Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Lower Depths (1957) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Drama
In medieval Japan, aging Rokubei, his younger wife of four years Osugi and her uncle run a tenement complex at the bottom of a cliff Read More »
What a Woman! (1956) Alessandro Blasetti, Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer, Marcello Mastroianni, Comedy, Drama
It is a breezy, inconsequential, but likeable comedy about a photographer, Corrado, played by Mastroianni, who snaps a picture of a Rome beauty, Antonietta, played by Loren. Read More »
Tsuki wa noborinu / The Moon Has Risen (1955) Kinuyo Tanaka, Chishû Ryû, Hisako Yamane, Yôko Sugi, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. Read More »
Hong Kong (1952) Lewis R. Foster, Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Nigel Bruce, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, War
Roguish, Indiana Jones-like, fedora and leather jacket-wearing American adventurer and black marketeer Jeff Williams is hired to steal a priceless Read More »
The Captive City (1952) Robert Wise, John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy, Crime, Film-Noir, Drama
A private investigator informs small-town newspaper editor Jim Austin (John Forsythe) of corrupt local activity. Read More »
Accused of Murder (1956) Joseph Kane, David Brian, Vera Ralston, Sidney Blackmer, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
When gangland lawyer Frank Hobart is murdered there are two suspects, Ilona Vanve , beautiful nightclub singer, and a hood named Stan Read More »
The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) Francis D. Lyon, Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York, Action, Adventure, Family, War, Western
This is based on a true story. During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they could destroy the railway system. Read More »
The Brain Eaters (1958) Bruno VeSota, Ed Nelson, Alan Jay Factor, Cornelius Keefe, Sci-Fi, Horror
Strange things are happening in Riverdale, Illinois. A huge, seemingly alien structure has been found jutting out of the earth. Read More »
Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952) Ford Beebe, Johnny Sheffield, Karen Sharpe, Walter Sande, Action, Adventure, Thriller
Bomba decides he wants to know more about his parents and sets out to find out what happened to them. Read More »