The 50s

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Sophia Loren – William Holden

Sophia Loren-William Holden (The key) 1958 During World War II, successive tugboat British Captains sent on dangerous salvage missions pass-on the key to a home-port apartment, where a lonely Swiss-Italian young war-widow lives.

Huk! – 1956

George Montgomery – Mona Freeman (Huk!) 1956 After 14 years in the United States, Greg Dickson returns to the Philippines where he was raised, with the purpose of selling his father’s estate and returning to the states. Boyhood friend Bart…

The wings of eagles – 1957

John Wayne – Maureen O´Hara U.S. Navy pilot Frank ‘Spig’ Wead is a fun-loving and rowdy adventurer, but also a fierce proponent of Naval aviation. His dedication to the promotion of the Navy’s flying program is so intense that his…

Alec Guinness in THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)

Alec Guinness in THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957) British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring…

Anne Francis (Don´t go near the water) 1957

Anne Francis (Don´t go near the water) 1957 On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy’s P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Lt. Max Siegal is the Second in command to a clueless Commanding…

Gina Lollobrigida in Solomon and Sheba (1959)

Gina Lollobrigida in Solomon and Sheba (1959) Shortly before his death in ancient Israel King David has a vision from God telling him that his younger son Solomon should succeed him as king. His other son Adonijah is unhappy and…

Gina Lollobrigida in Solomon and Sheba (1959)

Gina Lollobrigida in Solomon and Sheba (1959) After becoming king of ancient Israel, Solomon faces threats coming from his jealous dispossessed brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharaoh and the scheming Queen of Sheba.