Dangerous When Wet
Charles Walters re-teamed with Esther Williams after Texas Carnival (1951) for MGM’s fanciful retelling of Dorothy Kingsley’s swimming of the English Channel Dangerous When Wet (1953). By this time in… Read more »
Tag: 1950s
Invasion Of The Saucer Men
Invasion Of The Saucer Men (1957) is a youth oriented science fiction thriller produced by American International Pictures. The low budget of the film as well as its hokey dialogue… Read more »
Hard, Fast & Beautiful
Ida Lupino’s film Hard, Fast & Beautiful (1951) was her third outing in the director’s chair. The film was produced by Lupino’s production company The Filmmakers and distributed by RKO… Read more »
Futures vedettes
Futures vedettes (1955) is a relatively late film from the french auteur Marc Allégret. Allégret, best known today for his films Fanny (1932) and Zouzou (1934), co-scripted Futures vedettes with… Read more »
Battle In Outer Space
Ishirō Honda’s film Battle In Outer Space (1959) is a kind of conceptual sequel to his earlier film The Mysterians (1957). Both films were produced by Toho and feature themes… Read more »
Santa Claus
In René Cardona’s beloved holiday film Santa Claus (1959) the title character (José Elías Moreno) resides in a castle of silver that orbits the earth above the North Pole. Santa… Read more »
Run Silent, Run Deep
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) tells the story of the obsessive Captain, Commander Richardson (Clark Gable), who assumes command of Lt. Bledsoe’s (Burt Lancaster) submarine to exact revenge on a… Read more »
Trick Or Treat
Walt Disney’s production Trick Or Treat (1952) has become the stuff of gifs and memes which litter social media every Halloween. Although the film debuted in the fifties its longevity… Read more »
A Bucket Of Blood
Dick Miller plays Walter Paisley; a bus boy, a square, a doofus and a homicidal maniac. After years of working at the trendy Beatnik cafe The Yellow Door Walter accidentally… Read more »
Bell, Book & Candle
When Shep Henderson (James Stewart) takes his fiancée Merle (Janice Rule) to join his new neighbor Gil Holroyd (Kim Novak) and her aunt Queenie (Elsa Lanchester) at the Zodiac Club… Read more »
