A charming, smooth-talking gambler calling himself Chris Hale arrives in Ashton, home of the Corelli shoe factory. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
From Hell to Texas (1958) Henry Hathaway, Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chill Wills
The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Read More »
Kisses (1957) Yasuzô Masumura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Aiko Mimasu
Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. Read More »
Les intrigantes / The Plotters (1954) Henri Decoin, Raymond Rouleau, Jeanne Moreau, Raymond Pellegrin
A stage director (Raymond Rouleau) becomes the prime suspect in the death of his assistant Read More »
The Gambler (1958) Claude Autant-Lara, Gérard Philipe, Liselotte Pulver, Françoise Rosay
In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden Read More »
Because of You (1952) Joseph Pevney, Loretta Young, Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol
Blonde ‘doll’ Christine Carroll finds too late that her fiancée Mike is a gangster and she’s his unwitting accessory. Read More »
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Set in the last few years of the shogun’s rule, this period/ensemble movie depicts the lives of the young and the restless at a whorehouse. Read More »
Woman Basketball Player No. 5 (1957) Jin Xie, Qiwei Cao, Qiong Liu, Yi Qin
Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women’s basketball team. Read More »
Summer Love (1958) Charles F. Haas, John Saxon, Molly Bee, Rod McKuen
A coed summer resort camp rocks with music and romance when a group of entertainers arrives to kick off the season. Read More »
Onna no sono / The Garden of Women (1954) Keisuke Kinoshita, Mieko Takamine, Hideko Takamine, Keiko Kishi
A student at a woman’s university takes a controversial action against the school’s old-fashioned doctrines. Read More »