Just after the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln asks two former enemies–a Union officer and a former Confederate–to drive a herd of cattle from Texas to Kansas, to help feed civilians who are short of food.
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Tag Archives: 1950s
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955) Jean Negulesco, Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Rich American socialite Lady Edwina Esketh, who obtained her title by marrying English Lord Albert Esketh, travels to Ranchipur where Albert hopes to buy a prize stallion from the Maharani.
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Ugetsu monogatari / Ugetsu (1953) Kenji Mizoguchi, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Drama, Fantasy, War
In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake Biwa in the Province of Omi, the family man farmer and craftsman Genjurô travels to Nagahama to sell his wares and makes a small fortune.
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Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955) Fred F. Sears, Tommy Cook, Molly McCart, Sue England, Crime, Drama
A propaganda film intended to highlight the growing problem of juvenile crime. Jane Koberly, present during a robbery, is falsely convicted of being an accessory.
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Last Train from Bombay (1952) Fred F. Sears, Jon Hall, Christine Larsen, Lisa Ferraday, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Martin Viking, an American diplomat in India, is falsely accused on the killing of an Indian dignitary and sets out to prove his innocence while trying to find the location of explosions planed on a Bombay train by a group of terrorists.
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Jacqueline (1956) Roy Ward Baker, John Gregson, Kathleen Ryan, Jacqueline Ryan, Drama
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker’s worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights.
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The Man Between (1953) Carol Reed, James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
In the Post-World War II, the British Susanne Mallison travels to Berlin to visit her older brother Martin Mallison, a military that has married the German Bettina Mallison. The naive Susanne snoops on Bettina and suspects that she is hiding a secret from her brother.
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Meet Me After the Show (1951) Richard Sale, Betty Grable, Macdonald Carey, Rory Calhoun, Comedy, Musical
Delilah Lee is the sar of husband Jeff Ames’ Broadway show when she starts to suspect he has been exchanging more than contracts with the show’s vampish backer. Alimony and amnesia become the order of the day.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) Charles Lamont, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is the last of the team’s vehicles for Universal-International. Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou hire themselves out as travelling companions to archeologist Kurt Katch. Before long, Katch is murdered by a group of cultists, and a medallion, embossed with a map which leads to a sacred burial site, is accidentally swallowed by Costello. The boys become the unwilling pawns of the cultists, led by Richard Deacon, and a greedy adventuress, played by Marie Windsor. The last scene finds Costello being menaced by three mummies, two of them bogus.
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No Questions Asked (1951) Harold F. Kress, Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy
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