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Tag Archives: 1950s
Les dragueurs / The Chasers (1959) Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jacques Charrier, Charles Aznavour, Dany Robin
Two young men, one shy and one self-confident, spend a fast-paced night in Paris Read More »
The Deep Blue Sea (1955) Anatole Litvak, Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman
A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover. Read More »
Shield for Murder (1954) Howard W. Koch, Edmond O’Brien, John Agar, Marla English
A vicious cop kills a bookie’s runner and steals $25,000 from the corpse. Read More »
Gate of Hell / Jigokumon (1953) Teinosuke Kinugasa, Machiko Kyô, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isao Yamagata
In 1159, during an attempted coup, one of the court’s ladies in waiting disguises herself Read More »
Compulsion (1959) Richard Fleischer, Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi
In 1924 Chicago, two rich college students, Judd Steiner and Arthur Strauss, decide they can commit Read More »
Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957) Nunnally Johnson, Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Dan Dailey
Ginger Rogers, Dan Dailey’s bored housewife, seeks psychiatric help from Dr. David Niven who also solves his own emotional problems. Read More »
Four Boys and a Gun (1957) William Berke, Frank Sutton, Tarry Green, James Franciscus
Four boys are involved in a robbery in which a policeman is killed. Caught, they are told they will most-definitely be convicted. Read More »
Montana Territory (1952) Ray Nazarro, Lon McCallister, Wanda Hendrix, Preston Foster
John Malvin (Lon McCallister), prospecting the Montana territory during the gold rush Read More »
El Hakim (1957) Rolf Thiele, O.W. Fischer, Michael Ande, Nadja Tiller
A young Egyptian doctor leaves his uneducated, dance girl lady friend behind while he focuses Read More »