On 30 January 1925, a man named William Floyd Collins became trapped underground while exploring a network of caves beneath his native Kentucky. Attempts to…
Browsing: Movies – 1950s
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Rod Steiger is Carl Schaffner, a crooked German-born businessman on the run from Scotland Yard and the FBI after embezzling £3 million in company funds.…
While other films of the time were banned and condemned by the Catholic Church because of nudity, this Mexican Eastmancolor film was given an “A-3″…
Lord Loam (Cecil Parker) is a peer of one of England’ stately homes who takes his three daughters on a yachting cruise with a few…
Set in German East Africa at the beginning of World War I this magnificent comedy tells the tale of an unlikely romance between Rose Sayer,…
1919, Chicago. A young scar-faced hoodlum joins one of the underworld gangs terrorising the city. Surrounded by corruption and murder, only the most ruthless will survive…
The events presented in Albert R.N. are based on fact and took place in the prison camp, Marlag O for Naval Officers in North-West Germany…
An epic account of the young prince whose military conquests unified the civilised world in the fourth century BC. Alexander (Richard Burton), son of Philip…
Having acquired the rights to the Tenniel drawings in the 1930s, Walt Disney hoped to star Mary Pickford in the first animated retelling of Alice’s…
This biting backstage comedy-drama about a fading actress, played by Bette Davis, brims generously with entertainment values: a witty screenplay, top performances by a marvellous…
Mary (Jill Day) is the daughter of a hotel proprietor at a Swiss skiing resort, and since she is a very beautiful blonde she gets…
Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson star in this predictable soap opera about pleasant and wealthy middle-class widow, Cary Scott (Wyman) who marries her gardener, Ron…
Told entirely in flashback, Jane Marvin (Beverly Garland) remembers her troubled past for two psychiatrists (Bruce Bennett and Douglas Kennedy) during an extended hypnosis session…
US Army Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Manning (Glenn Langan) is exposed to radiation after a plutonium bomb test in Nevada and mutates into a giant -…
Sam Dent (Glenn Ford) sets off on the long journey from Texas to Brazil with a cargo of prize Brahma bulls for a wealthy Brazilian rancher.…
Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr star in this syrupy sob story, which is actually a remake by director Leo McCarey of his own 1939 movie Love…
The great strength of classic British screen comedies often lies not so much in the stars of the story but in the supporting cast, drawn…
The music of George and Ira Gershwin underscores this Academy Award-winning tale of an artist caught between two women in post-war Paris. Shot almost entirely…
Set in the year 1912, an upper crust English family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to…
A charming drama set in Paris in 1928. Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming…
