School teacher Janet Brooks innocently involves herself in a scandal while spending the week-end alone in the mountain cabin of her fiancée, Dr. Walter Phillips. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Cinderella (1957) Ralph Nelson, Julie Andrews, Ilka Chase, Edie Adams, Musical, Family, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Believed lost since its one-night-only television broadcast in March of 1957, the original production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s made-for-TV musical features then-rising Broadway star Julie Andrews Read More »
Double Confession (1950) Ken Annakin, Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, Crime, Drama
When his wife is murdered, the husband tries to divert suspicion from himself to someone else. Unfortunately, his scheme winds up getting him mixed up with some real murderers. Read More »
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) Michael Anderson, John Farrow, David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
When this movie is made in 1956, one can circumnavigate the globe in a little less than two days. Read More »
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A wealthy harridan, Violet Venable, attempts to bribe Dr. Cukrowicz, a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans mental hospital that is desperately in need of funds Read More »
The Atomic Submarine (1959) Spencer Gordon Bennet, Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In the far and distant future of 1968, many ships and planes are crossing the North pole to transport passengers and cargo. Read More »
The Fly (1958) Kurt Neumann, David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After her husband Andre Delambre is crushed to death in a mechanical press, his wife recounts to his brother Francois Delambre and police Inspector Charas the events of the previous few months. Read More »
The Mugger (1958) William Berke, Kent Smith, Nan Martin, James Franciscus, Crime, Drama
An unidentified city is plagued by a mysterious mugger who attacks women at night, steals their purses, and cuts them on their left cheek. Read More »
The House Across the Lake / Heat Wave (1954) Ken Hughes, Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Sidney James, Crime, Drama
Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Read More »
Four Boys and a Gun (1957) William Berke, Frank Sutton, Tarry Green, James Franciscus, Crime, Drama
Four boys are involved in a robbery in which a policeman is killed. Caught, they are told they will most-definitely be convicted. Read More »