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Tag Archives: 1950s
Guns Don’t Argue (1957) Richard C. Kahn, Bill Karn, Myron Healey, Jean Harvey, Paul Dubov, Crime, Drama

A composite of three re-edited episodes from the 1952 TV series, Gangbusters, released to theatres in 1957 as a feature film. Gang Busters (1954) was a similar effort. Read More »
The Golden Hawk (1952) Sidney Salkow, Rhonda Fleming, Sterling Hayden, Helena Carter, Action, Adventure, History, Romance, War

Kit Gerardo, also known as The Hawk, is one of Frances’s most daring privateers, rescues Rouge from a Spanish ship. Read More »
The Turning Point (1952) William Dieterle, William Holden, Edmond O’Brien, Alexis Smith, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city, and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. Read More »
Les femmes s’en balancent / Dames Get Along (1954) Bernard Borderie, Eddie Constantine, Nadia Gray, Dominique Wilms, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Lemmy Caution is back! He hooks up with a fellow agent at a night club to exchange info about a beautiful babe the FBI has under observation. Read More »
Ça va barder / Give ’em Hell (1955) John Berry, Eddie Constantine, May Britt, Jean Danet, Action, Adventure, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

During the 1950s, in Portuguese Mozambique, small-time American hustler, ex-soldier, ex-boxer and adventurer Johnny Jordan is looking for a new gig. Read More »
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) Douglas Sirk, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Gregg Palmer, Action, Drama, Romance, War, Western

Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war…and for Taza’s betrothed, Oona. Read More »
Take Me to Town (1953) Douglas Sirk, Ann Sheridan, Sterling Hayden, Phillip Reed, Comedy, Western

Saloon entertainer Vermilion O’Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline. Read More »
Up in Smoke (1957) William Beaudine, Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, David Gorcey, Comedy

In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil. Read More »
Beloved Infidel (1959) Henry King, Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr, Eddie Albert, Drama, Romance

In 1936, the witty columnist Sheilah Graham leaves her noble British fiancé and travels in the Queen Mary from Southampton, England, to New York. Read More »