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Tag Archives: 1950s
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) Herbert L. Strock, Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton
Professor Frankenstein, a university lecturer with an alligator pit under his house Read More »
The High and the Mighty (1954) William A. Wellman, John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day
One disaster after another happens on this trans-Pacific flight. Read More »
El Lazarillo de Tormes (1959) César Fernández Ardavín, Marco Paoletti, Juanjo Menéndez, Carlos Casaravilla
An adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth century novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), it tells the story of Lazarillo Read More »
An Inn at Osaka (1954) Heinosuke Gosho, Shûji Sano, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Mito
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company Read More »
Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny / Real End of the Great War (1957) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Lucyna Winnicka, Roland Glowacki, Andrzej Szalawski
Sweethearts Juliusz (Roland Glowacki) and Roza (Lucyna Winnicka) meet just prior Read More »
Yield to the Night (1956) J. Lee Thompson, Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
A young woman who has been abused and taken advantage of by all the men in her life Read More »
Vengeance / La venganza (1958) Juan Antonio Bardem, Carmen Sevilla, Raf Vallone, Jorge Mistral
In rural Spain, sister of an ex con convinces him to take revenge against the local who tipped Read More »
Wife for a Night / Moglie per una notte (1952) Mario Camerini, Gino Cervi, Gina Lollobrigida, Nadia Gray
A libidinous count, out of his wife’s sight, pursues a mysterious woman. Read More »
So Big (1953) Robert Wise, Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Olson
After the death of her father and the loss of his fortune, Selina takes a job teaching school Read More »