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Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
St. Louis Blues (1958) Allen Reisner, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Eartha Kitt, Cab Calloway, Biography, Drama, Music
Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. Read More »
High School Confidential! (1958) Jack Arnold, Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, John Drew Barrymore, Drama, Crime
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. Read More »