
Ronnie, earning very little from his own exploits, gathers together a band of villains to carry out a robbery on ‘The Flying Scotsman’ passenger train. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Golden Ivory (1954) George P. Breakston, Robert Urquhart, John Bentley, Susan Stephen, Adventure

British settlers travel to Masai country in Kenya. Read More »
Pier 5, Havana (1959) Edward L. Cahn, Cameron Mitchell

A Yank comes to Havana in search of an old friend who disappeared during the Cuban Revolution Read More »
Operation Petticoat (1959) Blake Edwards, Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O’Brien, Comedy, Romance, War

A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and captain it. Read More »
Bride of the Gorilla (1951) Curt Siodmak, Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr., Raymond Burr, Horror

Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife (Barbara Payton). Read More »
Chicago Syndicate (1955) Fred F. Sears, Dennis O’Keefe, Abbe Lane, Paul Stewart, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

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 (1952) William Wyler, Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Drama, Romance

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 »
The Hour of 13 (1952) Harold French, Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver, Crime, Mystery, Romance

Nicholas Revel (Peter Lawford) is a young man any dowager in London welcomes to her parties. Read More »
Pather Panchali (1955) Satyajit Ray, Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee, Drama

The story of a young boy, Apu, and life in his small Indian village. Read More »
Apur Sansar / The World of Apu (1959) Satyajit Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, Drama

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 »