A successful theatrical director is driven to failure by the machinations of his vengeful wife. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Winner’s Circle / Premières armes (1950) René Wheeler, Michèle Alfa, Julien Carette, Guy Decomble
The heroes are young boys, trained as jockeys in a horse farm. Read More »
Forgive Our Trespasses / Pardonnez nos offenses (1956) Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Pierre Vaneck, Giani Esposito
In a port area of France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies. Read More »
Unchained (1955) Hall Bartlett, Elroy ‘Crazylegs’ Hirsch, Barbara Hale, Chester Morris
A convict in a medium-security prison is torn between his need to finish his sentence Read More »
Svengali (1954) Noel Langley, Hildegard Knef, Donald Wolfit, Terence Morgan
Story of genius who hypnotizes an artist’s model into becoming a great concert singer Read More »
Time Lock (1957) Gerald Thomas, Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall
A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than 10 hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy. Read More »
Fear (1954) Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wieman, Renate Mannhardt
Irene Wagner, the wife of prominent scientist Albert Wagner, finds herself blackmailed about her affair by her lover’s jealous ex-girlfriend. Read More »
Gold Raiders (1951) Edward Bernds, George O’Brien, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard
On his way to Red Mesa to insure mine owners against loss from raids on their ore shipments Read More »
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954) Lew Landers, Anthony Dexter, Eva Gabor, Alan Hale Jr.
Anthony Dexter—bare-chested most of the film with the smoldering nostrils from “Valentino”—as “Captain Kidd” Read More »
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 »