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Thunder On The Hill (1951)

March 1, 2023 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

High castle intrigue

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1950s, 1951, ann blyth, claudette colbert, douglas sirk, melodrama, murder, mystery, philip friend, review, thunder on the hill

Summertime (1955)

December 16, 2022December 30, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Romance, brought to you by the Venice Tourism Board

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1950s, 1955, david lean, h.e. bates, italy, katharine hepburn, location movies, loneliness, review, romance, rossano brazzi, the comfort of strangers, tourism, venice

Forty Guns (1957)

November 23, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Big on sensation, scant on story

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1950s, 1957, barbara stanwyck, barry sullivan, feminism, forty guns, gene barry, review, robert dix, samuel fuller, western

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

June 4, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Sins of the flesh are sown in the mind

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1950s, 1959, hollywood history, homphobia, horror, incest, joseph l. mankiewicz, katharine hepburn, montgomery clift, suddenly last summer, Tennessee Williams

Terror In A Texas Town (1958)

January 18, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Sterling Hayden with a dubious Swedish accent, stolid Swedish values

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1950s, 1958, dalton trumbo, joseph h. lewis, nedrick young, ray rennahan, social values, sterling haydn, terror in a texas town, western

Not As A Stranger (1955)

December 1, 2021 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

A doctor with an unhealthy obsession

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1950s, 1955, drama, edna anhalt, edward anhalt, frank sinatra, gloria grahame, lee marvin, medicine, not as a stranger, olivia de havilland, robert mitchum, stanley donen

Seven Men From Now (1956)

September 10, 2021 Mikkel Frederiksen2 Comments

A western with a love triangle and Lee Marvin as a lip-licking trickster

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1950s, 1956, budd boeticher, gail russell, lee marvin, love triangle, randolph scott, the revengers, walter reed, western

Paths of Glory (1957)

December 6, 2020December 6, 2020 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

The Wire meets World War 1

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1917, 1950s, kirk douglas, politics, stanley kubrick, war, world war 1

Rancho Notorious (1952)

July 29, 2020August 5, 2020 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Black-hearted romance and revenge

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1950s, film noir, fritz lang, marlene dietrich, western

Two Men in Manhattan (1959)

May 14, 2020 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

A cynical celebration of New York

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1950s, film noir, france, jean-pierre melville, new york

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