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Tag Archives: 1950s
The Magic Box (1951) John Boulting, Robert Donat
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. Read More »
Frenchie (1950) Louis King, Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Read More »
Odd Obsession (1959) Kon Ichikawa, Machiko Kyô, Ganjirô Nakamura, Junko Kanô
An ageing antique specialist in Kyoto, Japan is losing virility but finds himself excited when Read More »
The White Reindeer (1952) Erik Blomberg, Mirjami Kuosmanen, Kalervo Nissilä, Åke Lindman
A newlywed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life Read More »
Beau James (1957)
The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the ’20s. Read More »
The Glass Wall (1953) Maxwell Shane, Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson
Peter is a refugee who wants to make a better life for himself in America Read More »
Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952) Edmund Goulding, William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Mitzi Gaynor
World War II is over but Captain Willoby and his men must “occupy” remote Midi Island. Read More »
The Broken Horseshoe (1953) Martyn C. Webster, Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter Coke
Robert Beatty stars in this rapid-fire British programmer as an innocent bystander mixed up with drug smugglers. Read More »
The Hundred Kilometers (1959) La cento chilometri
Three men want to win a foot race around Rome. Caesar, a penniless young carpenter, aims to exceed one hundred kilometers. Read More »