A lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation.Read More »
1950s
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Ingmar Bergman – Sommarlek AKA Summer Interlude (1951) (HD)
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Ingmar Bergman – Sommarnattens leende AKA Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) (HD)
1951-1960ComedyIngmar BergmanRomanceSwedenIn Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.Read More »
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Hal Walker – Road to Bali (1952)
1951-1960ComedyHal WalkerMusicalUSASynopsis:
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.Read More » -
Hugo Fregonese – Mark of the Renegade (1951)
1951-1960ActionAdventureHugo FregoneseUSAAMG Overview:
by Hal Erickson
MGM’s Ricardo Montalban and Cyd Charisse were loaned to Universal for the Technicolor period piece Mark of the Renegade. Set in 19th-century California, the film stars Montalban as Marcos, in league with a band of pirates. Marcos falls into the hands of Don Pedro Garcia (Gilbert Roland), a despot who hopes to become dictator of California. Planning to force the cooperation of benevolent politico Jose De Vasquez (Antonio Moreno), Garcia orders Marcos to court De Vasquez’ comely daughter Anita (Cyd Charisse). It soon develops that Marcos is not the criminal he appears to be, and that he is dedicated to the vanquishing of the evil Garcia. Somehow, Mark of the Renegade finds an excuse for Cyd Charisse to perform a bewitching dance number.Read More » -
Nathan Juran – 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
1951-1960HorrorNathan JuranSci-FiUSAA US rocket returning from Venus crash lands off the Italian coast, bringing back with it a strange creature that quickly begins to grow to terrifying proportions…
Clearly indebted to King Kong, and employing that film’s empathetic approach to its ‘monster’ (a trope that Harryhausen would continue to employ throughout his career), 20 Million Miles to Earth is a terrific slice of fifties sci-fi. It boasts some of Harryhausen’s finest work of the period, as well one of his most beloved and enduring creature creations.Read More »
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Fumio Kamei – Ikiteite yokatta AKA It Is Good to Live (1956)
Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtDocumentaryFumio KameiJapanShort FilmFrom Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
This is one of the first documentary films about the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It coldly records the lingering effects of the bomb on the victims decades later. In a succession of realistic, shocking sequences, their lives, difficulties, and camaraderie are examined. The very objectivity of incidents, scenes, and faces makes the film the more terrifying.Read More » -
Hiroshi Shimizu – Odoriko aka Dancing Girl (1957)
1951-1960AsianDramaHiroshi ShimizuJapanIn Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment and begins to stir things up with her riotousness.Read More »
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Andrzej Munk – Pamietniki chlopow AKA Peasant Diaries (1952)
Andrzej Munk1951-1960DocumentaryPolandShort FilmAbout the movie:
In 1952 Andrzej Munk made PAMIETNIKI CHLOPOW [PEASANT DIARIES], a film that was meant, to put it briefly, to show what people were told to believe about the wonderful lives that Polish peasants led in post-war Poland. In his book ” Moja filmoteka. Kino polskie” [My Film Archive. Polish Cinema] Aleksander Jackiewicz wrote that though he found the film to lack a hint of a shadow on the picture of those times to make it truly authentic, as clearly People’s Poland could not include peasants who were not successful, even so one could find in it “a tiny bit of authenticity that was absent from the works of other directors”.Read More » -
David Kramarsky & Roger Corman – The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)
1951-1960David KramarskyHorrorRoger CormanSci-FiUSAExtraterrestrial terror is keeping an eye out for human flesh in this horrifying tale of invasion! After a strange craft crash lands near a rancher’s home in the California desert, the rancher’s family believes the danger has passed. But when they are attacked by animals driven into a rage by the alien, they realize that something did survive the crash….and it’s hoping to take in its first meal on Earth….ranch style!Read More »