1950s

  • Muriel Box – The Truth About Women (1957)

    1951-1960ComedyDramaMuriel BoxUSA

    Plot ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
    In comfortable dotage, baronet Humphery Tavistock (Laurence Harvey) recalls a lifetime of romantic entanglements to his wide-eyed son-in-law. Tavistock has come to the conclusion that women are a riddle wrapped in a mystery surrounded by an enigma, and his reminiscences bear this out. Among the baronet’s many amours are a suffragette, a harem girl, the wife of a diplomat who “demands satisfaction”, an American heiress, a bohemian artist and an army nurse.Read More »

  • Tony Thompson – Any Man’s Kingdom (1956)

    1951-1960DocumentaryShort FilmTony ThompsonUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.Read More »

  • Jean Grémillon – L’Étrange Madame X AKA Strange Madame X (1951)

    Jean Grémillon1951-1960DramaFranceRomance

    Synopsis:
    Étienne, a modest carpenter, believes he has found the perfect partner in Irène, a beautiful young woman who appears to be devoted to him. But Irène is not the simple housemaid she pretends to be. In truth, she is the wife of a wealthy man, living in a grand house where she plays hostess at her frequent soirées to the cream of Parisian society. Irène is content with her double life until the day she discovers she is pregnant with Étienne’s child. After the baby is born, Irène promises to marry Étienne, without telling him that she must first persuade her present husband to agree to a divorce. Étienne’s hopes for future happiness are dashed when the business he attempts to set up fails and his child falls dangerously ill. The final blow comes when he visits Irène at the house where she claims to work and discovers the truth that she has long concealed from him…
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  • Yakov Bazelyan & Sergei Parajanov – Andriesh (1954)

    1951-1960AdventureFantasySergei ParajanovUSSRYakov Bazelyan

    A major foreshadowing of Paradjanov’s later work, the visually prodigious Andriesh is an entertaining tale about a young shepherd who is given a magic shawm (a flutelike instrument) to help him conquer his foes. With its flying sheep, evil wizards, and storm demons—all captured in the gloriously artifical palette of fifties Soviet color stock—Andriesh has the kind of eye-popping, whirlwind weirdness of Paradjanov’s last films, Suram Fortress and Ashik Kerib.Read More »

  • Hugo Fregonese – One Way Street (1950)

    1941-1950CrimeFilm NoirHugo FregoneseUSA

    PLOT: After stealing a gangster’s money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.Read More »

  • David Lean – The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

    1951-1960David LeanDramaUSAWar

    Synopsis :
    After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men’s construction of a railway bridge for their captors – while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. (imdb)Read More »

  • Krsto Skanata – U senci magije (1955)

    1951-1960DocumentaryKrsto SkanataYugoslavia

    Quote:
    Krsto Skanata approached his subjects in the style of direct cinema. He tried to follow the path of the truth and make films that would reveal the essence of the problem. At the same time, he was smart enough to nuance his approach in such a way that censors would accept and approve the film. One of his first films, In the Shadow of Magic/U senci magije (1955), uncovers the deep backwardness in socialist Yugoslavia. His film First Case-a Man/Prvi padez-covek (1964) addresses the human dignity of a miner who loses his arm and has to struggle on his own. Soldier, At Ease!/Ratnice, voljno! (1966) focuses on the tragedy of a soldier who fought in the war and believed in a certain ideology that he later realised was false.Read More »

  • Kon Ichikawa – Seishun kaidan AKA Ghost Story of Youth (1955) (HD)

    1951-1960AsianDramaJapanKon Ichikawa

    青春とは、怪談である!芦川いづみの記念すべき「日活入社第一回作品」。獅子文六の評判小説を才匠市川崑が描く青春波乱のメロドラマ。バレリーナの千春と、徹底的な合理主義者で幼馴染の慎一。いずれは結婚を考えている二人の前に、船越トミという女が現われた。Read More »

  • Lucas Demare – Los Isleros (1951)

    1951-1960ArgentinaDramaLucas Demare

    Leandro and the Carancha are inhabitants of the islands of the Parana Delta and agree a pair. They are rough persons done to the hard fight for the life in these places. They have a son who takes to the house a girl; the presence of her provokes the jealousies of the Carancha and his attitude leads dramatists moments.Read More »

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