#1950smovie — Public Fediverse posts

Hold Back Tomorrow (1955), a film noir about a man about to be hanged. He makes a last request - a woman for the night. He gets down-on-her-luck whore Dora (Cleo Moore). Cleo Moore is superb. Great movie. Somehow it got past the Hays Code.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/09/hold-back-tomorrow-1955.html

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Outside the Wall (1950) is a solid film noir. Richard Basehart is a man who's spent 15 years in prison and finds life on the outside scary. He has trouble with dames and a chance encounter from the past drags him into noir nightmare world.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/09/outside-wall-1950.html

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #crimemovie #filmnoir #crimemovies #RichardBasehart

Jacques Tourneur's Anne of the Indies (1951) is a pirate adventure movie about a lady pirate. She’s brave, sexy, daring and sympathetic apart from being a mass murderess. Surprisingly nuanced with a complex protagonist. Great stuff.

My reviews: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/08/anne-of-indies-1951.html

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Jacques Tourneur's Anne of the Indies (1951) is a pirate adventure movie about a lady pirate. She’s brave, sexy, daring and sympathetic apart from being a mass murderess. Surprisingly nuanced with a complex protagonist. Great stuff.

My reviews: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/08/anne-of-indies-1951.html

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Jacques Tourneur's Anne of the Indies (1951) is a pirate adventure movie about a lady pirate. She’s brave, sexy, daring and sympathetic apart from being a mass murderess. Surprisingly nuanced with a complex protagonist. Great stuff.

My reviews: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/08/anne-of-indies-1951.html

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #pirates #piratemovie #piratemovies #ladypirates #AnneBonny #JacquesTourneur #swashbuckler #swashbucklers #swashbucklingadventure #adventuremovies #LouisJourdan #DebraPaget

Jacques Tourneur's Anne of the Indies (1951) is a pirate adventure movie about a lady pirate. She’s brave, sexy, daring and sympathetic apart from being a mass murderess. Surprisingly nuanced with a complex protagonist. Great stuff.

My reviews: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/08/anne-of-indies-1951.html

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #pirates #piratemovie #piratemovies #ladypirates #AnneBonny #JacquesTourneur #swashbuckler #swashbucklers #swashbucklingadventure #adventuremovies #LouisJourdan #DebraPaget

Jacques Tourneur's Anne of the Indies (1951) is a pirate adventure movie about a lady pirate. She’s brave, sexy, daring and sympathetic apart from being a mass murderess. Surprisingly nuanced with a complex protagonist. Great stuff.

My reviews: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/08/anne-of-indies-1951.html

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #pirates #piratemovie #piratemovies #ladypirates #AnneBonny #JacquesTourneur #swashbuckler #swashbucklers #swashbucklingadventure #adventuremovies #LouisJourdan #DebraPaget

Had it not been for the Production Code I, the Jury (1953) would have been the best-ever Mickey Spillane film adaptation. It's still pretty good - Peggie Castle sizzles, John Alton’s cinematography is superb. See it.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/i-jury-1953.html

#MickeySpillane #MikeHammer #JohnAlton #PeggieCastle #50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #filmnoir

The Mole People is a 1956 scifi B-movie. Archaeologists discover a lost city, still stuck in the Sumerian era, deep beneath the Earth. Naturally there's a pretty slave girl. Some decent effects, all very cheap but a good basic idea. Enjoyable.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-mole-people-1956.html

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André De Toth's Day of the Outlaw (1959), a fine intelligent complex 50s western. Starts as a typical "ranchers against farmers" story with a romantic triangle and becomes something quite different. Fine performance by Tina Louise.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/day-of-outlaw-1959.html

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André De Toth's Day of the Outlaw (1959), a fine intelligent complex 50s western. Starts as a typical "ranchers against farmers" story with a romantic triangle and becomes something quite different. Fine performance by Tina Louise.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/day-of-outlaw-1959.html

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André De Toth's Day of the Outlaw (1959), a fine intelligent complex 50s western. Starts as a typical "ranchers against farmers" story with a romantic triangle and becomes something quite different. Fine performance by Tina Louise.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/day-of-outlaw-1959.html

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #westerns #AndreDeToth #BurlIves #RobertRyan #TinaLouise

