In a mythical, medieval North Africa (looking a lot like California) a Bedouin chief named Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Big Land (1957) Gordon Douglas, Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
Alan Ladd stars as a Kansas cattle rancher battling the elements Read More »
David Harding, Counterspy (1950) Ray Nazarro, Willard Parker
Based on the long-running radio program created by Philips H. Lord, the film opens Read More »
Man on Fire (1957) Ranald MacDougall, Bing Crosby, Inger Stevens, Mary Fickett
A wealthy businessman whose wife has divorced him is bitter Read More »
The Unknown Soldier / Tuntematon sotilas (1955) Edvin Laine, Kosti Klemelä, Heikki Savolainen, Reino Tolvanen
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. Read More »
These Thousand Hills (1959) Richard Fleischer, Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick
An ambitious cowboy will stop at nothing to get what he wants, including using the affections of two women. Read More »
Monkey on My Back (1957) André De Toth, Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Paul Richards
The true story of Barney Ross, a World War II hero and champion professional boxer, who became addicted to morphine. Read More »
A Hole in the Head (1959) Frank Capra, Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker
Tony Manetta runs an unsuccessful Miami hotel, on which he can’t meet the payments. Read More »
Goliath and the Barbarians / Il terrore dei barbari (1959) Carlo Campogalliani, Steve Reeves, Chelo Alonso, Bruce Cabot
When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them. Read More »
Un caprice de Caroline chérie (1953)
Caroline de Bienre, the 16-year-old daughter of French nobility, meets the handsome rogue Read More »