Despite the title, this is a POW picture rather than a war picture. The actual naval battle is merely tacked on to the final 5…
Browsing: Movies – 1950s
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In the autumn of 1939, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee – the pride of the German Navy – commands the Atlantic, preying on…
Captain Russ Edwards (Sterling Hayden), the commander of the K-59 Helicopter Element in Korea, dispatches former fighter pilot Lieutenant Pete Stacey (Arthur Franz) to rescue…
This World War II story centres on a handful of US Marines on a mission in the jungle of a South Pacific island. American forces…
Near the Arctic Circle, an atomic bomb is detonated. This fearsome experiment disturbs the sleep of a giant Rhedosaurus encased in ice for more than…
Set in Mexico, The Beast of Hollow Mountain is for the most part the story of Texan cattle rancher Jimmy Ryan (Guy Madison) and his…
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…
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…
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…
Newspaper photojournalist Audrey Ames (Peggie Castle) stumbles upon the town of Ludlow in Illinois, which has been inexplicably destroyed with all its population missing presumed…
The monster with the biblical name took the form of a Palaeosaurus as tall as Big Ben and nearly 200 ft long – and not…
Based on John Van Druten’s hit play, this adroit romantic comedy stars Kim Novak as Gil Holroyd – a witch living in modern Manhattan. Gil wants…
This rollicking British comedy – filmed at Shepperton Studios – is based on Ronald Searle’s cartoons of the terrifying St Trinian’s School for Girls, populated…
This vast $15 million epic was the most expensive film ever made at the time. Shot in 70mm, the script was based on a 19th-century…
Clark Gable stars in a wartime espionage drama which has as many thrills as surprises. It is based on the controversy which still rages about…
Fresh out of college, John Randall (William Reynolds) tries to persuade his father – the owner of a conservative record company – into releasing rock…
William Wyler’s last Western was filmed on a grand scale, in widescreen and almost three hours long. The film took five months to shoot and cost…
Glenn Ford stars as Dave Bannion, a cop who ditches his badge in order to take down a mob boss when his wife (Jocelyn Brando)…
An intelligent, haunting film full of wonderful performances, particularly from Jack Palance (never better) and Rod Steiger as, respectively, the successful movie star Charlie Castle,…
Alan Ladd stars as Kansas soldier-turned-cattle driver Chad Morgan, battling the elements and corrupt cattle buyers to build a railroad spur to the Rio Grande…