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Tag Archives: 1950s
Battle Stations (1956) Lewis Seiler, John Lund, William Bendix, Keefe Brasselle, Drama, War

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 »
Bachelor of Hearts (1958) Wolf Rilla, Hardy Krüger, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis, Comedy

German scholar Wolf Hauser arrives for a year at Cambridge. Apart from his studies he tries to muck in with the very English non-academic goings-on while romancing pretty Girton-girl Ann. Read More »
The Nuns Story (1959) Fred Zinnemann, Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Drama

In 1930, in Belgium, Gabrielle van der Mal is the stubborn daughter of the prominent surgeon Dr. Hubert van der Mal that decides to leave her the upper-class family to enter to a convent Read More »
Il mondo dei miracoli (1959) Luigi Capuano, Virna Lisi, Jacques Sernas, Marisa Merlini, Comedy

Marco, giovane attore di una compagnia teatrale itinerante per le province romane, nonostante sia innamorato della figlia del capocomico Read More »
Law of the Badlands (1951) Lesley Selander, Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Robert Livingston, Western

The Texas Rangers send Dave and Chito into the badlands to see if they can locate a counterfeiting operation. Read More »
The Whole Truth (1958) John Guillermin, Dan Cohen, Stewart Granger, Donna Reed, George Sanders, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

Movie producer Max Poulton is having an on again, off again affair with Gina Bertini, the temperamental leading lady in his latest movie which is filming in the French Riviera. Read More »
Peking Express (1951) William Dieterle, Joseph Cotten, Corinne Calvet, Edmund Gwenn, Action, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller

A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws. Read More »
The Gift of Love (1958) Jean Negulesco, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Evelyn Rudie, Drama, Romance

Physicist Bill Beck meets and marries doctor’s receptionist Julie. Five happy years later, she develops a heart condition. Read More »
Narayama bushikô / Ballad of Narayama (1958) Keisuke Kinoshita, Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Drama

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy Read More »