André De Toth's Day of the Outlaw (1959), a fine intelligent complex 50s western. Starts as a typical "ranchers against farmers" story with a romantic triangle and becomes something quite different. Fine performance by Tina Louise.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/day-of-outlaw-1959.html

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #westerns #AndreDeToth #BurlIves #RobertRyan #TinaLouise

André De Toth's Day of the Outlaw (1959), a fine intelligent complex 50s western. Starts as a typical "ranchers against farmers" story with a romantic triangle and becomes something quite different. Fine performance by Tina Louise.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/day-of-outlaw-1959.html

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #westerns #AndreDeToth #BurlIves #RobertRyan #TinaLouise

Victor Mature, Jane Russell and Vincent Price star in the slightly noir-tinged 1952 crime/romance melodrama The Las Vegas Story (1952). Great use of the Vegas setting, three dazzling lead performances, lots of twisted romance. Very enjoyable.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-las-vegas-story-1952.html

#VictorMature #JaneRussell #VincentPrice #50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #filmnoir

Pickup Alley is a 1957 British crime thriller about a narcotics agent, directed by John Gilling. Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg and Trevor Howard are all excellent. Solidly plotted and well-crafted.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/05/pickup-alley-1957.html

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #bmovie #bmovies #filmnoir #JohnGilling #VictorMature #AnitaEkberg #TrevorHoward

Cop Hater is a 1958 B-movie police procedural based on an Ed McBain 87th Precinct novel. Cops are getting gunned down. Not a bad movie. Not really film noir but does have a tough seedy gritty sweaty and at times sleazy edge to it.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/05/cop-hater-1958.html

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Wrong Number is a 1959 British heist thriller involving train and armoured car robberies and a beautiful, glamorous, sexy and dangerous woman. And of course phone calls. A neat plot, terrific acting, well executed heist sequences. Good stuff.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2019/05/wrong-number-1959.html

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Vice Raid (1959) is a crime potboiler which tries to be as lurid as possible given the constraints of the 50s. The reason to see it is Mamie van Doren playing a bad girl with the body of a goddess and the morals of an alley cat. She's fabulous.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2020/03/vice-raid-1959.html

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Gidget (1959), the first surfer girl movie. Sandra Dee is amazingly charming. Lightweight amusing romantic fun that takes its heroine's struggles with growing up quite seriously. But the ending is - well let's just say I hated the ending.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/12/gidget-1959.html

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The Hangman (1959) is a slightly odd but very good psychological western with Robert Taylor as a Deputy Marshal who has to bring in a wanted man but he has no idea what the fugitive looks like. Tina Louise could identify the man, but will she?

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-hangman-1959.html

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #classicmovie #classicmovie #goldenagehollywood #westerns #MichaelCurtiz #RobertTaylor #TinaLouise

The Hangman (1959) is a slightly odd but very good psychological western with Robert Taylor as a Deputy Marshal who has to bring in a wanted man but he has no idea what the fugitive looks like. Tina Louise could identify the man, but will she?

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-hangman-1959.html

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #classicmovie #classicmovie #goldenagehollywood #westerns #MichaelCurtiz #RobertTaylor #TinaLouise

The Hangman (1959) is a slightly odd but very good psychological western with Robert Taylor as a Deputy Marshal who has to bring in a wanted man but he has no idea what the fugitive looks like. Tina Louise could identify the man, but will she?

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-hangman-1959.html

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #classicmovie #classicmovie #goldenagehollywood #westerns #MichaelCurtiz #RobertTaylor #TinaLouise

The Hangman (1959) is a slightly odd but very good psychological western with Robert Taylor as a Deputy Marshal who has to bring in a wanted man but he has no idea what the fugitive looks like. Tina Louise could identify the man, but will she?

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-hangman-1959.html

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #classicmovie #classicmovie #goldenagehollywood #westerns #MichaelCurtiz #RobertTaylor #TinaLouise

The Hangman (1959) is a slightly odd but very good psychological western with Robert Taylor as a Deputy Marshal who has to bring in a wanted man but he has no idea what the fugitive looks like. Tina Louise could identify the man, but will she?

