The art dealer Kleber is on the verge of ruin due to his wife’s excessive spending. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Trial (1955) Mark Robson, Glenn Ford
Adapted by Don M. Mankiewicz from his own novel, Trial is a surprisingly timely story Read More »
The Petty Girl (1950) Henry Levin, Robert Cummings, Joan Caulfield, Elsa Lanchester
An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his arwork. Read More »
Forbidden Games (1952) René Clément, Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée
A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. Read More »
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) Terence Fisher, Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee
A remake of “The Man in Half Moon Street” (1945) (qv.). Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Read More »
The Charge Is Murder / Atto di accusa (1950) Giacomo Gentilomo, Lea Padovani, Marcello Mastroianni, Karl Ludwig Diehl
A luckless young teacher is suspected of committing two murders. Read More »
Le rouge est mis / Speaking of Murder (1957) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Marcel Bozzuffi
Louis Bertain, a respectable garage owner by day, is the head of a band of notorious crooks by night. Read More »
Separate Tables (1958) Delbert Mann, Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven
It’s the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Read More »
The End of the Affair (1955) Edward Dmytryk, Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills
In wartorn London Maurice Bendrix falls in love with neighbor Sarah Miles. Read More »
Arena (1953) Richard Fleischer, Gig Young, Jean Hagen, Polly Bergen
M-G-M’s first 3-D production shot at a rodeo in Tucson, Arizona is a story surrounded by objects flying into the camera. Read More »