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Tag Archives: 1950s
Il maestro di Don Giovanni / Crossed Swords (1954) Milton Krims, Vittorio Vassarotti, Errol Flynn, Gina Lollobrigida, Nadia Gray

Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia’s duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Read More »
Home Town Story (1951) Arthur Pierson, Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, Marjorie Reynolds

Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. Read More »
Grip of the Strangler (1958) Robert Day, Boris Karloff, Anthony Dawson, Derek Birch

A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier Read More »
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 »