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Tag Archives: 1950s
Without Warning! (1952) Arnold Laven

Carl Martin is a morose and deranged Los Angeles gardener, who,in retribution for the infidelity of his unfaithful wife Read More »
Cinderella (1957) Ralph Nelson

Believed lost since its one-night-only television broadcast in March of 1957 Read More »
Eight Iron Men (1952) Edward Dmytryk

Stanley Kramer’s WW-II character study has Lee Marvin as the Sergeant of a small squad laid over during fighting in Italy. Read More »
The Jayhawkers! (1959) Melvin Frank, Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker, Nicole Maurey

Shortly before the start of the American Civil War rebel Kansas leader Luke Darcy dreams of a new independent Republic of Kansas. Read More »
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957) Michael Anderson, Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff

While sailing lawfully up the Yangste river in 1949, the British warship Amethyst Read More »
Interrupted Melody (1955) Curtis Bernhardt, Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore

Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. Read More »
Raintree County (1957) Edward Dmytryk, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint

An abolitionist John Wickliff Shawnessy drifts away from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither Read More »
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952) Henry King, Jean Peters, David Wayne, Hugh Marlowe

Ben Halper sets up his barber’s shop at the turn of the century in Sevillinois and watches the town grow around him. Read More »
The Sheepman (1958) George Marshall, Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Nielsen

A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance Read More »