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Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
The Petty Girl (1950) Henry Levin, Robert Cummings, Joan Caulfield, Elsa Lanchester
An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his arwork. Read More »
Forbidden Games (1952) René Clément, Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée
A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. Read More »
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) Terence Fisher, Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee
A remake of “The Man in Half Moon Street” (1945) (qv.). Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Read More »