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Tag Archives: 1950s
I, the Jury (1953) Harry Essex, Biff Elliot, Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

It’s nearly Christmas, but Mike Hammer is on the vengeance trail when Jack, his wartime buddy, is murdered. Read More »
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) Val Guest, Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Horror, Sci-Fi

In the countryside of London, a rocket crashes on a farm and Professor Bernard Quatermass and Scotland Yard Inspector Lomax arrive in the spot. Read More »
Hell Bound (1957) William J. Hole Jr., John Russell, June Blair, Stuart Whitman, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A criminal gang plots the robbery of a ship carrying $2 million worth of surplus narcotics left over from World War II. Read More »
Between Midnight and Dawn (1950) Gordon Douglas, Mark Stevens, Edmond O’Brien, Gale Storm, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Read More »
Kono ten no niji / The Eternal Rainbow (1958) Keisuke Kinoshita, Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, Takahiro Tamura, Drama

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker. Read More »
Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957) Arnold Laven

Three men gun down Solly Pitts, ‘rebel’ against the racket-ridden Longshoremen’s Union. Read More »
The Delinquents (1957) Robert Altman

Scotty White (age 19) must stop ‘going steady’ with Janice Wilson (age 16) when Janice’s parents intervene. Read More »
Santa Fe Passage (1955) William Witney, John Payne, Faith Domergue, Rod Cameron, Western

Scout and wagon-train guide Kirby Randolph hates all Indians, particularly Kiowa Chief Satank, whose massacre of an entire wagon-train of settlers led by Kirby, has led to his ostracism and neither he nor his pal Sam Beekman can get jobs. Read More »
Gunslinger (1956) Roger Corman, John Ireland, Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes, Western

Oracle, Texas Marshal Scott Hood is murdered and his wife, Rose, takes his badge and sets out on a personal vendetta to find the killers. Read More »