Single parents Jean Bowen and Brad Stubbs meet at the train station when they send their kids (his 2 girls, her 2 boys) off to camp. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Goddess (1958) John Cromwell, Kim Stanley, Lloyd Bridges, Steven Hill, Drama
Loosely based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, the story of a young woman destined from childhood on to be adored by millions but unhappy in her own life. Read More »
Sudden Danger (1955) Hubert Cornfield, Bill Elliott, Tom Drake, Beverly Garland, Drama, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A woman who heads a sportswear manufacturing company is found dead. Although it is ruled a suicide, the police detective in charge believes she was murdered Read More »
Footsteps in the Night (1957) Jean Yarbrough, Bill Elliott, Don Haggerty, Eleanore Tanin, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir
The fifth and last of the Ben Schwab productions starring Bill Elliott as a L.A. sheriff’s department detective begins with Henry Johnson being sought by the sheriff’s office for the murder Read More »
Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) J. Lee Thompson, Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Drama, Romance
Amy and Jim Preston have been married for twenty years but, in her husband’s eyes, she has become sloppy both about the house and herself. Read More »
Dial Red O (1955) Daniel B. Ullman, Bill Elliott, Helene Stanley, Keith Larsen, Crime, Drama, Mystery
The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff’s department, Dial Red “O” Read More »
Scarlet Angel (1952) Sidney Salkow, Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Denning, Adventure, Drama, Western
In 1865 New Orleans, sea captain Truscott goes to the notorious Scarlet Angel saloon, where he meets rapacious Roxy McClanahan, as rough and tough as he is. Read More »
Le plaisir (1952) Max Ophüls, Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women – pleasure and youth. Read More »
Three Violent People (1956) Rudolph Maté, Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Western
Former dance hall girl Lorna, masquerading as a lady, meets and marries Confederate ex-officer Colt Saunders, returning to his rich Texas ranch. Read More »
La beauté du diable / Beauty and the Devil (1950) René Clair, Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Professor Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as an alchemist in a circa-1700 university, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets of nature Read More »