The seven-year-old son of leading nuclear physicist Frank Addison (Gene Barry in his big-screen debut) from Los Alamos, New Mexico (the “Atomic City” of the…
Browsing: Movies – 1950s
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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 barely a competent example of low-budget 1950s sci-fi, this poverty-row cheapie, directed by Nathan Hertz (better known as Nathan Juran), has become a…
A group of scientists gather on a deserted Pacific island to study the effects of nuclear fallout. The group is uneasy since a similar group…
In a Florida community, a local trapper sees a couple of giant monsters in the swamp, but nobody believes him. Later, general store owner Dave…
Eccentric 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”…
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…
This witty and heart-warming Technicolor comedy was based on the phenomenally successful novel and Broadway and London plays concerning a batty Bohemian who, following the…
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…
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 most…
This 1957 Ealing Studios comedy revolved around William Horatio Ambrose (Alec Guinness), who desperately wanted to live up to his proud family naval tradition. But Ambrose…
There’s nothing like an old dark house for raising the goose pimples. If it happens to be haunted by a killer who calls himself “The…
In 1950, at the onset of the Korean War, the US Marines land on an enemy-controlled beach. Among the American units is a platoon commanded…
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…