A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Mirror Has Two Faces / Le miroir a deux faces (1958) André Cayatte, Michèle Morgan, Bourvil, Ivan Desny
A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. Read More »
Tarzan’s Fight for Life (1958) H. Bruce Humberstone, Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen
Dr. Sturdy is trying to establish a modern hospital in the jungle. Read More »
Wife AKA Tsuma (1953) Mikio Naruse, Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Rentarô Mikuni
Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa’s ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Read More »
Okefenokee (1959) Roul Haig, Peter Coe, Peggy Maley, Henry Brandon
Gangland boss Joe Kalhari, working with Ricki Hart, operator of a swamp-side dive Read More »
I Am a Camera (1955) Henry Cornelius
In the early thirties, aspiring writer Christopher Isherwood, living in Berlin Read More »
The Radio Commits a Burglary / Radio tekee murron (1951) Matti Kassila, Hannes Häyrinen, Ritva Arvelo, Kullervo Kalske
Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum Read More »
Men of Blue Cross / Blekitny krzyz (1955) Andrzej Munk, Gustaw Holoubek, Stanislaw Byrcyn-Gasienica, Tadeusz Gasienica-Giewont
The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment Read More »
Flowing / Nagareru (1956) Mikio Naruse, Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Read More »
The Redhead from Wyoming (1953) Lee Sholem, Maureen O’Hara, Alex Nicol, William Bishop
In Wyoming Territory, a range war is brewing between entrenched cattle barons and new settlers. Read More »