The 50s

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50’s Movies

Debra Paget in Princess of the Nile (1954)

Debra Paget in Princess of the Nile (1954) 1249 A.D. Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alliance with Prince Haidi, son of the Caliph of Baghdad. She practices her intrigues both…

Allison Hayes (The disembodied) 1957

Allison Hayes (The disembodied) 1957 A photographer on an expedition in the jungle runs afoul of a voodoo cult.

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…

GLORIA GRAHAME in Odds Against Tomorrow. (1959)

GLORIA GRAHAME in Odds Against Tomorrow. (1959) Dave Burke looks to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earle Slater, a white ex-convict, and Johnny Ingram, a Black gambler. Both are reluctant, but Burke arranges for Ingram’s…

Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch (1955)

Marilyn Monroe in a publicity still for The Seven Year Itch (1955) With his family away for their annual summer holiday, New Yorker Richard Sherman decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor’s life – to eat and drink…

Naked alibi (1954)

Naked alibi (1954) Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the eyes of…

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958

Paul Newman & Elizabeth Taylor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958 The family of “Big Daddy” Pollitt (Burl Ives) convenes at his and Big Momma’s (Dame Judith Anderson’s). Among the attendees is alcoholic son, Brick (Paul Newman); an ex-football…

Kim Novak as Jeanne Eagles 1957

Kim Novak as Jeanne Eagles 1957 A largely fictionalized account of the career of actress Jeanne Eagels, whose fame was both on stage and on the screen in the 1910s and 1920s, is presented. After losing in a rigged carnival…