It is 1850. 140 women are bound from Independence, Missouri, for a West Coast valley ranch where 100 bachelor cowboys await them. Rancher Roy Whitman…
Browsing: Movies – 1950s
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Before there was Deep Impact (1998) and Armageddon (1998), world destruction was done up in 1950s sci-fi style. The rights to Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer’s 1932 doomsday novel When Worlds…
When an old West Country farmer dies suddenly, and apparently without a will, a trio of his Cockney relatives gather at the ramshackle Devon farm…
This sparkling musical version of the popular Broadway show Charley’s Aunt has Ray Bolger in spanking form as Charley Wykeham, the student who is forced…
This borderline science fiction tale of a communist cell infiltrating a small American town and planning to unleash a devastating weapon of germ warfare was…
In this tinselled Technicolor spectacular, old WWII army buddies Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) are a song-and-dance team who travel to…
An airman fouls up a mission and loses the lives of a lot of good men. He subsequently takes a job flying a desk, and…
This is the original motorcycle-gang film and far and away the best. After being thrown out of a motorcycle event, the Black Rebels biker gang…
On a tropical island, a tribe of beautiful women from the village of Wongo discover that a village called Goona on the other side of…
Filmed in Technicolor at Elstree Studios, this adaptation of the long-running West End stage farce of the same name by Vernon Sylvaine stars George Cole…
TV commercial writer Rockwell P. Hunter (Tony Randall) is the lowest man on the totem pole at the advertising company where he works. That changes…
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…
Meek little Arthur Lee (Lionel Jeffries) has worked as the senior assistant in a drapery emporium for 35 years. One morning, on his way to…
U.S. Navy pilot Frank ‘Spig’ Wead (John Wayne) is a fun-loving and rowdy adventurer, but also a fierce proponent of Naval aviation. His dedication to…
After 20 years of marriage and running around after her husband Jim (Anthony Quayle) and son Brian (Andrew Ray), warm-hearted but feckless and domestically untidy…
This romantic comedy-drama alternates between London and Malta where brothers Carmello Gomez (singing star Frankie Vaughan) and his younger brother, Mario (Jeremy Spenser) fish for…
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…
Four astronauts – Hugh Marlowe, Rod Taylor, Christopher Dark and Nelson Leigh – are returning from the first mission to survey Mars in 1957 when…
Miner Ralph Burton (Harry Belafonte) lives through an atomic attack and meets two other survivors when he arrives in devastated New York City – gorgeous…
In a drunken rage, Robert Stack smashes a bottle of booze against the wall. Lauren Bacall, at her bedroom curtain, faints. Gunshots, death, tears. Written…