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Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
Hell’s Outpost (1954) Joseph Kane
A Korean war veteran attempts to help a small town mine owner develop his tungsten mine in spite of efforts by the town boss to stop him. Read More »
I Want to be a Shellfish (1959) Shinobu Hashimoto, Furankî Sakai, Michiyo Aratama, Kumi Mizuno
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband Read More »