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Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
The Back of Beyond (1954) John Heyer

A documentary film which follows a mailman as he travels along the Birdsville Track in the Outback. Read More »
Encore (1951) Harold French, Pat Jackson, Nigel Patrick, Roland Culver, Alison Leggatt

The film is made from three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham. The first, “The Ant and the Grasshopper” concerns the trials Read More »
Down Among the Z Men (1952) Maclean Rogers, Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine, Spike Milligan

Professor Pure Heart absentmindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones’ Grocery Shop. Read More »
She Gods of Shark Reef (1958) Roger Corman, Bill Cord, Don Durant, Lisa Montell

Two men escaping the police by ship are blown off course by a typhoon Read More »
The Snorkel (1958) Guy Green, Peter van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller

Paul Decker murders his wife in her Italian villa by drugging her milk and asphyxiating her by gas. Read More »
The Maverick Queen (1956) Joseph Kane, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Scott Brady

Kit Banion, a Virginia-born beauty and product of post-Civil War chaos, has settled in Wyoming and prospered Read More »
The Magician / Ansiktet (1958) Ingmar Bergman, Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand

When ‘Vogler’s Magnetic Health Theater’ comes to town, there’s bound to be a spectacle. Read More »