Tag Archives: 1950s

Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. Read More »

When John Stewart gives refuge to Wick Campbell’s girl friend, Campbell turns against him. He rustles Stewart’s cattle, murders his brother, and brings in hired guns. Read More »

A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. As a prince of his church, and a popular hero of this people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and afterward his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conquerer. Read More »

Loosely based on the William Faulkner novel, this movie follows the lives and passions of the Compsons: a once-proud Southern family now just barely scraping by both financially and emotionally. Read More »

Lieut. Humphrey Fairweather, R.N., in his latest disastrous attempt to prove to the Navy that his rocket invention is better than theirs only succeeds in convincing them that no guided-missile station will be safe until he is out of harm’s way. Read More »

Nick Magellan works for the corrupt businessman Charlie Lupo, who presides over an influential crime syndicate in Manhattan, New York. Read More »

Mr. Joly, doctor Cordelier’s lawyer, is amazed to discover that his client and friend leaves his possessions to a stranger, Opale, a sadistic criminal. Read More »

Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the jungle. Read More »

Newsman Mark Elliott is an American war correspondent in Hong Kong, separated from his wife. Read More »

The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Read More »