Dr. Bruce Merritt is enticed to Bitter Water by ‘Doc’ Medley, a phony poker swindler, who persuades Merritt to pay him $250 for the use of his ‘medical practice.’ Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Tobor the Great (1954) Lee Sholem, Charles Drake, Karin Booth, Billy Chapin, Sci-Fi
As projected here, a thinly-disguised NASA, working with nuclear rockets, is ready for manned flights in the mid-fifties…but Dr. Ralph Harrison doesn’t think so, and resigns in protest. Read More »
Sabita naifu / Rusty Knife (1958) Toshio Masuda, Yûjirô Ishihara, Mie Kitahara, Shôji Yasui, Action, Crime, Film-Noir
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. Read More »
A Farewell to Arms (1957) Charles Vidor, John Huston, Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Drama, Romance, War
Frederick Henry, an American serving as a volunteer ambulance driver with the Italian forces in the First World War Read More »
Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo (1956) Mauro Bolognini, Alberto Sordi, Peppino De Filippo, Aldo Fabrizi, Comedy
This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the ’50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. Read More »
Hidden Fear (1957) André De Toth, John Payne, Alexander Knox, Conrad Nagel, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
American policeman Mike Brent (John Payne) arrives in Denmark to help clear his sister of a murder rap in which her partner/boyfriend has been killed Read More »
