The Dai-bosatsu toge saga (a trilogy) is based on Kaizan Nakazatos unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
She Didn’t Say No (1958) Cyril Frankel
Bridget Monaghan, a dressmaker and mother of six illegitimate children, tries to maintain Read More »
Green Mansions (1959) Mel Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Read More »
The Buster Keaton Story (1957) Sidney Sheldon, Donald O’Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming
Buster Keaton leaves his family vaudeville act for the movies. Read More »
Chikamatsus Love in Osaka (1959) Tomu Uchida
The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, finding that she’s going Read More »
All American (1953) Jesse Hibbs, Tony Curtis, Lori Nelson, Richard Long
Nick Bonelli, quarterback for Mid-State, proves himself an All American in the championship Read More »
Rosemary / Das Mädchen Rosemarie (1958) Rolf Thiele
West Germany in ’50s is becoming an economic superpower. Read More »
Arms and the Man / Helden (1958) Franz Peter Wirth
1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. Read More »
The Vintage (1957) Jeffrey Hayden, Pier Angeli, Mel Ferrer, John Kerr
Brothers Giancarlo and Ernesto Barandero have crossed illegally from Italy into France. Read More »
The Case Against Brooklyn (1958) Paul Wendkos, Darren McGavin, Margaret Hayes, Warren Stevens
When a reporter claims that New York police are on the take letting the mob run its horse parlors at will Read More »