In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
From Here to Eternity (1953) Fred Zinnemann, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Drama, Romance, War
It’s 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in Hawaii. Read More »
Apache (1954) Robert Aldrich, Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire, Western
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. Read More »
Gun Battle at Monterey (1957) Sidney Franklin Jr., Carl K. Hittleman, Sterling Hayden, Pamela Duncan, Ted de Corsia, Romance, Western
Reno and Turner are partners who robbed the express in Monterey. But when Turner wants to leave the partnership, Reno shoots him and leaves him for dead. Read More »
Désirée (1954) Henry Koster, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte Read More »
The Jayhawkers! (1959) Melvin Frank, Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker, Nicole Maurey, Romance, Western
Shortly before the start of the American Civil War rebel Kansas leader Luke Darcy dreams of a new independent Republic of Kansas. Read More »
Thunder in the Sun (1959) Russell Rouse, Susan Hayward, Jeff Chandler, Jacques Bergerac, Action, Adventure, History, Romance, Western
1850 adventure story of the Basque immigrants on their way to California, their struggle with the Indians, and the development of a complicated love triangle. Read More »
Les Girls (1957) George Cukor, Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Comedy, Musical
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe “Barry Nichols and Les Girls”, Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. Read More »
No Mans Woman (1955) Franklin Adreon, Marie Windsor, John Archer, Patric Knowles, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
Carolyn Ellenson double-crosses five people who cross her path and is murdered by one of them. Read More »
From the Earth to the Moon (1958) Byron Haskin, Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. Read More »