An American patrol was sent during World War II to the south of China which was occupied by Japanese troops with the order to rescue a prisoner of the Chinese guerilla. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
La schiava del peccato / The Slave of Sin (1954) Raffaello Matarazzo, Silvana Pampanini, Marcello Mastroianni, Camillo Pilotto
The only survivors of a serious train accident are a little girl and a prostitute. Read More »
Tormento (1950) Raffaello Matarazzo, Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Annibale Betrone
Living with her father and stepmother in Naples, Anna is very unhappy as her stepmother hinders her attempts to live her own life. Read More »
Flight Nurse (1953) Allan Dwan, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker, Arthur Franz
A routine film on the surface, Flight Nurse is quite original in showing war from the point of view of a nurse who is as comely as as she is generous. Read More »
Side Street (1950) Anthony Mann, Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig
Joe Norson, a poor letter carrier with a sweet, pregnant wife, yields to momentary temptation Read More »
Lone Star (1952) Vincent Sherman, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford
Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke Read More »
Yotsuya Kaidan (1956) Masaki Môri, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Akemi Tsukushi, Chieko Sôma
Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. Read More »
Hellgate (1952) Charles Marquis Warren, Sterling Hayden, Joan Leslie, Ward Bond
A man is accused of spying for the confederacy, and sentenced to the notorious Hellgate Prison. Read More »
Run for the Hills (1953) Lew Landers, Sonny Tufts, Barbara Payton, John Harmon
Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man (Sonny Tufts) Read More »
The Big Beat (1958) Will Cowan, William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Gogi Grant
Young man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock ‘n’ roll acts. Read More »