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-hangman-1959.html

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#Noirvember #filmnoir Assassin for Hire (1951) is a low-budget British crime thriller with a definite film noir flavour. Sydney Tafler is superb as a hitman with some depth and the plot has some nasty twists. An excellent well-crafted B noir.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2016/09/assassin-for-hire-1951.html

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Une Parisienne (1957), an early and incredibly charming Brigitte Bardot romantic comedy. She plays a girl who is really very sweet but a bit naughty in an innocent kind of way. A frothy lightweight romantic sex comedy with Bardot at her most adorable.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2020/03/une-parisienne-1957.html

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Terence Fisher's Kill Me Tomorrow (1957), an OK cheap crime B-movie about a hardbitten reporter who's wrecked his career with booze and self-pity. Now he has to convince the cops that he's a murderer. Lois Maxwell plays a feisty girl reporter.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/09/kill-me-tomorrow-1957.html

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Fritz Lang's Rancho Notorious (1952) belongs to the strange wondrous overheated western melodrama sub-genre. An odd very stylised western that makes no concessions to realism. In its own way as bizarre and unusual as Forty Guns. I loved it.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/rancho-notorious-1952.html

#classicmovie #classicmovies #goldenagehollywood #1950smovie #1950smovies #western #westerns #FritzLang #MarleneDietrich

Wrong Number (1959) is a 1959 British heist thriller. It has a neat little plot, terrific acting and just the right amount of humour. The vital clue is a phone call, a wrong number that might be unlucky for the thieves. A good solid B-movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2019/05/wrong-number-1959.html

#classicmovie #classicmovies #britishcinema #britishmovie #britishmovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #50smovie #50smovies #bmovie #bmovies

Audie Murphy made some great westerns. The Duel at Silver Creek (1952) is not one of them. It does however look great and is fun in a movie junk food sort of way. Don Siegel directed so there's plenty of fine action. I enjoyed it.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-duel-at-silver-creek-1952.html

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Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston star in Anthony Mann's western The Furies (1950), a slightly noirish nicely overheated psycho-sexual-emotional melodrama. Not a perfect film but fascinating and hugely enjoyable with Stanwyck and Huston in top form.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-furies-1950.html

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Secret of the Incas is a 1954 adventure movie starring Charlton Heston. It's like a grown-up version of Raiders of the Lost Ark and it’s much more cynical and much more honest about the motivations of treasure-hunters. Quite a good movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/07/secret-of-incas-1954.html

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Watched Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951) yet again and I'm still impressed by its technical perfection. And I'm noticing the subtle and disturbing touches of moral ambiguity. A great movie and an interesting one.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/07/strangers-on-train-1951-hitchcock.html

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The Asphalt Jungle (1950), John Huston’s faithful and excellent adaptation of W.R. Burnett’s great novel. An excellent film noir about a heist. Fine performance by Sterling Hayden. Marilyn Monroe has a bit part.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-asphalt-jungle-1950.html

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Yankee Buccaneer (1952), an enjoyable programmer if you love pirate movies. A US Navy officer pretends to be a pirate. Shot on the same sets as the Errol Flynn pirate film Against All Flags.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2017/10/yankee-buccaneer-1952.html.

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Joseph H. Lewis's The Big Combo (1955) is a fine film noir about a cop obsessed with nailing a gangster. Lewis was a visually imaginative director but it's John Alton's superb cinematography that makes it a must-see noir.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-big-combo-1955.html

#classicmovies #classicmovie #filmnoir #1950smovie #50smovie #1950smovies #50smovies #goldenagehollywood #JosephHLewis #JohnAlton

Hannibal (1959), a late Edgar G. Ulmer film. Surprisingly, a lavish costume epic with no less than 12,000 extras in the battle scenes. A good movie but could have been a great one if the studio had allowed Ulmer to make it the way he wanted to.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2015/09/hannibal-1959.html

#classicmovies #classicmovie #1950smovie #cultmovies #cultmovie #VictorMature #Hannibal #EdgarGUlmer

Vincente Minnelli’s The Band Wagon (1953), with breathtaking dancing by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in glorious Technicolor.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-band-wagon-1953.html

#classicmovies #classicmovie #1950smovie #goldenagehollywood #musicals #hollywoodmusicals #Vincente Minnelli #FredAstaire #CydCharisse

Vincente Minnelli’s The Band Wagon (1953), with breathtaking dancing by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in glorious Technicolor.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-band-wagon-1953.html

