1951-1960

  • Terry Bishop – Cover Girl Killer (1959)

    1951-1960CrimeDramaTerry BishopUnited Kingdom

    A bikini-clad pin-up is found dead by the Serpentine in the same place, pose and get-up
    as when she appeared on the cover of “Wow!” magazine. When the police find the same
    fate befalling other girls featured on the front page they realise a highly intelligent
    madman is on the loose.Read More »

  • John Ford – Gideon’s Day AKA Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958)

    Drama1951-1960CrimeJohn FordUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    Bribery, robbery and an escaped homicidal patient. Just one day in the life of Chief Inspector Gideon of Scotland Yard.Read More »

  • Joris Ivens & Joop Huisken & Robert Ménégoz & Ruy Santos – Das Lied der Ströme AKA Song of the Rivers (1954)

    1951-1960DocumentaryGermanyJoop HuiskenJoris IvensPoliticsRobert MénégozRuy Santos

    Quote:
    “The Song of the Rivers, or Das Lied der Ströme, is a 1954 documentary production by the East Germany’s Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA). Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens was the leading director. The sprawling film celebrates international workers movements along six major rivers: the Volga, Mississippi, Ganges, Nile, Amazon and the Yangtze. Shot in many countries by different film crews, and later edited by Ivens, Song of the Rivers begins with a lyrical montage of landscapes and laborers and proceeds to glorify labor and modern industrial machinery. The musical score is by Dmitri Shostakovich, with lyrics written by Berthold Brecht, and songs performed by German communism’s star Ernst Busch and famous American actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson who also narrates. Song of the Rivers is an ode to international solidarity.”Read More »

  • Maria Plyta – I lykaina aka The She-Wolf (1951)

    1951-1960DramaGreeceMaria PlytaRomance

    Wanting to have nothing to do with the feud that has decimated not only his family but also his neighbours’, too, an irenic teacher faces his childhood sweetheart who yearns to kill him. Can the feared she-wolf see the error of her ways?Read More »

  • Ana Mariscal – Segundo López, aventurero urbano (1953)

    1951-1960Ana MariscalComedyDramaSpain

    Quote:
    An honest man from the provinces arrives in Madrid for a living, with no more baggage than a little money and plainness. He befriends a street urchin, “The Chirri”, and both live countless urban adventures.Read More »

  • Terence Fisher – Home to Danger (1951)

    1951-1960CrimeMysteryTerence FisherUSA

    Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
    Rona Anderson plays a wealthy young Englishwoman, long estranged from her father. She returns home when papa dies, reluctantly agreeing to listen to the will reading. It soon becomes clear that some unknown party is out to bump off Anderson as well–though she is the only person who stands to benefit from her father’s demise. Director Terence Fisher, later a foremost purveyor of horror at Hanner Films, deftly handles shocks of a more mundane sort herein. Home to Danger is just long enough at 66 minutes.Read More »

  • Richard Carlson – The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958)

    1951-1960Richard CarlsonUSAWestern

    Plot:
    Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led by Lt. Hemp Brown. Givens kills a civilian woman and all the soldiers, leaving Brown alive to face a military tribunal in which he is branded a coward, stripped of all insignia and drummed out of the army. Brown sets out to track down Givens in an effort to clear his name.
    Meets and gets help from a showgirl (Beverly Garland) in tracking down the killer (John Larch).Read More »

  • Kurt Neumann – The Fly (1958)

    1951-1960HorrorKurt NeumannSci-FiUSA

    Quote:
    After her husband Andre Delambre is crushed to death in a mechanical press, his wife recounts to his brother Francois Delambre and police Inspector Charas the events of the previous few months. They were very much in love and with their little boy, a very happy family. Andre was experimenting with teleportation – transporting objects from one point to another by breaking the object down to the atomic level and then reassembling it in a receiver a distance away. The system had some glitches – it seemed to work with inanimate object but his cat disappeared when he tried teleporting it. He thinks he’s solved all of the problems with his invention and decides to try and teleport himself. When a fly enters the teleportation device with him, disaster strikes.Read More »

  • Various – O. Henry’s Full House (1952)

    Drama1951-1960ComedyMarilyn MonroeUSAVarious

    Synopsis:
    John Steinbeck introduces five of O. Henry’s most popular short stores in this anthology film. In “The Cop and the Anthem” a homeless alcoholic is increasingly frustrated in numerous attempts to get arrested and jailed for 90 days in a warm cell rather than face the rigors of a New York winter. In “The Clarion Call” a NYPD detective has a crisis of conscience when he is torn between his duty to arrest a childhood friend for a murder only he knows he committed and the debt of honor he still owes to him. In “The Last Leaf” a naive young girl is stricken with pneumonia after being seduced and jilted by venal actor. Read More »

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