
Adapting Jaroslav Hasek’s raucous satirical novel, and also bringing Josef Lada’s Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
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 »
Vengeance Valley (1951) Richard Thorpe, Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru

A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. Read More »
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 »