Humphrey Bogart is Dixon Steele, an embittered war veteran and washed-up Hollywood screenwriter who pays hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson (Martha Stewart) to help out with…
Browsing: Movies 1950
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Recently released from jail, Don Gregor (Clancy Malone) works for nasty bad guy Vic Brady (Timothy Farrell), who has a beautiful model moll called Loretta…
Adventure based on the classic novel by H Rider Haggard, starring Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger. It is 1897 and Elizabeth Curtis (Kerr) is on…
Farm equipment salesman George Bird (Alec Guinness) – a meek and ordinary bachelor – is told by his doctor that he has just six weeks…
Pa Kettle (Percy Kilbride) – a much-married man – wins a trip to New York in a slogan-writing competition for Bubble-ola soft drink. He and…
Madeleine is based on the true story of a trial that took place in 1857 when Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith was accused of murdering her…
Morning Departure must send a glow of pride through any British audience. Whether it will be liked by other nations is difficult to determine, for…
This classic example of film noir revolves around Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark), a sneering, sulking, small-time American grifter with delusions of grandeur who decides to…
This knockabout comedy interlaced with songs features Arthur Lucan in yet another dizzy dame adventure as Daphne Snowdrop Bluebell Riley. Kitty (Kitty McShane), the daughter…
Following the American Civil War, the Union turns its attention to the Apaches. Crusty Yankee Lieutenant Colonel Kirby Yorke (John Wayne) is in charge of…
Professor Willingdon (Barry Jones) – a timid but crazed English nuclear scientist – runs away from a government research centre with a stolen UR-12 atomic…
This murder mystery melodrama has handsome ex-RAF officer John Harding (Terence Morgan) come to stay at the flat of his breezy friend, Dick Stevens (Michael…
Young Englishman Johnny Barton (David Tomlinson) and his sister Vicky (Jean Simmons) are visiting the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris. When Vicky awakes in her hotel…
Idealistic and naive psychiatrist Dr John Jason (Paul Henreid) arrives at the Elmview Reform School for Troubled Girls and immediately begins to try to make a…
Attractive young Sally Martin (Yvonne Owen) inherits the family mansion and lives in it with her younger brother, Ronnie (Michael Medwin), an aspiring young newspaper…
In Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, the old Hollywood – in the form of Gloria Swanson’s forgotten silent star Norma Desmond – comes into uncomprehending and fatal…
Although They Were Not Divided is ostensibly a study of the training and action on the Western Front of a British Guards Armoured Division during…
Walt Disney’s first fully live-action film came about more from necessity than from a business plan. Both Disney and distributor RKO had a sizeable amount…
Lin McAdam (James Stewart) arrives in Dodge City in hot pursuit of his father’s killer. He wins a coveted Winchester ’73 repeating rifle (known as…
The Wooden Horse tells the true story of the escape in Summer 1943 of three English prisoners from Stalag Luft III – a Luftwaffe-run prisoner…