The Crimson Pirate
As a spiritual sequel to the tremendous success of The Flame And The Arrow (1950) Burt Lancaster made The Crimson Pirate (1952). Robert Siodmak directs the film, re-teaming with Lancaster… Read more »
Tag: 1950s
High Society
Before working at MGM, beginning in 1943, Charles Walters was one of the leading choreographers on Broadway. He had a good working relationship with Cole Porter which made him a… Read more »
Valkoinen peura
Erik Blomberg was a producer, a cinematographer and editor for years before he ever wrote and directed Valkoinen peura (1953). Blomberg knew the filmmaking craft, backwards and forwards, and was… Read more »
Thunder On The Hill
In Douglas Sirk’s melodramatic thriller Thunder On The Hill (1951) Godliness and faith are entirely the providence of women. What’s remarkably proto-feminist is that this enclave of the faithful is… Read more »
La Momia Azteca
Half a millennia ago, an Aztec maiden (Rosa Arenas) and a fierce warrior are executed for forsaking the laws of their gods. Then, in the present, Dr. Almada (Ramón Gay)… Read more »
Ikiru
Ikiru (1952) tells the story of an older sararīman named Kani Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) who is diagnosed with stomach cancer, prompting the bureaucrat to actually “live”. With Ikiru Akira Kurosawa… Read more »
Das Feuerzeug
Network’s Tales From Europe collection consists of a number of double-feature, two disc DVD releases of DEFA children’s films made during the fifties. The collection gets its name from a… Read more »
The Vikings
Violence is everywhere in Richard Fleischer’s film The Vikings (1958). For men, one could be slain any minute by a sword or an axe and women face sexual assault at… Read more »
Touch Of Evil
Orson Welles presents himself as an interesting phenomenon of studio era Hollywood. His aggressive and independent methods as a filmmaker are what both brought him his early success and later… Read more »
Show Boat
Born on September 9th, 1894, Arthur Freed would be destined to lead one of the most remarkable lives in Hollywood history. For a decade spanning 1929 to 1939, Freed worked… Read more »
