A former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
A Star Is Born (1954) George Cukor, Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson
Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett Read More »
Express Train from Andalucía / El expreso de Andalucía (1956) Francisco Rovira Beleta, Jorge Mistral, Marisa de Leza, Mara Berni
The handsome Andrade, the undergraduate Miguel and a street vendor Read More »
Nazarín (1959) Luis Buñuel, Marga López, Francisco Rabal, Rita Macedo
Nazarin is a priest, attempting to living a pure and honest life strictly according Read More »
Taira Clan Saga / Shin Heike monogatari (1955) Kenji Mizoguchi, Narutoshi Hayashi, Raizô Ichikawa, Tatsuya Ishiguro
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating Read More »
The Thick-Walled Room / Kabe atsuki heya (1956) Masaki Kobayashi, Kô Mishima, Torahiko Hamada, Keiko Kishi
Among the first Japanese films to deal directly with the scars of World War II Read More »
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 »