
Spoiled heiress Louise Durant (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) decides to leave the comfort Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Voice in the Mirror (1958) Harry Keller, Richard Egan, Julie London, Walter Matthau

Jim Burton has become a chronic alcoholic since the death of his young daughter, and is cared for by hard-working wife. Read More »
The Steel Fist (1952) Wesley Barry, Roddy McDowall, Kristine Miller, Harry Lauter

In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities. Read More »
Le défroqué / The Unfrocked One (1954) Léo Joannon, Pierre Fresnay, Pierre Trabaud, Nicole Stéphane

The struggle between a seminarian, Gérard Lacassagne, and a defrocked priest, Maurice Morand. Read More »
Sailor of the King (1953) Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller

The HMS Aylesbury is sunk by the the German raider Essen. Only two men survive and are rescued by the damaged German ship. Read More »
The Large Rope (1953) Wolf Rilla, Donald Houston, Robert Brown, Susan Shaw

After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time Read More »
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 »