The 50s

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River of no return 1954

Marilyn Monroe – Rory Calhoun (River of no return) 1954 The titular river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his young son, and an ambitious saloon singer. In order to survive, each must be purged of anger, and each…

Touch of Evil (1958)

Janet Leigh – Touch of Evil (1958) Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel ‘Mike’ Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He’s killed…

ZARAK 1956

Anita Ekberg On the mountainous frontier between British India and Afghanistan, circa 1860s, Zarak Khan kisses Salma, the youngest wife of his father, Haji Khan. Outraged, his father orders Zarak to be flogged to death but spares his life at…

The long hot summer – 1958

Joanne Woodward – Lee Remick (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,…

Kim Novak – Betty Field in “Picnic” 1956

Kim Novak – Betty Field in “Picnic” 1956 The morning of a small town Labor Day picnic, a drifter (Hal Carter) blows into town to visit an old fraternity buddy (Alan Benson) who also happens to be the son of…

Voodoo Woman 1957

Deep in the jungles a mad scientist is using the natives’ voodoo for his experiments to create an indestructible being to serve his will. When a party of gold seekers stumbles upon his village, the scientist realizes that Marilyn the…

Jack Lemmon – Betsy Palmer in Mister Roberts 1955

Jack Lemmon – Betsy Palmer in Mister Roberts 1955 Mister Roberts is aboard a US cargo ship, working in the Pacific during the Second World War. He’d do anything to leave the quiet of the ship to join in the…