Saturday, April 9: A known bookie named Miller Starkie has been “cut in half” by a sawed-off, double-barrel shotgun. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Jail Bait (1954) Edward D. Wood Jr., Lyle Talbot, Dolores Fuller, Clancy Malone, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Vic Brady draws young Don Gregor into a life of crime. He then blackmails Gregor’s plastic surgeon father into fixing up his face so he can evade the cops. Read More »
The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951) George Cukor, Jeanne Crain, Thelma Ritter, Scott Brady, Comedy, Romance
Marriage broker Mae Swasey, who somewhat cynically arranges her loser clients’ affairs, meets model Kitty Bennett and can’t resist meddling in her life Read More »
Entotsu no mieru basho / Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953) Heinosuke Gosho, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Uehara, Hideko Takamine, Drama
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo. Read More »
No Man of Her Own (1950) Mitchell Leisen, Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Drama, Film-Noir
In a mansion in Caulfield, Illinois, Patrice Harkness and Bill Harkness are waiting for the police. Read More »
China Gate (1957) Samuel Fuller, Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Action, War, Drama
Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border, to blow up an arms depot. Read More »
The Scarface Mob (1959) Phil Karlson, Robert Stack, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Nichols, Drama, Crime
Special Agent Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) forms The Untouchables, an elite squad of incorruptible lawmen, in order to bring down underworld kingpin Al Capone. Read More »
Conquest of Cochise (1953) William Castle, John Hodiak, Robert Stack, Joy Page
Its 1853 and the Gadsden Purchase has just brought part of Mexico into the United States. Read More »
The Las Vegas Story (1952) Robert Stevenson, Jane Russell, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Investment broker Lloyd Rollins, insisting to his wife Linda that they stop at Las Vegas on their trip from Boston, begins to gamble heavily. Read More »
Don Camillo / The Little World of Don Camillo (1952) Julien Duvivier, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi, Comedy
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. Read More »