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Browsing: 1950s Movies
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Produced in England, Michael Anderson’s 1955 version of George Orwell’s dystopian novel is set in a futuristic 1984 and remains faithful to its source, concentrating…
An American rocket returning from the first manned space flight to Venus crashes into the sea near Sicily. One of the crew members is killed,…
For its first big-budget live-action movie, Disney turned to a classic: Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The studio also turned to a few major Hollywood…
This quite extraordinary anti-communist tract masquerades as naive science fiction. An alien (Arnold Moss) transports five people from five different countries on Earth to his…
Army buddies Jerry Hotchkiss (Jerry Lewis) and Pete Nelson (Dean Martin) join a circus after they are discharged from their military service. Jerry is so…
Research scientist Scott Nelson (Robert Lansing) discovers the secret of passing through solid matter when he accidentally opens a fourth dimension thanks to an electric…
Beloved children’s author Dr Seuss (real name Theodore Geisel) made his first and only foray into feature films with The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T, which he conceived,…
This film was made to capitalise on the tremendous success of the BBC pop music TV show, Six-Five Special. It had a slender plot designed…
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad brought the legendary sailor into combat with a variety of creatures, all brought to life by the stop-motion magic of special…
William Darling (Frankie Howerd), the popular and indispensable hall porter at London’s Royal Connaught Hotel, inherits a fortune (£10,000). After a spree on the French…
Having run out of exotic backgrounds on Earth, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello accidentally launch a rocket ship and think they’ve landed on Mars -…
Between meeting Dracula and the Invisible Man, Abbott and Costello took time out to cavort on existing sets on Universal’s backlot, but they could well…
Swashbuckling nonsense as Abbott and Costello go in search of the titular pirate’s secret treasure when, as two tavern waiters on the pirate island of…
Robert Louis Stevenson probably spun wildly in his grave over this production as Slim (Bud Abbott) and Tubby (Lou Costello) – two American police officers…
When innocent boxer Tommy Nelson (Arthur Franz) is set up and charged for killing his manager, he steals a serum from Dr Philip Gray (Gavin…
Two goofy innocents in New York – Harry ‘Slim’ Pierce (Abbott) and Willie ‘Tubby’ Piper (Costello) – are tricked into paying $5,000 for a bottom-of-the-barrel…
When Abbott and Costello – as two stranded Americans in modern-day Egypt – inadvertently become involved in a search for the Sacred Medallion of the…
This Hammer production was released in the US as The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas and featured ‘token’ American actor Forrest Tucker, whose value to the…
Biff Roberts (Eddie Bracken), Tony Williams (Gordon MacRae) and Dave Crouse (Dick Wesson) are just three months away from graduating as US Army officers from…