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Tag Archives: 1950s
Phantom from Space (1953) W. Lee Wilder, Ted Cooper, Tom Daly, Steve Acton
An alien being with the power of invisibility lands in Santa Monica. Read More »
Nishi Ginza Station / Nishi Ginza ekimae (1958) Shôhei Imamura, Frank Nagai, Shin’ichi Yanagisawa, Hisano Yamaoka
This Japanese comedy is bookended by Frank Nagai’s title song, and Nagai keeps cropping up throughout the film Read More »
Hunted (1952) Charles Crichton, Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars
Violent fugitive and mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority. Read More »
The Man in the Road (1956) Lance Comfort
A man suffering from amnesia is held at an English country estate, used as a sanatorium. Read More »
Fort Yuma (1955) Lesley Selander, Peter Graves, Joan Vohs, John Hudson
A disgruntled settler kills an Apache chief at Fort Yuma, and the fort’s commander Read More »
An Osaka Story / Ôsaka monogatari (1957) Kôzaburô Yoshimura, Raizô Ichikawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Shintarô Katsu
Story follows a poor peasant family that through hardship gets some money and how that change them. Read More »
Riviera / La spiaggia (1954) Alberto Lattuada, Martine Carol, Raf Vallone, Mario Carotenuto
Annamaria, an ex-prostitute, takes her young daughter from convent school with her on a summer vacation. Read More »
Black Patch (1957) Allen H. Miner, George Montgomery, Diane Brewster, Tom Pittman
A New Mexico Town Marshal, Clay Morgan, known as ‘Black Patch’ since he had lost Read More »
Affair with a Stranger (1953) Roy Rowland, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Linda Douglas
When a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces that the marriage between now successful Read More »