
Marine Sergeant James O’Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Frankenstein 1970 (1958) Howard W. Koch, Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund

Baron Victor Von Frankenstein has fallen on hard times Read More »
Kismet (1955) Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen, Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray

Like a tale spun by Scheherazade, Kismet follows the remarkable and repeated changes of fortune that engulf a poor poet. Read More »
Growing Up Twice (1955) Heinosuke Gosho, Hibari Misora, Kôshirô Matsumoto, Takashi Kitahara

The story here is about boys and girls on the boundary between childhood and adulthood, living in Yoshiwara Read More »
Kill Me Tomorrow (1957) Terence Fisher, Pat O’Brien, Lois Maxwell, George Coulouris

A boozy old reporter finds his life is falling apart around him. He loses his wife and then his job. Read More »
Temptation (1959) Edmond T. Gréville, Magali Noël, Dawn Addams, Rossana Podestà

When a ship bringing a contingent of international wounded from Korea is torpedoed Read More »
The Snow Flurry (1959) Keisuke Kinoshita, Keiko Kishi, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga

Set in a rural village in the Shinshu region, this melodrama about lovers of different social Read More »
The Sleeping Tiger (1954) Joseph Losey, Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith, Alexander Knox

A psychotherapist attempts to rehabilitate a convict in his home after he breaks in. Read More »
Tales of Ginza (1955) Yûzô Kawashima, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yumeji Tsukioka, Mie Kitahara

When she was a little girl, Wakako Kyoguku’s portrait was painted by a talented young artist. Read More »
The Magic Box (1951) John Boulting, Robert Donat

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. Read More »