Tag Archives: 1950s

An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. Read More »

Carrie boards the train to Chicago with big ambitions. She gets a job stitching shoes and her sister’s husband takes almost all of her pay for room and board. Read More »

Nicholas Revel (Peter Lawford) is a young man any dowager in London welcomes to her parties. Read More »

The story of a young boy, Apu, and life in his small Indian village. Read More »

Apu is a jobless former student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. Read More »

Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. Read More »

Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. Read More »

A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. Read More »

In 1909, Emiliano Zapata, a well-born but penniless Mexican Mestizo from the southern state of Morelos Read More »

A rebuilt WWII carrier sails back to the Pacific theater to rejoin the war in early 1945, a carrier the Japanese think they sank. Read More »