
After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Belle of Rome / La bella di Roma (1955) Luigi Comencini, Alberto Sordi, Silvana Pampanini, Paolo Stoppa

Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman. Read More »
The Bold and the Brave (1956) Lewis R. Foster, Mickey Rooney, Wendell Corey, Don Taylor

An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944. Read More »
Abenteuer in Wien / Adventures in Vienna (1952) Emil E. Reinert, Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers, Adrienne Gessner

In postwar Vienna, fate brings together a petty crook working under the table as a taxi driver and a famous concert pianist. Read More »
Pier 23 (1951) William Berke, Hugh Beaumont, Ann Savage

In the first of two separate stories, Private-Detective Dennis O’Brien becomes involved Read More »
Roaring City (1951) William Berke, Hugh Beaumont, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis

Dennis O’Brien is hired by Barton to bet on Harper, an old fighter, against Lundy Read More »
Our Girl Friday (1953) Noel Langley, Joan Collins, George Cole, Kenneth More

Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. Read More »
Uçan daireler Istanbulda / Flying Saucers Over Istanbul (1955) Orhan Erçin, Zafer Önen, Halide Piskin

A reporter and a photographer intercept a message from space that announces the descent of a flying saucer. Read More »
It Started with a Kiss (1959) George Marshall, Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Eva Gabor

Air Force Sgt. Joe Fitzpatrick meets and marries a beautiful model, Maggie Putnam, on the eve of being shipped off to Spain. Read More »
Adam Wants to Be a Man / Adomas nori buti zmogumi (1959) Vytautas Zalakevicius, Vitalijus Puodziukaitis, Audrone Bajerciute, Stasis Petronaitis

In a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds Read More »