#classicmovies #classicmovie #1950smovie #goldenagehollywood #musicals #hollywoodmusicals #Vincente Minnelli #FredAstaire #CydCharisse

Vincente Minnelli’s The Band Wagon (1953), with breathtaking dancing by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in glorious Technicolor.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-band-wagon-1953.html

#classicmovies #classicmovie #1950smovie #goldenagehollywood #musicals #hollywoodmusicals #Vincente Minnelli #FredAstaire #CydCharisse

Vincente Minnelli’s The Band Wagon (1953), with breathtaking dancing by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in glorious Technicolor.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-band-wagon-1953.html

#classicmovies #classicmovie #1950smovie #goldenagehollywood #musicals #hollywoodmusicals #Vincente Minnelli #FredAstaire #CydCharisse

Ride Clear of Diablo (1954) is a fairly standard revenge western but it's well-crafted and worth seeing for the fine performances by Audie Murphy and Dan Duryea as enemies who become unlikely allies. It did need a more memorable villain.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/04/ride-clear-of-diablo-1954.html

#classicmovies #classicmovie #1950smovie #goldenagehollywood #westerns #AudieMurphy #DanDuryea

Sissi (1955), the most famous and most successful entry in the German heimatfilm genre. If you’re in the mood for a lightweight feelgood fluffy romance with a fairytale vibe then this is just what you’re looking for.

It made Romy Schneider a star and she's adorable.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/03/sissi-1955.html

#heimatfilm #classicmovies #classicmovie #1950smovie #germancinema #germanmovie
#germanmovies #RomanceMovies #RomanceMovie #romance #fairytalemovie #fairytalemovies #RomySchneider

Jacques Tourneur’s Timbuktu is an old-fashioned Foreign Legion adventure movie, in fact even a little old-fashioned by the standards of 1958. That’s probably why I liked it so much. As a bonus it stars Victor Mature and Yvonne de Carlo.

Thoroughly enjoyable.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2015/06/timbuktu-1958.html

#classicmovies #classicmovie #goldenagehollywood #1950smovie #adventuremovie #adventuremovies #adventure #JacquesTourneur #VictorMature #YvonnedeCarlo

Hangman’s Knot, a 1952 western with Randolph Scott. His gang has pulled off a daring robbery but things are not how they seem. Scott is great, with a touch of moral ambiguity. Lee Marvin gives a trademark psychotic performance.

A fine western.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/02/hangmans-knot-1952.html

#classicmovies #classicmovie #1950smovie #goldenagehollywood #westerns #RandolphScott #LeeMarvin

3:10 to Yuma (1957), directed by Delmer Daves. One of the great westerns. A deceptively simple story of a reluctant deputy trying to get an outlaw onto a train that will take him to jail.

Based on an equally good Elmore Leonard story. Glenn Ford and Van Heflin are both superb.

Wonderfully stark b&w cinematography.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/02/310-to-yuma-1957.html

#DelmerDaves #GlennFord #VanHeflin #ElmoreLeonard #classicmovies #classicmovie #1950smovie #goldenagehollywood #westerns

The Man from the Alamo is a 1953 Budd Boetticher western with Glenn Ford as a man with a reputation for cowardice hanging over his head, a reputation he feels (with some justification) is undeserved.

An intelligent grown-up western and an exciting action-packed movie with fine large-scale action sequences.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-man-from-alamo-1953.html

#classicmovies #classicmovie #1950smovie #goldenagehollywood #westerns #GlennFord #BuddBoetticher #theAlamo

All That Heaven Allows (1955), a glorious melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk and produced by Ross Hunter. Middle-aged widow Jane Wyman falls in love with her gardener (Rock Hudson).

Melodrama has always been despised by critics but I enjoy it, and this one has class.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2010/04/all-that-heaven-allows-1955.html

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The Nevadan (1950) is a very routine western with a predictable plot.

It's redeemed to some extent by fine performances from Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone and George Macready and by fine action sequences at the start and finish.

It's well-made and looks great, with some lovely location shooting.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-nevadan-1950.html

#classicmovies #classicmovie #westerns #1950smovie #goldenagehollywood #RandolphScott #DorothyMalone #GeorgeMacready