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Tag Archives: 1950s
The Intimate Stranger (1956) Joseph Losey
A married movie studio executive’s life starts to unravel when he is stalked Read More »
Love from Paris / Monpti (1957) Helmut Käutner, Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Mara Lane
A poor 22 y.o. Hungarian man who’s recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 y.o. Parisian girl. Read More »
Bright Road (1953) Gerald Mayer, Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Harry Belafonte
A young teacher helps a troubled student who’s fascinated by a caterpillar’s metamorphosis. Read More »
Porgy and Bess (1959) Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr.
In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina Read More »
Cattle Queen of Montana (1954) Allan Dwan, Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans
The Jones family, about to prove claim to prime Montana land, is raided by renegade Indians Read More »
Tiger Bay (1959) J. Lee Thompson, Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills
Gille Jenkins, a 12 year old tomboy and compulsive liar living in a sordid tenement Read More »
Trent’s Last Case (1952) Herbert Wilcox, Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles
After a wealthy businessman is found dead, reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Read More »
Clash by Night (1952) Fritz Lang, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas
The bitter and cynical Mae Doyle returns to the fishing village where she was raised after deceptive loves and life in New York. Read More »
True as a Turtle (1957) Wendy Toye, John Gregson, Cecil Parker, June Thorburn
Newlywed Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Read More »