Ex-prize fighter Mark Miller, now a sports writer, sets out to expose Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Hot Car Girl (1958) Bernard L. Kowalski, Richard Bakalyan, June Kenney, Robert Knapp
Instead of working for a living, Duke and Freddie steal auto accessories and sell to a fence. Read More »
Witness in the Dark (1959) Wolf Rilla, Patricia Dainton, Conrad Phillips, Madge Ryan
A killer breaks into an apartment to steal a valuable brooch. Read More »
Canyon Crossroads (1955) Alfred L. Werker, Richard Basehart, Phyllis Kirk, Stephen Elliott
A mining engineer, who is shunned by his peers for his unorthodox beliefs concerning the whereabouts of large uranium deposits Read More »
Nero and the Burning of Rome AKA Nerone e Messalina (1953) Primo Zeglio, Gino Cervi, Paola Barbara, Yvonne Sanson
The dissolute Nero has come to the imperial throne through the machinations Read More »
Frine Courtesan of Orient AKA Frine, cortigiana d’Oriente (1953) Mario Bonnard, Elena Kleus, Pierre Cressoy, Tamara Lees
Little known Italian film from 1953 about the historical Phryne (she was real), a famous courtesan. Read More »
Love from Paris AKA Monpti (1957) Helmut Käutner, Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Mara Lane
A poor 22 y.o. Hungarian man who’s recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 y.o. Parisian girl. Read More »
At Gunpoint (1955) Alfred L. Werker, Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, Walter Brennan
The Dennis gang wants to rob the bank of the sleepy peaceful town of Plainview, Texas. Read More »
Wet Asphalt AKA Nasser Asphalt (1958) Frank Wisbar, Horst Buchholz, Martin Held, Maria Perschy
In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months Read More »
Teenage Doll (1957) Roger Corman, June Kenney, Fay Spain, John Brinkley
The Black Widows, a teenage girl gang, find one of their number killed Read More »
It Happened to Jane (1959) Richard Quine, Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
Jane Osgood is trying to support her two young children by running a lobster business. Read More »
Operation Mad Ball (1957) Richard Quine, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Kathryn Grant
Private Hogan must raise his ability to scheme and plot to a new level to put Read More »
The Forbidden Christ AKA Il Cristo proibito (1951) Curzio Malaparte, Raf Vallone, Rina Morelli, Alain Cuny
Back in his village, former war prisoner Bruno Baldi is dead set on avenging his brother Read More »
Return to Treasure Island (1954) Ewald André Dupont, Tab Hunter, Dawn Addams, Porter Hall
American academic Clive Stone is conducting research on pirate lore for a book. Read More »
Money, Women and Guns (1958) Richard Bartlett, Jock Mahoney, Kim Hunter, Tim Hovey
Just after making a large gold discovery, an old prospector is ambushed and killed Read More »