The 50s

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50’s Movies

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 Shaggy Dog (1959)

Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an act of bravery.

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Julie Adams on the set of Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) A scientific expedition searching for fossils along the Amazon River discovers a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. The explorers capture the mysterious creature, but it breaks…

Bermuda Affair 1956

Gary Merrill – Kim Hunter Bermuda affair 1956 Chuck Walters and Bob Scoffield are old war buddies who run a cargo airplane service in Bermuda. Walters is happily married to Chris while Scoffield chases after every woman who looks his…

Some came running 1958

Frank Sinatra – Dean Martin – Shirley MacLaine in Some came running 1958 In the post-war, the alcoholic and bitter veteran military and former writer Dave Hirsch returns from Chicago to his hometown Parkman, Indiana. He is followed by Ginnie…

Brad Dexter – Mamie Van Doren in Vice raid 1959

Brad Dexter – Mamie Van Doren in Vice raid 1959 The bosses of the prostitution racket have one of their prostitutes go to New York City to entrap a police officer and get him thrown off the force. She does…

Cleo Moore in Women’s Prison (1955)

Cleo Moore in Women’s Prison (1955) Life at a 1950s women’s maximum security prison where the warden and the guards are as brutal as the inmates.

Anthony Quinn – Carolyn Jones (Last train from Gun Hill) 1959

Anthony Quinn – Carolyn Jones (Last train from Gun Hill) 1959 The wife of marshal Matt Morgan is raped and murdered. The killers leave behind a distinctive saddle, that Morgan recognizes as belonging to his old friend Craig Belden, now…