Aimless youth Rick Martin learns he has a gift for music and falls in love with the trumpet. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Good Soldier Schweik / Dobrý voják Svejk (1957) Karel Steklý, Rudolf Hrusínský, Svatopluk Benes, Frantisek Filipovský
Film version of the famous satirical novel unfinished Jaroslav Hašek Czech writer, published in 1921 and 1922 Read More »
The Good Soldier Schweik / Dobrý voják Svejk (1954) Jirí Trnka, Jan Werich
Adapting Jaroslav Hasek’s raucous satirical novel, and also bringing Josef Lada’s Read More »
The Brothers Karamazov (1958) Richard Brooks, Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine Read More »
Juliette, or Key of Dreams / Juliette ou La clef des songes (1951) Marcel Carné, Gérard Philipe, Suzanne Cloutier, Jean-Roger Caussimon
Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. Read More »
A Wife’s Heart / Tsuma no kokoro (1956) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. Read More »
Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956) William Beaudine, Fess Parker, Kathleen Crowley, Jeff York
Wagon master James Stephen leads a wagon train of settlers, including his wife Read More »
It’s Great to Be Young! (1956) Cyril Frankel, John Mills, Cecil Parker, John Salew
Mr. Dingle is the popular music teacher in an English school, but when the headmaster threatens to close down the school band Read More »
Hoedown (1950) Ray Nazarro, Eddy Arnold, Jeff Donnell, Jock Mahoney
Cowboy movie star Stoney Rhodes (Jock Mahoney as Jock O’Mahoney) has made one western film Read More »
Child of Sorrow (1956) Anak Dalita
Lamberto Avellana’s neorealist drama about a man forced to participate in a smuggling ring Read More »