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Tag Archives: 1950s
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952) Henry King, Jean Peters, David Wayne, Hugh Marlowe

Ben Halper sets up his barber’s shop at the turn of the century in Sevillinois and watches the town grow around him. Read More »
The Sheepman (1958) George Marshall, Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Nielsen

A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance Read More »
Walk Softly, Stranger (1950) Robert Stevenson, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Spring Byington

A charming, smooth-talking gambler calling himself Chris Hale arrives in Ashton, home of the Corelli shoe factory. Read More »
From Hell to Texas (1958) Henry Hathaway, Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chill Wills

The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Read More »
Kisses (1957) Yasuzô Masumura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Aiko Mimasu

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. Read More »
Les intrigantes / The Plotters (1954) Henri Decoin, Raymond Rouleau, Jeanne Moreau, Raymond Pellegrin

A stage director (Raymond Rouleau) becomes the prime suspect in the death of his assistant Read More »
The Gambler (1958) Claude Autant-Lara, Gérard Philipe, Liselotte Pulver, Françoise Rosay

In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden Read More »
Because of You (1952) Joseph Pevney, Loretta Young, Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol

Blonde ‘doll’ Christine Carroll finds too late that her fiancée Mike is a gangster and she’s his unwitting accessory. Read More »
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida

Set in the last few years of the shogun’s rule, this period/ensemble movie depicts the lives of the young and the restless at a whorehouse. Read More »