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Tag Archives: 1950s
Curfew Breakers / Hooked (1957) Alexander J. Wells

Police Lieutenant Lacey, with aid from Coach Bettger, heads a crack-down on dope-peddling to high-school athletes. Read More »
Lizzie (1957) Hugo Haas, Eleanor Parker, Richard Boone

Elizabeth has reoccurring headaches and trouble sleeping. Threatening letters signed by Lizzie Read More »
El pendiente (1951) León Klimovsky, Graciliano Batista

When a woman goes to see an ex-boyfriend who blackmails her, she leaves behind an earring Read More »
Pillow Talk (1959) Michael Gordon, Rock Hudson, Doris Day

In New York, the interior decorator Jan Morrow and the wolf composer Brad Allen share a party line Read More »
Happy Go Lovely (1951) H. Bruce Humberstone, David Niven

B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland Read More »
Montana Belle (1952) Allan Dwan, Jane Russell, George Brent

In a fictionalized biography, Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching Read More »
Hot Car Girl (1958) Bernard L. Kowalski, Richard Bakalyan

Instead of working for a living, Duke and Freddie steal auto accessories and sell to a fence. Read More »
Lyana (1955) Boris Barnet, Kyunna Ignatova

Young musicians live and perform in a Moldovan collective. The state awards to 3 boys are secretly Read More »
Carmen Comes Home (1951) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine

With no practical skills and being slightly scatterbrained, Kin Aoyama ran away Read More »