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Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
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 »