
Paola (Lucia Bose) is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana (Ferdinando Sarmi). Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
I Spit on Your Grave (1959) Michel Gast, Christian Marquand, Antonella Lualdi, Fernand Ledoux, Crime, Drama, Romance

In the American south, light-skinned Afro-American Joe Grant leaves Memphis and moves to a small town after his 18-year-old brother Sonny is brutally lynched for attempting to marry a white woman. Read More »
Strictly Dishonorable (1951) Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh, Millard Mitchell, Comedy, Romance, Musical

Strictly Dishonorable is a musicalized version of Preston Sturges’ cynical Broadway comedy of the same title, previously filmed sans songs in 1931. Read More »
The 27th Day (1957) William Asher, Gene Barry, Valerie French, George Voskovec, Sci-Fi

Five individuals from five nations, including the “Superpowers,” USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien spacecraft. Read More »
The Sun Also Rises (1957) Henry King, Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, Drama

Paris in the 1920s. The American journalist Jake and his friends spend the time at cafés. Read More »
The Young Captives (1959) Irvin Kershner, Steven Marlo, Luana Patten, Tom Selden, Crime, Drama

Teen-age sweethearts, Benjie Whitney and Ann Howel, decide to elope to Mexico. Read More »
Treasure Island (1950) Byron Haskin, Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Adventure, Family

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Read More »
Storm Fear (1955) Cornel WildeJean Wallace, Dan Duryea, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

After being wounded by a bullet, bank robber Charlie Blake seeks shelter with his gang at his brother’s mountain retreat. Read More »
Oklahoma! (1955) Fred Zinnemann, Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson

In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys Read More »
Three Cases of Murder (1955) David Eady, George More O’Ferrall, Orson Welles, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars, Crime, Mystery, Drama, Horror, Fantasy

Three stories of murder and the supernatural. In the first, a museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. Read More »