While sailing lawfully up the Yangste river in 1949, the British warship Amethyst Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Interrupted Melody (1955) Curtis Bernhardt, Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore
Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. Read More »
Raintree County (1957) Edward Dmytryk, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint
An abolitionist John Wickliff Shawnessy drifts away from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither Read More »
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952) Henry King, Jean Peters, David Wayne, Hugh Marlowe
Ben Halper sets up his barber’s shop at the turn of the century in Sevillinois and watches the town grow around him. Read More »
The Sheepman (1958) George Marshall, Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Nielsen
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance Read More »
Walk Softly, Stranger (1950) Robert Stevenson, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Spring Byington
A charming, smooth-talking gambler calling himself Chris Hale arrives in Ashton, home of the Corelli shoe factory. Read More »
From Hell to Texas (1958) Henry Hathaway, Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chill Wills
The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Read More »
Kisses (1957) Yasuzô Masumura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Aiko Mimasu
Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. Read More »
Les intrigantes / The Plotters (1954) Henri Decoin, Raymond Rouleau, Jeanne Moreau, Raymond Pellegrin
A stage director (Raymond Rouleau) becomes the prime suspect in the death of his assistant Read More »
The Gambler (1958) Claude Autant-Lara, Gérard Philipe, Liselotte Pulver, Françoise Rosay
In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden Read More »