Nary a dull frame in this colourful knees-up from 20th Century-Fox about the hardy Dutch settlers in South Africa who founded the Boer-free state and…
Browsing: Movies – 1950s
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Mamie Van Doren and Lori Nelson star as hitchhiking chanteuse sisters, Penny and Janey Lowe, who are arrested for vagrancy and brought before naive old…
Sweet young Betty Miller (Norma Moore) moves from a small town farming community to work in a big department store in Los Angeles, where she…
Bill Mauldin’s battle-weary dog faces, Willie and Joe, from his famous World War II cartoons, come to hilarious and touching life in this picture. Willie…
British Naval officer Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) has an uncontrollable passion for building guided missiles that are constantly going off at the wrong time and…
It must have been very frustrating for the cast of accomplished British comedy performers, let alone for international stars Claudia Cardinale and Mylène Demongeot, to…
Young Chayley Broadbent (John Gregson) from Barfield, Yorkshire, inherits a sizeable legacy from his notoriously miserly millionaire industrialist father, John Henry Broadbent, upon his death.…
Debonair private detective Edward Mercer (Richard Todd) goes to Venice at the request of a millionaire to locate Renzo Uccello (John Gregson) – a brave…
When his Acrophobia (fear of heights) starts to impinge on his effectiveness as a San Francisco cop, John “Scottie” Ferguson (Jimmy Stewart) is compelled to…
Einar (Kirk Douglas) and Erik (Tony Curtis) are Viking half-brothers. Einar is a great warrior, Erik an ex-slave who makes a bitter enemy of Einar,…
Featuring one of several police characters Stanley Baker played in the late 50s/early 60s, Violent Playground fuses a crime story with a social-realist tale of…
One Friday in summer, three gunmen – Chapman (J. Carrol Naish), Dill (Lee Marvin) and Harper (Stephen McNally) – arrive in the small copper mining…
Handsome adventurer, navigator and statesman Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) gains an audience with Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) because he wants ships to sail to…
This bittersweet slice of nostalgia from 20th Century Fox tells in flashback the tale of a half-century in the life of small-town barber Ben Halper…
Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and shot on location in Italy at a cost of $6 million, War and Peace weighs in at 208 minutes. The money…
An unseen energy field in space repeatedly destroys manned spacecraft from the United Nations Sigma Project space program. A small missile-like object lands on Earth,…
Loosely adapted from H.G. Wells’ classic novel of the same name, this 1953 doomsday sci-fi was billed as a “mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as…
Warning from Space – originally titled Uchûjin Tôkyô ni arawaru (literally “Aliens Appear in Tokyo”) – was the first Japanese science fiction movie filmed in…
Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot) is the founder and owner of a large cosmetics company and former glamour model who is worried about getting old. Mad…
What do you do when you shoot too much footage for one movie? The answer that MGM came up with was to make up a…