
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 »
Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
The Charge Is Murder / Atto di accusa (1950) Giacomo Gentilomo, Lea Padovani, Marcello Mastroianni, Karl Ludwig Diehl

A luckless young teacher is suspected of committing two murders. Read More »
Le rouge est mis / Speaking of Murder (1957) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Marcel Bozzuffi

Louis Bertain, a respectable garage owner by day, is the head of a band of notorious crooks by night. Read More »
Separate Tables (1958) Delbert Mann, Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven

It’s the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Read More »
The End of the Affair (1955) Edward Dmytryk, Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills

In wartorn London Maurice Bendrix falls in love with neighbor Sarah Miles. Read More »
Arena (1953) Richard Fleischer, Gig Young, Jean Hagen, Polly Bergen

M-G-M’s first 3-D production shot at a rodeo in Tucson, Arizona is a story surrounded by objects flying into the camera. Read More »
Inside the Mafia (1959) Edward L. Cahn, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Strauss, Grant Richards

Mafia gunmen sent by their boss to kill a rival gang leader take over a small airfield where their target is scheduled to land. Read More »
Man from God’s Country (1958) Paul Landres, George Montgomery, Randy Stuart, Gregg Barton

Dan Beattie gives up his lawman job to move further west and rejoin his old war buddy Curt Warren in the town of Sundown. Read More »