Read More »
On Trial (1954) Julien Duvivier, Daniel Gélin, Madeleine Robinson, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Crime, Drama

Etzel, the son of prosecutor Wolf Andergast, finds that eight years ago his dad condemned Léonard Maurizius into a lifetime sentence for the murder of his wife Elisabeth. Read More »