Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
The Return of Jesse James (1950) Arthur Hilton, John Ireland, Ann Dvorak, Henry Hull
Johnny looks so much like the real Jesse, he is mistaken for him by a grizzled Read More »
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 »