
During the 1892 blizzard, pioneer ranching magnate Phil Evarts dies. His Hatchet Ranch is inherited by brother John and daughter Celia. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Before I Wake / Shadow of Fear (1955) Albert S. Rogell, Mona Freeman, Jean Kent, Maxwell Reed

A woman travels to England to attend her parents’ funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn’t buy it. Read More »
You Never Can Tell (1951) Lou Breslow, Dick Powell, Peggy Dow, Joyce Holden, Comedy, Fantasy

An ex-police/army dog (German Shepherd), named Rex inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. Read More »
Fury at Gunsight Pass (1956) Fred F. Sears, David Brian, Neville Brand, Richard Long, Western

Part of an outlaw gang rides into town to rob the bank and their accomplice is the local undertaker. Read More »
Istoria mias kalpikis liras / The Counterfeit Coin (1955) Yorgos Tzavellas, Vasilis Logothetidis, Ilia Livykou, Mimis Fotopoulos, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. Read More »
Omar Khayyam (1957) William Dieterle, Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Adventure, Biography, Romance

Omar Khayyam was among the greatest of Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Read More »
Kono hiroi sora no dokoka ni / Somewhere Beneath The Wide Sky (1954) Masaki Kobayashi, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Hideko Takamine, Drama

A family in the city of Tokyo running a liquor store overcome their impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems. Read More »
Ten North Frederick (1958) Philip Dunne, Gary Cooper, Diane Varsi, Suzy Parker, Drama, Romance

At her father’s funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife and eased only by alcohol. Read More »
Dragnet (1954) Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Richard Boone, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Saturday, April 9: A known bookie named Miller Starkie has been “cut in half” by a sawed-off, double-barrel shotgun. Read More »
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 »