Artists And Models (1954)
Artists and Models, which provided the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis duo with its finest screen hour, is a dizzily self-reflexive play on movie illusion.
Eugene Fullstack...
As Long As They’re Happy (1957)
American singing sensation Bobby Denver 'the crying crooner' (whose tearful singing technique has a traumatic effect on females, schoolgirls and little old ladies alike)...
Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
Thanks to its emphasis on character, this film noir about an old crook fresh out of jail who brings a gang of criminals together...
Atomic Submarine, The (1959)
In the distant future of 1968 (!) many ships and planes are crossing the North pole to transport passengers and cargo. But lately, several...
Attack Of The 50Ft Woman (1958)
Though it's no more than a barely competent example of low-budget 1950s sci-fi, this poverty row cheapie directed by Nathan Hertz (more usually known...
Attack Of The Puppet People (1958)
Doll manufacturer Mr Franz (John Hoyt) of Dolls, Inc. gets lonely and starts reducing people to marionette size so they'll be his obedient "friends" in...
Baby Doll (1956)
One of the best of Tennessee Williams's steamy southern dramas about mendacity under the magnolias, this rare, seldom-revived movie classic is a welcome treasure.
Shot...
Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)
Still the best Hollywood-on-Hollywood movie, The Bad and The Beautiful is loosely based on the career of David O. Selznick, detouring to take in a few...
Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)
It's 1945, just after World War II, and Spencer Tracy is John J. Macreedy - a one-armed ex-army man who steps off the train...
Bad Seed, The (1956)
Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) has the adults in her life completely fooled, but when her uncontrolled hellishness leads her to murder a schoolmate in...
Band Wagon, The (1953)
Fred Astaire and Michael Kidd choreographed this gem of a Hollywood musical produced by MGM.
The Band Wagon began as a revue which opened in 1931...
Barefoot Contessa, The (1954)
The surface appeal of The Barefoot Contessa is obvious: Ava Gardner at her most glamorous as the rags-to-riches star Maria Vargas alongside Humphrey Bogart at his...
Battle in Outer Space (1959)
In 1965 bizarre phenomena cause disasters all over the world. The United Nations traces the destructive acts to alien forces called Natalians.
At the Japanese...
Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The (1953)
Near the Arctic Circle, an atomic bomb is detonated. This fearsome experiment disturbs the sleep of a giant rhedosaurus encased in ice for more...
Beat Generation, The (1959)
Psycho Steve Hess (Ray Danton) spends his time raping chicks until cop Dave Culloran (Steve Cochran) catches on and tracks him down.
Hess's modus operandi...
Beat The Devil (1953)
Easily one of the most irreverent, tongue-in-cheek movies made under Hollywood auspices, Beat The Devil stands out for many reasons.
First, the amount and level of talent...
Bedtime For Bonzo (1951)
Future US president Ronald Reagan starred as Professor Peter Boyd, who becomes a surrogate parent to a chimpanzee named Bonzo.
Disregard the political angle and...
Beginning of the End (1957)
Newspaper photojournalist Audrey Ames (Peggie Castle) stumbles upon the town of Ludlow in Illinois, which has been inexplicably destroyed with all its population missing...
Behemoth The Sea Monster (1959)
The monster with the biblical name took the form of Palaeosaurus - and not only had the prehistoric monster become radioactive through atomic tests,...
Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
Based on John Van Druten's hit play, this adroit romantic comedy stars Kim Novak as Gil Holroyd - a witch living in modern Manhattan.
She wants...
