
Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Step Down to Terror (1958) Harry Keller, Colleen Miller, Charles Drake, Rod Taylor, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town. Read More »
The Naked Truth (1957) Mario Zampi, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Comedy

Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described Read More »
Le crâneur / The Hotshot (1955) Dimitri Kirsanoff, Marina Vlady, Raymond Pellegrin, Dora Doll, Crime, Drama
When Betty Bell, a dancer at a swanky nightclub Le Toboggan, is found dead in a telephone booth suspicion falls immediately on her lover, Philippe, a former stuntman. Read More »
Creature with the Atom Brain (1955) Edward L. Cahn, Richard Denning, Angela Stevens, S. John Launer, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Several years earlier gangster Frank Buchanan was deported to his native Italy through the efforts of law enforcement authorities and rival gangsters who inform on him. Read More »
Miracolo a Milano / Miracle in Milan (1951) Vittorio De Sica, Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Read More »
Insurance Investigator (1951) George Blair, Richard Denning, Audrey Long, John Eldredge, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

John Hammond’s partner, George Sullivan, dies in an apparently accidental death, with Hammond the beneficiary of his double-indemnity insurance policy. Read More »
Destination Big House (1950) George Blair, Dorothy Patrick, Robert Rockwell, Jimmy Lydon, Crime, Drama

School teacher Janet Brooks innocently involves herself in a scandal while spending the week-end alone in the mountain cabin of her fiancée, Dr. Walter Phillips. Read More »
Double Confession (1950) Ken Annakin, Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, Crime, Drama

When his wife is murdered, the husband tries to divert suspicion from himself to someone else. Unfortunately, his scheme winds up getting him mixed up with some real murderers. Read More »
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) Michael Anderson, John Farrow, David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance

When this movie is made in 1956, one can circumnavigate the globe in a little less than two days. Read More »
