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Tag Archives: 1950s
Yotsuya Kaidan (1956) Masaki Môri, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Akemi Tsukushi, Chieko Sôma

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. Read More »
Hellgate (1952) Charles Marquis Warren, Sterling Hayden, Joan Leslie, Ward Bond

A man is accused of spying for the confederacy, and sentenced to the notorious Hellgate Prison. Read More »
Run for the Hills (1953) Lew Landers, Sonny Tufts, Barbara Payton, John Harmon

Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man (Sonny Tufts) Read More »
The Big Beat (1958) Will Cowan, William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Gogi Grant

Young man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock ‘n’ roll acts. Read More »
L’étrange Madame X / Strange Madame X (1951) Jean Grémillon, Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal, Arlette Thomas

Can a person really lead a double life? It looks as though Irène can. Read More »
Her Bridal Night / La mariée est trop belle (1956) Pierre Gaspard-Huit, Brigitte Bardot, Micheline Presle, Louis Jourdan

A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine and becomes a top model. Read More »
Les grandes familles / The Possessors (1958) Denys de La Patellière, Jean Gabin, Annie Ducaux, Jean Desailly

Noël Schoudler is the head of a wealthy and powerful family in France. Read More »
Les dragueurs / The Chasers (1959) Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jacques Charrier, Charles Aznavour, Dany Robin

Two young men, one shy and one self-confident, spend a fast-paced night in Paris Read More »
The Deep Blue Sea (1955) Anatole Litvak, Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman

A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover. Read More »