During the ceremony marrying Ellen and David, a stranger stands up when that phrase “if anyone knows why these two may not be joined…” is spoken. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953) Kurt Neumann, Lex Barker, Joyce Mackenzie, Raymond Burr, Action, Adventure
Ivory poachers, headed by Lyra the She-Devil, Vargo and Fidel, capture a native tribe to carry their loot. Tarzan intervenes and is captured. Read More »
The Caddy (1953) Norman Taurog, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Donna Reed, Comedy, Musical, Sport
The origin of Anthony and Miller, a wildly successful comedy team, can be traced back several years to Harvey Miller’s stage fright on the golf links. Read More »
Fathers Little Dividend (1951) Vincente Minnelli, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Comedy, Romance
In this sequel to Father of the Bride (1950), newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby Read More »
A Blueprint For Murder (1953) Andrew L. Stone, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Two orphans, Polly and Doug, live with their stepmother Lynne; Polly collapses with the same mystery symptoms that killed her father. Read More »
Alaska Passage (1959) Edward Bernds, Bill Williams, Leslie Bradley, Naura Hayden, Adventure, Drama
Al Graham and Gerard Mason are partners in an Alaskan trucking company. They quarrel over expenses and losses. Read More »
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Billy Wilder, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
It’s Britain, 1953. Upon his return to work following a heart attack, irrepressible barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts, known as a barrister for the hopeless Read More »
King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) Henry King, Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie, Adventure, Drama, Romance, History
Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat Read More »
The Glass Web (1953) Jack Arnold, Edward G. Robinson, John Forsythe, Kathleen Hughes, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
The ice-cold diva Paula ruthlessly exploits the guys she dates. While blackmailing the married Don with a recent one-night-stand, she has a secret affair with Henry Read More »
Target Hong Kong (1953) Fred F. Sears, Richard Denning, Nancy Gates, Richard Loo, Action, Drama
American agents and Hong Kong nationalists recruit Lassiter to help remove the Communist influence that has come to the region, led by the evil Suma (Ben Astar). Read More »