Blonde ‘doll’ Christine Carroll finds too late that her fiancée Mike is a gangster and she’s his unwitting accessory. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Set in the last few years of the shogun’s rule, this period/ensemble movie depicts the lives of the young and the restless at a whorehouse. Read More »
Woman Basketball Player No. 5 (1957) Jin Xie, Qiwei Cao, Qiong Liu, Yi Qin
Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women’s basketball team. Read More »
Summer Love (1958) Charles F. Haas, John Saxon, Molly Bee, Rod McKuen
A coed summer resort camp rocks with music and romance when a group of entertainers arrives to kick off the season. Read More »
Onna no sono / The Garden of Women (1954) Keisuke Kinoshita, Mieko Takamine, Hideko Takamine, Keiko Kishi
A student at a woman’s university takes a controversial action against the school’s old-fashioned doctrines. Read More »
The Blue Pearl (1951) Ishirô Honda, Yuriko Hamada, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Ryô Ikebe
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama Read More »
The House on the Coast (1954) Bosko Kosanovic, René Deltgen, Bert Sotlar, Nadja Regin
The story takes place in a town on Adriatic coast. Mother wants to marry her daughter to a wealthy doctor Read More »
Three Make a Pair (1957) Sacha Guitry, Clément Duhour, Michel Simon, Sophie Desmarets, Philippe Nicaud
An actor was murdered in Montmartre while filming a comedy. Commissioner Bernard was immediately in charge Read More »
Cause for Alarm! (1951) Tay Garnett, Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
Invalid George Jones is both physically and mentally ill. He mistakenly believes his wife Ellen Read More »
The Jazz Singer (1952) Michael Curtiz, Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, Eduard Franz
Jerry dreams to become a famous jazz singer. But in order to accomplish that, he must defy his father Read More »