The 50s

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1959

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…

Henry Fonda in “The Wrong Man” 1959

Henry Fonda in “The Wrong Man”. 1959 Alfred Hitchcock in the background. Christopher Emanuel Balestrero, “Manny” to his friends, is a string bassist, a devoted husband and father, and a practicing Catholic. His eighty-five dollar a week gig playing in…

GUNS, GIRLS, & GANGSTERS (1959)

MAMIE VAN DOREN in GUNS, GIRLS, & GANGSTERS (1959) Chuck Wheeler gets out of the penitentiary and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club owner Joe Darren…

Some Like It Hot, 1959

Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis photographed by Richard Miller on the set of Some Like It Hot, 1959.

The mouse that roared – 1959

David Kossoff – Jean Seberg (The mouse that roared) 1959 An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don’t go according to plan.