Among the first Japanese films to deal directly with the scars of World War II Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Boum sur Paris (1953) Maurice de Canonge, Édith Piaf, Jacques Pills, Mick Micheyl
In this French musical comedy, the search for a bottle of perfume containing an explosive ingredient Read More »
Men and Wolves / Uomini e lupi (1957) Giuseppe De Santis, Leopoldo Savona, Silvana Mangano, Yves Montand, Pedro Armendáriz
A draft, his wife, his son and a man who pretends to come to a miserable lobero people of Abruzzo. Read More »
Amei um Bicheiro (1953) Jorge Ileli, Paulo Wanderley, Cyl Farney, Eliana, Grande Otelo
Intent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun. Read More »
It Grows on Trees (1952) Arthur Lubin, Irene Dunne, Dean Jagger, Joan Evans
The Baxters are a typical happy American family trying to live on too little money. Read More »
The Damned Don’t Cry (1950) Vincent Sherman, Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
The murder of gangster Nick Prenta rolls an evaluation of mysterious socialite Read More »
Walk East on Beacon! (1952) Alfred L. Werker, George Murphy, Finlay Currie, Virginia Gilmore
An FBI agent (George Murphy) works with a refugee scientist (Finlay Currie) Read More »
Bright Victory (1951) Mark Robson, Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julie Adams
In North Africa during World War II, Sergeant Larry Nevins is blinded by a German sniper’s bullet. Read More »
The Kaiser’s Lackey / Der Untertan (1951) Wolfgang Staudte, Werner Peters, Paul Esser, Renate Fischer
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. Read More »
The Tinder Box / Das Feuerzeug (1959) Siegfried Hartmann, Rolf Ludwig, Heinz Schubert, Rolf Defrank
A young soldier discovers three chests of copper, silver and gold and an old tinder-box in the hollow of an old oak tree. Read More »