
On 30 September 1659, the aristocratic British Robinson Crusoe’s ship sinks and he miraculously survives on a deserted island somewhere in South America. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Girls in the Night (1953) Jack Arnold, Harvey Lembeck, Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A morbid and rugged look at life in the tenements of New York City. Chuck Haynes and his girl friend, Georgia Cordray, plan to rob a fake beggar of a supposed fortune Read More »
The Girls of San Frediano (1955) Valerio Zurlini, Antonio Cifariello, Rossana Podestà, Giovanna Ralli, Comedy, Romance

The story deals with the amorous escapades of handsome garage mechanic Bob (Antonio Cifariello). Read More »
Story of a Love Affair (1950) Michelangelo Antonioni, Lucia Bosé, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi, Crime, Drama, Romance

Paola (Lucia Bose) is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana (Ferdinando Sarmi). Read More »
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 »