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1950s Movies

The Bravados (1958)

October 13, 2020January 6, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Bravados movie storyline. Jim Douglass (Gregory Peck) has been tracking four men who he believes killed his wife six months ago. He arrives in a small town where he learns the men he’s been tracking are set to be hanged. They escape and Douglas leads a posse after the men. They commit further crimes, murdering and raping.

Ocean’s 11 (1960)

September 2, 2020July 2, 2023 - by greatmovies

Danny Ocean and his friend Jimmy Foster recruit their buddies to rob four of the biggest casinos in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve. The men are all known to one another and served in the Airborne during the war. The plan is to knock out the electricity supply to the city and for their electrical expert, Tony Bergdorf, to set the wiring so that the activation of the emergency generators would open the doors to all of the cashier’s offices.

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

July 27, 2019July 23, 2023 - by greatmovies

Based on Richard Condon’s novel, and adapted by George Axelrod. A complex, realistic depiction of brainwashing in a frightening, satirical psychological thriller. An American platoon fighting in the Korean War is captured and brainwashed by Communist North Koreans in Manchuria. Upon their return to the US, one of the veterans Major Bennett Marco (Sinatra) is haunted by recurring nightmares about their frightening incarceration.