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Tag Archives: 1950s
Lisbon (1956) Ray Milland, Maureen O’Hara, Claude Rains
High stakes battle of wits and morals between gentlemen crooks, set in beautiful Portugal. Read More »
The Square Ring (1953) Basil Dearden, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Bill Owen
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers. Read More »
Young Man with a Horn (1950) Michael Curtiz
Aimless youth Rick Martin learns he has a gift for music and falls in love with the trumpet. Read More »
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)
Wagon master James Stephen leads a wagon train of settlers, including his wife Read More »