The 50s

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50’s Movies

Strange lady in town 1955

Greer Garson – Dana Andrews in Strange lady in town 1955 In 1880 New Mexico, a young female doctor from Boston arrives in Santa Fe to establish her new medical practice. Dr. Julia Garth is set to live with her…

Sophia Loren – William Holden

Sophia Loren-William Holden (The key) 1958 During World War II, successive tugboat British Captains sent on dangerous salvage missions pass-on the key to a home-port apartment, where a lonely Swiss-Italian young war-widow lives.

Gloria Pall in The Crimson Kimono (1959)

Gloria Pall in The Crimson Kimono (1959) Classic, hard-to-find Sam Fuller pic is intriguing noir about two detective partners, one caucasian and one Japanese, who try to solve a complicated murder case. Unfortunately, trouble arises when along the way, both…

Gene Tierney in The Egyptian (1954)

Gene Tierney in The Egyptian (1954) In ancient Egypt, a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaoh’s court where he witnesses palace intrigues and learns dangerous royal secrets.

Pal Joey (1957)

Kim Novak as Linda English Pal Joey (1957) Joey Evans’ a charming, handsome, funny, talented a-1st class, A-N°.1… heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl (“she used to be ‘Vera…with the vanishing veils’”) and now is the rich widow,…

The Naked Jungle (1954)

Eleanor Parker in The Naked Jungle (1954) It’s 1901. At 19, tough, stubborn Christopher Leiningen came to South America and built levees to claim thousands of acres of Rio Negro river land for a chocolate plantation. Now 34, with no…

HE LONG HOT SUMMER (1958)

Lee Remick in THE LONG HOT SUMMER (1958) Sixty-one year old widower Will Varner (Orson Welles), in ill health, owns many businesses and property in Frenchman’s Bend, Mississippi, including a plantation. To him, his children are a disappointment, who he…

Mitzi Gaynor-Donald O´ Connor Anything goes 1956

Mitzi Gaynor-Donald O´ Connor Anything goes 1956 Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each discovers the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role…