The 50s

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Man of the West 1958

Gary Cooper – Julie London “Man of the West” 1958 A reformed outlaw becomes stranded after an aborted train robbery with two other passengers and is forced to rejoin his old outlaw band.

Ava Gardner, Mogambo 1953

Ava Gardner, Mogambo 1953 Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley…

The Thing (1951)

The Thing (1951) Scientists at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally…

Invasion of The Saucer Men (1957)

Invasion of The Saucer Men (1957) Aliens equipped with venomous claws invade a small town but the town’s teenage population is mobilized to fight the menace.

How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)

Orson Bean, Tommy Noonan, and Sheree North in How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955) Song-and-dance girls Curly and Stormy Tornado hide out with the guys at Bristol College when they know they can identify the killer of a fellow…

The Narrow Margin 1952

Jacqueline White – Charles McGraw (The narrow margin) 1952 A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.

(Houdini) 1953

Tony Curtis – Janet Leigh (Houdini) 1953 From his beginnings as a “wildman” carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, the great Harry Houdini emerged as the world’s most captivating…

The girl most likely 1958

Kaye Ballard – Jane Powell (The girl most likely) 1958 Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live ‘the life’. Buzz, her boyfriend, however is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He…