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2025-04-06

🧊 The Thing From Another World (1951) – Before Carpenter… There Was This

📡 A distress signal from the Arctic. A frozen alien lifeform. And the crew that makes the mistake of thawing it out… .

🎬 Did You Know? This film is often cited as one of the first great sci-fi horror hybrids—and it even inspired scenes in Halloween (1978), where the characters watch it on TV.

💬 Have you seen the original AND the remake? Let us know below! 👇

2024-09-28

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: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #crimemovie #filmnoir #crimemovies #HugoHaas #CleoMoore

2024-09-19

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: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

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

2024-08-13

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: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

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2024-06-23

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: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

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

2024-06-07

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: princeplanetmovies.blogspot.co

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #scifi #scifimovie scifimovies #sciencefiction #Bmovie #Bmovies

2024-06-04

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: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

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

2024-05-30

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: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

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

2024-05-23

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: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

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

2024-05-02

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: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #bmovie #bmovies #filmnoir #EdMcBain

2024-03-22

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: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

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

2024-01-20

Le 20 janvier 1950 sortait Gun Crazy (Le Démon des armes) de Joseph H. Lewis avec Peggy Cummins (Rendez-vous avec la peur, J. Tourneur) et John Dall (La Corde, Hitchcock), avec la musique de Victor Young (Johnny Guitare, les Voyages de Gulliver) et Dalton Trumbo le black-listé comme co-scénariste !

Un des plus grands films noirs US, au petit budget, devançant A bout de souffle (1960) ou Bonnie & Clyde (1967) par son esthétique et son propos. Amoralité, fétichisme et désespoir au programme 🤩

youtube.com/watch?v=6Er0V_x-pu

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2023-12-24

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: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

#1950smovie #1950smovies #50smovie #50smovies #classicmovie #classicmovie #goldenagehollywood #MamieVanDoren #crimemovie #crimemovies #Bmovie #Bmovies

2023-12-14

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: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

#1950smovie #1950smovies #50smovie #50smovies #classicmovie #classicmovie #goldenagehollywood #SandraDee #JamesDarren #Gidget #Surfmovie #surfmovies #romance #romancemovie #romancemovies #CliffRobertson

2023-11-14

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: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

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

2023-11-01

#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: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

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

2023-10-26

On October 26, 1955, Rebel Without a Cause debuted in New York City. Here’s some James Dean art!
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#RebelWithoutACause #NicholasRay #JamesDean #DramaFilm #ComingOfAgeFilm #ClassicFilm #1950s #OldHollywood #1950sMovies #NationalFilmRegistry #Art #PopArt #MovieArt #MovieHistory

Pen drawing of James Dean looking rebellious drawn on a torn receipt.
2023-10-08

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: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

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