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Tag Archives: 1950s
Peccato che sia una canaglia / Too Bad She’s Bad (1954) Alessandro Blasetti, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Comedy, Romance

Rome Cabbie Paolo (Marcello Mastroianni) almost gets his cab stolen by two punks in the company of knockout Italiana Lina Stroppiani (Sophia Loren). Read More »
Sensualidad (1951) Alberto Gout, Fernando Soler, Ninón Sevilla, Domingo Soler, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Saloon singer Aurora is sentenced to two years in prison for a prostitution conviction. Read More »
O Drakos / The Ogre of Athens (1956) Nikos Koundouros, Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Giannis Argyris, Crime, Drama

The film “O Drakos” is about a mousy, timid, bespectacled guy in Athens who sees a newspaper photo of a fugitive criminal mastermind called “The Fiend”. Read More »
But Not for Me (1959) Walter Lang, Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lilli Palmer, Comedy, Romance

Russ Ward, after 30 years of producing Broadway plays, is ready to quit. His secretary, Ellie Brown, on being given notice, tells him she loves him. Read More »
Vachan (1955) Raj Rishi, Geeta Bali, Balraj, Rajendra Kumar, Drama

Kamla lives a poor lifestyle in a small town in Uttar Pradesh, India, along with her widowed dad, Dinanath Read More »
The Last Blitzkrieg (1959) Arthur Dreifuss, Van Johnson, Kerwin Mathews, Dick York, War, Drama

The son of a high-ranking Nazi official, Kroner is called upon to lead a dangerous mission in the waning days of the war. Read More »
The Girl Next Door (1953) Richard Sale, Dan Dailey, June Haver, Dennis Day, Comedy, Musical

Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird (June Haver) buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke from next door. Read More »
The Duke Wore Jeans (1958) Gerald Thomas, Tommy Steele, June Laverick, Michael Medwin, Comedy

In anticipation of Elvis Presley’s Kissin’ Cousins, British rock-and-roll idol Tommy Steele plays a dual role in The Duke Wore Jeans. Read More »
Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950) Mitchell Leisen, Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix, Francis Lederer, Drama, Thriller

Webb Carey returns to Orta, near Milan, to find out who betrayed his World War II O.S.S. team and caused the death of several villagers. Read More »