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Tag Archives: 1950s
Run for the Hills (1953) Lew Landers, Sonny Tufts, Barbara Payton, John Harmon

Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man (Sonny Tufts) Read More »
The Big Beat (1958) Will Cowan, William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Gogi Grant

Young man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock ‘n’ roll acts. Read More »
L’étrange Madame X / Strange Madame X (1951) Jean Grémillon, Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal, Arlette Thomas

Can a person really lead a double life? It looks as though Irène can. Read More »
Her Bridal Night / La mariée est trop belle (1956) Pierre Gaspard-Huit, Brigitte Bardot, Micheline Presle, Louis Jourdan

A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine and becomes a top model. Read More »
Les grandes familles / The Possessors (1958) Denys de La Patellière, Jean Gabin, Annie Ducaux, Jean Desailly

Noël Schoudler is the head of a wealthy and powerful family in France. Read More »
Les dragueurs / The Chasers (1959) Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jacques Charrier, Charles Aznavour, Dany Robin

Two young men, one shy and one self-confident, spend a fast-paced night in Paris Read More »
The Deep Blue Sea (1955) Anatole Litvak, Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman

A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover. Read More »
Shield for Murder (1954) Howard W. Koch, Edmond O’Brien, John Agar, Marla English

A vicious cop kills a bookie’s runner and steals $25,000 from the corpse. Read More »
Gate of Hell / Jigokumon (1953) Teinosuke Kinugasa, Machiko Kyô, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isao Yamagata

In 1159, during an attempted coup, one of the court’s ladies in waiting disguises herself Read More »