
Anthony Dexter—bare-chested most of the film with the smoldering nostrils from “Valentino”—as “Captain Kidd” Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Wet Asphalt / Nasser Asphalt (1958) Frank Wisbar, Horst Buchholz, Martin Held, Maria Perschy

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months Read More »
Salt of the Earth (1954) Herbert J. Biberman, Juan Chacón, Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer

Based on an actual strike against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico, the film deals with the prejudice Read More »
Executive Suite (1954) Robert Wise, William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson

Avery Bullard, President of the Tredway Corporation has died. But he never named Read More »
Half Angel (1951) Richard Sale, Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Cecil Kellaway

Nora Gilpin is a demure nurse, who has just become engaged to her long-time beau, Tim. Read More »
The Singing Ringing Tree (1957) Francesco Stefani

A courageous prince would like to win the core of a princess that is stubborn by locating the singing, ringing tree to get her. Read More »
The Scamp (1957) Wolf Rilla, Richard Attenborough, Dorothy Alison, Colin Petersen

Mike Dawson, out-of-work burlesque actor, is too busy with his latest girlfriend Read More »
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) Raoul Walsh, Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie

Set in the early ’40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as the second World War has begun to intensify. Read More »
Time Without Pity (1957) Joseph Losey, Michael Redgrave

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie Read More »
Kiku to Isamu (1959) Tadashi Imai, Emiko Takahashi, Tanie Kitabayashi, George Okunoyama

Immediately after the Second World War, sister Kiku and brother Isamu, whose mother Read More »