A mission to Mars returns with crew members missing and comatose, and only Dr Iris Ryan (Nora Hayden) can be made conscious to tell the…
Browsing: Movies – 1950s
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This on-target animated cartoon faithfully based on George Orwell’s political satire was the first-ever feature-length British animated film. Until the final reel, Animal Farm sticks faithfully to…
Flashy film version of the Broadway hit musical about Annie Oakley, the celebrated female sharpshooter. Oakley (Betty Hutton) joins the famous Wild West Show of…
Lancaster stars as Massai, an angry Apache Indian warrior who boldly crusades for justice for his tribe and then settles down. For once, the men…
Appointment in London covers one hectic but typical month in Summer 1943 among the men of RAF Bomber Command. Tired but tenacious Wing Commander Tim Mason…
A splendid, charming film version of Jules Verne’s magnificent travelogue with spectacular sketches from various parts of the world and scores of cameos from an…
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…
American singing sensation Bobby Denver ‘the crying crooner’ (whose tearful singing technique has a traumatic effect on females, schoolgirls and little old ladies alike) arrives…
Thanks to its emphasis on character, this film noir about an old crook fresh out of jail who brings a gang of criminals together for…
An unidentified man is shot and thrown into the River Thames. He is rescued and rushed to the hospital where, during surgery, his heart stops…
In the distant future of 1968 (!) many ships and planes are crossing the North pole to transport passengers and cargo. But lately, several ships…
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 as…
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 this…
Fragile Fox is an American rifle company occupying a town in Belgium near the frontline in the closing days of WWII. They are commanded by…
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…
Young German exchange student Wolf Hauser (Hardy Kruger) comes to university at Cambridge to study maths and has trouble dealing with amusing stereotypes of the…
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 insider…
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 in…
Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) has the adults in her life completely fooled, but when her uncontrolled hellishness leads her to murder schoolmate Claude Daigle in…
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…
