In 1927, Don Lockwood has worked his way up from being a song-and-dance man with partner Cosmo Brown to become a top movie star. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Fort Osage (1952) Lesley Selander, Rod Cameron, Jane Nigh, Morris Ankrum, Western
A greedy businessman is charging outrageous prices to homesteaders who wish to join a wagon train he’s organizing to travel from Missouri to California. Read More »
Man on a Tightrope (1953) Elia Kazan, Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
In 1950s Czechoslovakia circus manager Karel Cernik is planning an escape from Communism to freedom. Read More »
The Red Beret (1953) Terence Young, Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Susan Stephen, Drama, War
Alan Ladd is the focus of this story based on the wartime raid on the German radar station at Bruneval. Read More »
The Naked Venus (1959) Edgar G. Ulmer, Patricia Conelle, Don Roberts, Arianne Ulmer, Drama
A young American painter and his French wife move with their small daughter to the US when the husband’s father dies. Read More »
Feudin’ Fools (1952) William Beaudine, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Dorothy Ford, Comedy
Whe ‘Sach’ Jones inherits a rundown farm in the South, he becomes the target of a group of feuding hillbillies who want to find out if he is a member of the Jones family they have killed or run away. Read More »
Meoto zenzai / Marital Relations (1955) Shirô Toyoda, Hisaya Morishige, Chikage Awashima, Yôko Tsukasa, Drama
Ryukichi, the young master of a cosmetic wholesale dealer, leaves his wife and child to live with Choko, a popular geisha, with whom he has fallen in love. Read More »
The Reformer and the Redhead (1950) Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, June Allyson, Dick Powell, David Wayne, Comedy, Romance
Hot-tempered Kathleen Maguire enlists the services of a young attorney to help her zookeeper father get his job back after he is fired for political reasons. Read More »
The Yellow Cab Man (1950) Jack Donohue, Red Skelton, Gloria DeHaven, Walter Slezak, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. Read More »
You for Me (1952) Don Weis, Peter Lawford, Jane Greer, Gig Young, Comedy, Romance
Katie McDermad, who comes from a working class household, is a dedicated surgical nurse, who loves her profession but not the low pay. Read More »