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1950s Movies

Indiscreet (1958)

October 13, 2020January 6, 2023 - by greatmovies

Indiscreet movie storyline. Anna Kalman (Ingrid Bergman) is a London based actress. She has been unable to find love in her life. The reason why she came home early from a vacation to Majorca fits into that theme, as the man she met there and was initially attracted to ended up not being who she thought he was as a man. Upon her arrival home, she meets the suave Philip Adams (Cary Grant), a financier who is a work acquaintance of her brother-in-law, diplomat Alfred Munson ( Cecil Parker).

1950s Movies

Peyton Place (1957)

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Peyton Place movie storyline. It’s the pre-WWII era. Peyton Place is a small town in New England, whose leading adult citizens rule the town with their high moral standards, which they try to pass on to their offspring. The adults, especially those that wield power largely through their positions and/or through their wealth, will not tolerate anything they believe morally improper.

1950s Movies

Sayonara (1957)

October 2, 2020January 7, 2023 - by greatmovies

1951. US law forbids Japanese nationals from emigrating into the country, including the wives of military personnel posted in the Far East. As such, the US military has made it as difficult as possible for Far East posted servicemen to marry Japanese. Regardless, US Air Force Airman Joe Kelly, posted in Korea, intends to marry his Japanese girlfriend, Katsumi.

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Raintree County (1957)

October 2, 2020January 7, 2023 - by greatmovies

It’s the mid nineteenth century in Freehaven, Raintree County, Indiana. John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) has just graduated from high school at the top of his class, with a promising career as a writer. He is a romantic, principled, and an idealist, believing the story of the golden raintree – after which the county is named – growing somewhere, most likely in the county’s swamp area, searching for and locating it which would provide all the answers to one’s life questions.

1950s Movies

Island in the Sun (1957)

October 2, 2020September 28, 2023 - by greatmovies

Island in the Sun movie storyline. Set on a fictitious island in the Carribean during colonial British rule, it focuses on the life of a young charismatic and handsome black male with political aspirations. He finds himself confused on returning home when his romantic liaison with a white female tends to conflict with his political views.

1950s Movies

Room at the Top (1959)

September 25, 2020January 8, 2023 - by greatmovies

Room at the Top movie storyline. The English factory town is dreary but Joe Lampton has landed a job with a future. To have something to do at night he joins a theatrical group. His boss’s daughter Susan is playing ingenue roles on stage and in real life. She is attracted to Joe and Joe thinks about how much faster he will get ahead if he is the boss’s son-in-law.

1950s Movies

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

September 25, 2020January 8, 2023 - by greatmovies

Anatomy of a Murder movie storyline. Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), a lieutenant in the army, is arrested for the murder of a bartender, Barney Quill. He claims, in his defense, that the victim had raped and beaten up his wife Laura (Lee Remick). Although Laura supports her husband’s story, the local paper has reported that the police surgeon can find no evidence that she has been raped.

1950s Movies

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

September 25, 2020January 8, 2023 - by greatmovies

Suddenly, Last Summer storyline. Dr. John Cukrowicz, working at the state run Lion’s View Mental Institution, is experimenting with a radical new treatment for hopeless cases of lunacy: lobotomy.

1950s Movies / Roman Polanski Movies

A Generation (1955)

September 8, 2020July 26, 2023 - by greatmovies

A Generation movie storyline. 1942 in Nazi occupied Poland. Stach lives with his mother in a shanty town outside Warsaw. When he starts working as an apprentice in a small workshop in the nearby suburb, a middle-aged craftsman approaches him. The man is a secret Communist leader, known as Comrade Sekula.

1950s Movies

Guys and Dolls (1955)

September 8, 2020January 10, 2023 - by greatmovies

Guys and Dolls movie storyline. In New York, the smalltime gambler Nathan Detroit has been eloping from getting married with his girlfriend Adelaide for fourteen years. Nathan needs one thousand dollars in advance to rent a place for the crap game but neither he nor his friends Nicely-Nicely Johnson and Benny Southstreet can afford.