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Tag Archives: 1950s
Escape by Night (1953) John Gilling, Bonar Colleano, Andrew Ray, Sidney James

An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story. Read More »
O.K. Nero / O.K. Nerone (1951) Mario Soldati, Carlo Campanini, Walter Chiari, Silvana Pampanini

Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome Read More »
Stories from Madrid / Historias de Madrid (1958) Ramón Comas, Tony Leblanc, Licia Calderón, Mario Morales

In Madrid, both the owner of a building and its tenants have asked help to San Nicolás Read More »
House of Numbers (1957) Russell Rouse, Jack Palance, Harold J. Stone, Edward Platt

Arnie Judlow, an inmate at San Quentin prison serving a life sentence for murder Read More »
Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock

Professional photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Read More »
Leda / À double tour (1959) Claude Chabrol, Madeleine Robinson, Antonella Lualdi, Jean-Paul Belmondo

Leda, the flirt of Monsieur Marcoux is murdered. His wife and the police think Read More »
Le beau Serge (1958) Claude Chabrol, Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michèle Méritz

Francois comes back to his home village in France after more than a decade. Read More »
The Passionate Stranger (1957) Muriel Box, Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Patricia Dainton

Novelist Judith Wynter gets inspiration for her new book when her wheelchair-bound Read More »
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina

This a film version of the opera “The Tales of Hoffmann”, however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. Read More »