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Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
Flucht ins Schilf / Brutality (1953) Kurt Steinwendner, Heinz Altringen, Kurt Jaggberg, Ilka Windish

Am Neusiedlersee wird die Leiche eines Postboten gefunden, die Ermittlungen ergeben Read More »
Meshi / Repast (1951) Mikio Naruse, Ken Uehara, Setsuko Hara, Yukiko Shimazaki

Michiyo moved to Osaka two years ago, when her husband Hatsunosuke who works Read More »
Kyo mo mata kakute ari nan / Thus Another Day (1959) Keisuke Kinoshita, Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, Kanzaburô Nakamura, Drama, Romance

A young wife looses patience with her career-minded husband and returns to her parents’ home Read More »
Dokuritsu gurentai / Desperate Outpost (1959) Kihachi Okamoto, Makoto Satô, Izumi Yukimura, Misa Uehara

When Sergeant Okubo’s brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War Read More »
The Trollenberg Terror (1958) Quentin Lawrence, Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne

A remote mountain resort in Switzerland is invaded by horrible alien creatures that like to decapitate humans. Read More »
The Schemer / Reproduction interdite (1957) Gilles Grangier, Michel Auclair, Paul Frankeur, Giani Esposito

The art dealer Kleber is on the verge of ruin due to his wife’s excessive spending. Read More »
Trial (1955) Mark Robson, Glenn Ford

Adapted by Don M. Mankiewicz from his own novel, Trial is a surprisingly timely story Read More »