Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Bigger Than Life (1956) Nicholas Ray, James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery, who’s been suffering bouts of severe pain Read More »
Whispering Smith Hits London (1952) Francis Searle, Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt, Rona Anderson
An American railroad detective bumps heads with Scotland Yard in “Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard” Read More »
Rue des Prairies (1959) Denys de La Patellière
Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin) Read More »
The Green-Eyed Blonde (1957) Bernard Girard, Susan Oliver, Melinda Casey, Beverly Long
Moving story of a group in a home for wayward girls who find an illegal opportunity to be a family. Read More »
A Mother’s Love / Bojô (1950) Hiroshi Shimizu, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Musei Tokugawa, Yatarô Kurokawa
A poor mother leaves behind three children,whom she had with different fathers Read More »
The Respectful Whore / La p… respectueuse (1952) Charles Brabant, Marcello Pagliero, Barbara Laage, Ivan Desny, Walter Bryant
Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. Read More »
Stolen Identity (1953) Gunther von Fritsch, Donald Buka, Joan Camden, Francis Lederer
A jealous concert pianist murders his wife’s lover, then frames an innocent taxi driver for the crime. Read More »
Let’s Rock (1958) Harry Foster, Julius LaRosa, Phyllis Newman, Conrad Janis
Singer’s girlfriend helps him adjust to the new rock’n’roll music. Read More »
Man on the Tracks (1957) Andrzej Munk, Kazimierz Opalinski, Zygmunt Maciejewski, Zygmunt Zintel
In 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. Read More »